TY - CHAP
T1 - Where is 'Red Clydeside'? Industrial heritage, working-class culture and memory in the Glasgow region
AU - McIvor, Arthur
N1 - This chapter appears in a larger collection published by Berghahn Books (https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/BergerConstructing). McIvor, A. (2019). Where is 'Red Clydeside'? Industrial heritage, working-class culture and memory in the Glasgow region. In S. Berger (Ed.), Constructing Industrial Pasts: Industrial Heritage Making in Britain, the West and Post-Socialist Countries (Making Sense of History ). New York: Berghahn.
PY - 2019/9/1
Y1 - 2019/9/1
N2 - Glasgow and Clydeside’s industrial past, working-class culture and heritage have been the focus of struggle and contestation. Urban renewal and associated image rebranding from the 1980s has projected a sense of the city as a prospering, safe, welcoming, stylish place of hedonistic consumption, great architecture (McIntosh and Art Nouveau) and with a vibrant nightlife. In this rebranding, working-class culture and social life, industrial heritage, the ravages of deindustrialization and the struggles of ‘Red Clydeside’ have been marginalized. If Glasgow’s museums act as theatres of heritage, it is creative, artistic, technological, religious, scientific and industrial achievements and developments that now take centre stage. This chapter explores regional identity and representation in public history, critically examining the ways that museums, archives and the heritage industry have engaged with the history of work, working-class culture and radical politics of the industrial conurbation of Clydeside – the 40 miles or so centred on Glasgow, Scotland’s largest city – since 1980.
AB - Glasgow and Clydeside’s industrial past, working-class culture and heritage have been the focus of struggle and contestation. Urban renewal and associated image rebranding from the 1980s has projected a sense of the city as a prospering, safe, welcoming, stylish place of hedonistic consumption, great architecture (McIntosh and Art Nouveau) and with a vibrant nightlife. In this rebranding, working-class culture and social life, industrial heritage, the ravages of deindustrialization and the struggles of ‘Red Clydeside’ have been marginalized. If Glasgow’s museums act as theatres of heritage, it is creative, artistic, technological, religious, scientific and industrial achievements and developments that now take centre stage. This chapter explores regional identity and representation in public history, critically examining the ways that museums, archives and the heritage industry have engaged with the history of work, working-class culture and radical politics of the industrial conurbation of Clydeside – the 40 miles or so centred on Glasgow, Scotland’s largest city – since 1980.
KW - Glasgow
KW - working-class culture
KW - rebranding
KW - Red Clydeside
KW - regional identity
UR - https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/BergerConstructing
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9781789202908
SN - 9781789202915
T3 - Making Sense of History
BT - Constructing Industrial Pasts
A2 - Berger, Stefan
CY - New York
ER -