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Post-Industrial Landscape Scars

Part of the Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9781137025999

ISBN: 978-1-349-43906-5

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Nov 10, 2015

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Chapter 1Introduction

Storm, Anna

Pages: 1 –19

[I am sure you have seen them—post-industrial landscape scars. It might be a mountain irrevocably turned into an open-pit mine, surrounded by slag heaps. It could be polluted ground, abandoned, overgrown, and perhaps forgotten. It may be a dilapidated factory in a fading mono-industrial town, or...
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Chapter 2Unstable Mountain

Storm, Anna

Pages: 21 –45

[Ore is an economic term. Rock is labeled ore only if it is worth mining, which depends on the market price in combination with the costs for mining and processing. In many mining towns, the economic rationale is generally predominant, for the mining companies, for the miners, and for the way the...
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Chapter 3Distance of Fear

Storm, Anna

Pages: 47 –73

[The closer to a hazardous industrial enterprise you live, the less afraid you are. Fear increases with geographical distance, so that from afar monstrous and even mythical characteristics are sometimes ascribed to an industrial activity. I posit that this paradoxical rule holds at least as long...
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Chapter 4Lost Utopia

Storm, Anna

Pages: 75 –99

[The dream of the Soviet paradise had many components. Men and women were to be equal, and different duties were to represent the same value. Work and leisure were to be smoothly combined and the living environment to comprise both the city and the countryside. During the Soviet era, new...
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Chapter 5Industrial Nature

Storm, Anna

Pages: 101 –126

[Abandonment is often followed by overgrowing. When an industrial plant is abandoned, the growing plants bear witness to remaining substances in the ground—leftovers from industrial production. Following pioneering species, the industrial site will soon become marked by shrubs and later by trees,...
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Chapter 6Enduring Spirit

Storm, Anna

Pages: 127 –151

[Company towns are defined by the close connection between a company and a town. The company constitutes the only major employer, but the relation often extends much further. If the company is owned by an industrialist family, the family members are key figures in the town, and the company...
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Chapter 7Prospective Scars Unfolding

Storm, Anna

Pages: 153 –158

[The five places and stories we have encountered in this book each deploy one critical aspect of the post-industrial landscape scar. The scars have come into view as unstable and sometimes in motion, they are defined by different geographical scales and perceived distances, they tell of losses...

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