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Stories from London's Docklands: Heritage Encounters, Deindustrialization, and the End of Empire
Journal of British Studies ( IF 0.764 ) Pub Date : 2022-10-03 , DOI: 10.1017/jbr.2022.140
Finn Gleeson

This article analyzes the activism of Eastside Community Heritage in London's Docklands, circa 1997 to 2003, following its establishment by community activists concerned by the British National Party's electoral success in the postindustrial area. Eastside attributed local racism to deindustrialization and unaccountable, exclusionary redevelopment. Aiming to recenter solidarity against economic injustice—thereby countering racism—and to challenge redevelopers’ neglect, the group published booklets celebrating the area's working-class past. But the project's archived oral histories show that residents remembered an area forged by different ideals. Their nostalgia was for participation in empire through the docks as much as for an idealized working-class community. Residents rarely distinguished between the interconnected losses of imperial purpose and social cohesion. I frame these tensions as a heritage encounters, making three key arguments. First, memories of youth in the imperial metropole informed residents’ perceptions of the late twentieth-century nation, despite recent scholarly efforts to separate them temporally and conceptually. Second, contrary to their predominance within histories of postwar class identity, deindustrialization and urban change were popularly understood within a larger, postimperial narrative of local and national decline. Finally, a close reading of this project offers a vivid case study into the fragility of British multiculturalism in the 1990s and 2000s.



中文翻译:

伦敦码头区的故事:遗产遭遇、去工业化和帝国的终结

本文分析了大约 1997 年至 2003 年伦敦码头区东区社区遗产的行动主义,该行动主义是由关注英国国家党在后工业区的选举成功的社区活动家建立的。东区将地方种族主义归因于去工业化和不负责任的排他性重建。为了最近团结起来反对经济不公正——从而反对种族主义——并挑战重建者的忽视,该组织出版了庆祝该地区工人阶级过去的小册子。但该项目存档的口述历史表明,居民记得这个由不同理想打造的地区。他们的怀旧是通过码头参与帝国以及理想化的工人阶级社区。居民很少区分帝国目标和社会凝聚力相互关联的损失。我将这些紧张局势视为遗产遭遇,提出三个关键论点。首先,帝国大都市的青年记忆影响了居民对 20 世纪晚期国家的看法,尽管最近的学术努力在时间和概念上将它们分开。其次,与它们在战后阶级身份历史中的主导地位相反,去工业化和城市变革在地方和国家衰落的更大的后帝国叙事中被普遍理解。最后,仔细阅读该项目提供了一个生动的案例研究,以了解 1990 年代和 2000 年代英国多元文化主义的脆弱性。帝国大都市的青年记忆影响了居民对 20 世纪晚期国家的看法,尽管最近的学术努力在时间上和概念上将它们分开。其次,与它们在战后阶级身份历史中的主导地位相反,去工业化和城市变革在地方和国家衰落的更大的后帝国叙事中被普遍理解。最后,仔细阅读该项目提供了一个生动的案例研究,以了解 1990 年代和 2000 年代英国多元文化主义的脆弱性。帝国大都市的青年记忆影响了居民对 20 世纪晚期国家的看法,尽管最近的学术努力在时间上和概念上将它们分开。其次,与它们在战后阶级身份历史中的主导地位相反,去工业化和城市变革在地方和国家衰落的更大的后帝国叙事中被普遍理解。最后,仔细阅读该项目提供了一个生动的案例研究,以了解 1990 年代和 2000 年代英国多元文化主义的脆弱性。去工业化和城市变化在地方和国家衰落的更大的后帝国主义叙事中得到了普遍理解。最后,仔细阅读该项目提供了一个生动的案例研究,以了解 1990 年代和 2000 年代英国多元文化主义的脆弱性。去工业化和城市变化在地方和国家衰落的更大的后帝国主义叙事中得到了普遍理解。最后,仔细阅读该项目提供了一个生动的案例研究,以了解 1990 年代和 2000 年代英国多元文化主义的脆弱性。

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