The "social life" of industrial ruins : a case study of Hashima Island

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dc.contributor.advisorShepherd, Nicken_ZA
dc.contributor.authorHong, Insooen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2016-06-21T09:20:56Z
dc.date.available2016-06-21T09:20:56Z
dc.date.issued2015en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThe inscription of a strange-looking industrial site- coalmine on Hashima- on the World Heritage Site has proved to be the most publicly contested debate of heritage making work between Japan and Korea The debate about this place brings up poignant questions with regard to not only the significance of this heritage, but also the subsequent use of this island. The failure of reconciliation between countries especially, but also of reparation, restitution since the end of the Second World War and the issues of identity and memory have been brought to the fore. This paper seeks to challenge the dominant modes of heritage making and, in so doing, offer an analysis of influences from political, social and economic factors or an improved understanding of the dynamics of capitalistic production expansion. The origin and transformation of tradition is invoked in attempts to explain the pervasiveness and power of historical temporality and continuity. A critical approach to canonisation is employed whereby the choice of heritage resources is done in a more limited and cogent manner. It is argued that currently heritage-making functions as both value distribution and intentional perception for a people in a nation. Above all, the social life of those living in industrial ruins is positioned in the new perspective that as heritage resources they cannot be separated from capitalistic production and world history. Following from this, it is said that the temporality and spatiality of ruins need a political, social and economic debate in which the myths of the nation are forged, transmitted, negotiated and reconstructed constantly. Through employing these ideas, one can relate the thematic approach of heritage selection to commodification, collective memory, capitalism and nationalism in a theoretical and analytical way.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationHong, I. (2015). <i>The "social life" of industrial ruins : a case study of Hashima Island</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,African Studies. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20048en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationHong, Insoo. <i>"The "social life" of industrial ruins : a case study of Hashima Island."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,African Studies, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20048en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationHong, I. 2015. The "social life" of industrial ruins : a case study of Hashima Island. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Hong, Insoo AB - The inscription of a strange-looking industrial site- coalmine on Hashima- on the World Heritage Site has proved to be the most publicly contested debate of heritage making work between Japan and Korea The debate about this place brings up poignant questions with regard to not only the significance of this heritage, but also the subsequent use of this island. The failure of reconciliation between countries especially, but also of reparation, restitution since the end of the Second World War and the issues of identity and memory have been brought to the fore. This paper seeks to challenge the dominant modes of heritage making and, in so doing, offer an analysis of influences from political, social and economic factors or an improved understanding of the dynamics of capitalistic production expansion. The origin and transformation of tradition is invoked in attempts to explain the pervasiveness and power of historical temporality and continuity. A critical approach to canonisation is employed whereby the choice of heritage resources is done in a more limited and cogent manner. It is argued that currently heritage-making functions as both value distribution and intentional perception for a people in a nation. Above all, the social life of those living in industrial ruins is positioned in the new perspective that as heritage resources they cannot be separated from capitalistic production and world history. Following from this, it is said that the temporality and spatiality of ruins need a political, social and economic debate in which the myths of the nation are forged, transmitted, negotiated and reconstructed constantly. Through employing these ideas, one can relate the thematic approach of heritage selection to commodification, collective memory, capitalism and nationalism in a theoretical and analytical way. DA - 2015 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2015 T1 - The "social life" of industrial ruins : a case study of Hashima Island TI - The "social life" of industrial ruins : a case study of Hashima Island UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20048 ER - en_ZA
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dc.identifier.vancouvercitationHong I. The "social life" of industrial ruins : a case study of Hashima Island. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,African Studies, 2015 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20048en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentAfrican Studiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherHeritage and Public Cultureen_ZA
dc.titleThe "social life" of industrial ruins : a case study of Hashima Islanden_ZA
dc.typeMaster Thesis
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