Mobilizing Meiji Nostalgia and Intentional Forgetting in Japan's World Heritage Promotion

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryoko Nakano
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
World Heritage ◽  
Japanese Government ◽  
Historical Narrative ◽  
Forced Labor ◽  
Central Position ◽  
Industrial Heritage ◽  
Meiji Japan ◽  
Conventional Procedure ◽  
Intentional Forgetting

AbstractThe language of shared heritage for humanity holds a central position within UNESCO's World Heritage. However, the “Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution” as World Heritage is primarily Japan's national project for globalizing a glorious historical narrative of Meiji Japan. While this national nostalgia matches the contemporary political discourse of overcoming domestic and international challenges in twenty-first century Japan, it also encourages people to forget alternative perspectives related to Korean memories of forced labor, colonialism, and war. Ministry officials and cultural council members expressed concerns over possible critical reactions from South Korea, but the Japanese government accelerated its campaign for UNESCO's World Heritage designation and achieved its objective in 2015. Why did the Japanese government take this step despite the alarming voices within Japan? This paper uncovers the process in which Japan's industrial heritage was constructed and promoted as World Heritage. It points to the role of Japanese and Western heritage experts in a newly established committee outside the conventional procedure for Japan's World Heritage nomination and concludes that Japan's heritage diplomacy pushes alternative historical narratives into oblivion.

Shifting borders of memory: Japan’s Industrial Heritage Information Centre

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward Boyle
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
World Heritage ◽  
World Heritage Site ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Industrial Heritage ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
Industrial Sites ◽  
Geographically Dispersed ◽  
Information Center

PurposeThis article examines the borders of memory inherent to a Japanese World Heritage site, and their significance for the 2020 opening of the Industrial Heritage Information Center in Tokyo. The Center was constructed to disseminate information regarding the widely dispersed “Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution”, which was recognized as a “serial site” by UNESCO in 2015. As with the original nomination, the opening of this Centre resulted in stringent protests from South Korea, who sought to have UNESCO consider revoking its original listing of these 23 Industrial Sites as collectively constituting the heritage of the world. This Center materializes a “border of memory” between Japan and South Korea that is the outcome of the displacement and re-siting of the heritage associated with Japan's Meiji Industrial Sites.Design/methodology/approachResearch material is derived from nomination documents, site visits, and newspaper reports in order to contextualize and analyse the disputes associated with this particular World Heritage nomination.FindingsThe paper points to how the borders of memory present at heritage sites may shift through contestation. Efforts to fix the meaning of heritage find themselves subverted by connections across such borders of memory.Originality/valueThe paper traces the process by which the geographically-dispersed “Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution” have been collectivized through UNESCO's recognition into a single “border of memory” between Japan and Korea, one which the Information Center subsequently succeeded in materializing and reproducing within Japan's national capital.

scholarly journals The Overview of the Conservation and Renewal of the Industrial Belgian Heritage as a Vector for Cultural Regeneration

Information ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Jiazhen Zhang ◽  
Jeremy Cenci ◽  
Vincent Becue ◽  
Sesil Koutra
Keyword(s):  
Textile Industry ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Service Industry ◽  
Industrial Heritage ◽  
Industrial History ◽  
Tourism Experience ◽  
Industrial Civilization ◽  
The City ◽  
Protection And Renewal ◽  
Cultural Regeneration

Industrial heritage reflects the development track of human production activities and witnessed the rise and fall of industrial civilization. As one of the earliest countries in the world to start the Industrial Revolution, Belgium has a rich industrial history. Over the past years, a set of industrial heritage renewal projects have emerged in Belgium in the process of urban regeneration. In this paper, we introduce the basic contents of the related terms of industrial heritage, examine the overall situation of protection and renewal in Belgium. The industrial heritage in Belgium shows its regional characteristics, each region has its representative industrial heritage types. In the Walloon region, it is the heavy industry. In Flanders, it is the textile industry. In Brussels, it is the service industry. The kinds of industrial heritages in Belgium are coordinate with each other. Industrial heritage tourism is developed, especially on eco-tourism, experience tourism. The industrial heritage in transportation and mining are the representative industrial heritages in Belgium. There are a set of numbers industrial heritages are still in running based on a successful reconstruction into industrial tourism projects. Due to the advanced experience in dealing with industrial heritage, the industrial heritage and the city live together harmoniously.

