Urban trauma in the ruins of industrial culture: Miners’ Welfares of the Nottinghamshire coalfield, UK

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The focus of this paper is bodily-material dynamics of urban trauma in ruins of Miners’ Welfare institutions in the Nottinghamshire coalfield, UK. Emergent geographical work on urban trauma has explored how attritional ‘slow’ violence enacts in space and time, emphasising the complexities of spatiotemporal processes of collective trauma. Processual theorisations in urban trauma literature are prefigured by those in recent ruins research where there is a retheorisation from ruin as object to ruins contingent of spatiotemporal processes of ruination. Bringing recent literatures on urban trauma into closer dialogue with ruins research, this paper makes a methodological contribution to bodily-material dynamics of urban trauma in spaces of ruination. Contributing to theoretical and empirical debates on industrial ruins and ruination, I advance two interrelated methodological positions: archival research and critically reflexive embodied ethnographies. Following a tracing of their development, I situate Miners’ Welfares within theorisations of urban trauma and ruin(ation) before proposing a pluralistic and processual methodological framework. The utility of this framework is then enhanced by an empirical section arguing that bodily-material dynamics suggest moments of ‘fast violence’ imbricate the slow violence of ruination to constitute how urban trauma is textured into, and evoked by, the decline of Miners’ Welfares.

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Emery, J. (2022). Urban trauma in the ruins of industrial culture: Miners’ Welfares of the Nottinghamshire coalfield, UK. Social and Cultural Geography, 23(5), 639–659. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2020.1809011

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