Coercion in the Cradle

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 186-201
Author(s):  
Marc W. Steinberg
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Classical Case ◽  
Forced Labor ◽  
Criminal Prosecution ◽  
Historical Case ◽  
Labor Control ◽  
Neoliberal Capitalism ◽  
Modern Capitalism ◽  
Local Courts

Important recent research highlights the role of forced labor in the expansion of neoliberal capitalism in the global South. In this article I make the case that coerced labor was central to the first industrial revolution, the classical case of Great Britain. I demonstrate that in an area known as the Black Country for its coal, steel, and related industries, master and servant laws allowed criminal prosecution of workers deemed problematic, to insure labor control in the workplace. Employers relied on these laws when they were unable to use machinery to embed control in the labor process, and when they had recourse to reliable local courts (or petty sessions), in which many were magistrates, so they could rely on convictions under summary jurisdictions for fines, damage payment, and incarceration. I conclude by suggesting that this particular historical case can reorient our perspective on labor coercion and the law across the long arc of modern capitalism.

Exhibiting Work in Germany—From Industrial Labour to (Industrial) Culture*

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 375-391 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabine Kritter
Keyword(s):  
Historical Narrative ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Industrial Heritage ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Museums ◽  
Industrial Culture ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Industrial Regions ◽  
Steel Industries

Abstract History museums in old industrial regions are important agents in the current debate on how we perceive work in our society. One of their key issues is how work built the region and how it changed in the context of deindustrialization. The article explores the depictions of work in the Ruhr Museum, which is the central regional history museum of the foremost region of heavy industry in Germany. It shows that with few exceptions the representations of the past in this museum include only images of standardized male industrial work, mainly in the coal and steel industries. Furthermore, it demonstrates that in the sections of the museum dedicated to the present, work has disappeared almost entirely from the representations, to be replaced with representations of culture, including industrial heritage, and lifestyles. In light of these findings the article argues that this way of presenting (and not presenting) work emphasizes the break between the past and the present. It homogenizes the historical narrative of work while making current work forms invisible and downplaying the continuing importance of the world of work. Instead, the museum tells a story of loss that requires compensation by culture.

scholarly journals Revitalization of Ottoman Industrial Heritage in Kemeraltı and Izmir History Project

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 119
Author(s):  
Yakup Egercioglu ◽  
Caglayan Deniz Kaplan
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Industrial Heritage ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
International Publishing ◽  
Pros And Cons ◽  
Open Access Article

In this study, conservation and renovation proposals for Hamdi Dalan Soap Factory, where industrial production was carried out at various times especially after the Industrial Revolution, have been developed within the scope of integrating it with its built environment, settlement identity and public/social life. The building is located in Izmir Historical Kemeraltı zone and due to the technological developments of the later period and production oriented economic policies, has lost its function and has been abandoned. This paper aims to discuss a process of participation, implemented and intended works whose pros and cons will be determined. To achieve this, Izmir Metropolitan Municipality has carried out a multidisciplinary "Izmir History Project".© 2016. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.Keywords: Revitalization; Izmir History Project; Hamdi Dalan Soap Factory; TARKEM

Reconsidering the World Heritage Potential of the Kinta Valley Post-Industrial Mining Landscape, Malaysia

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (11) ◽  
pp. 143
Author(s):  
Suriati Ahmad ◽  
David S. Jones ◽  
Nadiyanti Mat Nayan
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Cultural Landscapes ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
World Heritage ◽  
Industrial Heritage ◽  
International Publishing ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Industrial Mining ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Post Industrial

The distinct landscape of the Kinta Valley is undeniably unique in its capacity in narrating significant phases and processes in Peninsular Malaysia’s history and culture. While tin mining brought about massive development to the Valley’s landscape, evidenced in the making of modern Kinta and Kampar Districts today, and Malaysia generally, this paper focuses on the potential of Kinta Valley as a World Heritage Listed mining cultural landscape. The rich cultural tapestry that is evident today across the Valley’s mining lands provides a significant living platform to understanding and appreciating the diversity of Malaysia’s cultural landscapes and in particular, offering a new perspective about industrial heritage values to Malaysia’s domestic and international tourism catchments. Keywords: Cultural Landscape as Heritage; Heritage Conservation; Post-Industrial Mining Landscape; Kinta Valley.eISSN: 2398-4287 © 2019. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BYNC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.DOI: https://doi.org/10.21834/e-bpj.v4i11.1736

scholarly journals The Process of Establishing Islamic Education at Wali Barokah Islamic Boarding School in Kediri, Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 1827-1837
Author(s):  
Anis Humaidi Et al.
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Boarding School ◽  
Historical Narrative ◽  
Social Politics ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Political Movement ◽  
Narrative Study ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Transmission Of Knowledge ◽  
Historical Contribution

The process of forming an Islamic boarding school usually has a relationship with social politics. In the Industrial Revolution Era 4.0, there was less and less knowledge about the importance of studying the historical contribution of Islam in Indonesia. The purpose of this research is to analyze the background of the founding of Islamic teachings, movements and social politics in one of the Islamic boarding schools in Indonesia. This study uses the Historical Narrative Study approach. The results found that the Wali Barokah Islamic Boarding School stood behind the founder who tended to be a writer of scriptures and puritans. In addition, the teachings hold fast and, practice the Koran and Hadith, manqul in the transmission of knowledge. The curriculum is summarized in the Al-Manhaj al-Tarbiyah guidelines. On the other hand, the socio-political movement is as follows: Using a more gentle and open method of preaching, as an agent of da'i-da'iyah, in collaboration with outside institutions and with economic activities.

scholarly journals Termodinâmica e Revolução industrial: Uma abordagem por meio da História Cultural da Ciência

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 71-97
Author(s):  
Geilson Rodrigues Da Silva ◽  
Nádia Cristina Guimarães Errobidart
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Social Needs ◽  
Historical Narrative ◽  
Interest In Science ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Narrative Format ◽  
Didactic Material

ResumoO Ensino de Ciências ainda apresenta vertentes que prezam por práticas pautadas predominantemente na repetição e memorização de exercícios. Essa abordagem leva a dificuldades de aprendizagem dos discentes, bem como, o desinteresse pela ciência e pelo seu processo de construção. Uma das formas de romper com essa abordagem trata-se da utilização da História Cultural Científica no qual a ciência é vista como integrante da cultura humana. Assim sendo, objetivamos elaborar um material didático em formato de texto narrativo histórico que contemplasse a abordagem cultural científica da Termodinâmica pautados nas abordagens internalista e externalista. Para isso utilizamos da pesquisa bibliográfica em fontes secundárias, com o intuito de elucidar as contribuições culturais e científicas da Revolução Industrial para o desenvolvimento da Termodinâmica. Deste modo, foi possível elucidar as necessidades sociais que foram predominantes para o aperfeiçoamento das máquinas térmicas e a evolução dos processos técnicos para os científicos que culminaram nas leis da Termodinâmica. Diante disso, a visão internalista e externalista, foram abordadas de forma integradas permitindo que a narrativa histórica seja uma possibilidade de abordagem da História Cultural Científica.Palavras-chave: Estudo do Calor; História da Ciência; Máquinas Térmicas.AbstractThe teaching of science still presents aspects that emphasize practices based predominantly on repetition and memorization of exercises. This approach leads to learning difficulties of students, as well as the lack of interest in science and its construction process. One of the ways to break with this approach is the use of scientific Cultural history in which science is seen as a member of human culture. Thus, we aim to elaborate a didactic material in a historical narrative format that contemfaced the scientific cultural approach of thermodynamics based on internalist and externalist approaches. For this we use the bibliographic research in secondary sources, with the aim of eluciding the cultural and scientific contributions of the Industrial Revolution for the development of thermodynamics. Thus, it was possible to elucidates the social needs that were predominant for the improvement of the thermal machines and the evolution of the technical processes for the scientific ones that culminated in the laws of thermodynamics. In view of this, the internalist and Externalist vision, were approached in an integrated way allowing the historical narrative to be a possibility of approaching the scientific Cultural historyKeywords: Heat Study; History of Science; Industrial Revolution.

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