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Synopsis
Edensor (Manchester Metropolitan U., UK) is critical of the tendency to consign industrial ruins to the category of "wasteland," devoid of positive social, material, or aesthetic qualities. Instead, he wishes to reclaim them from their official and common sense negative depictions and "highlight the possibilities, effects and experiences which they can provide." He provides chapters that seek to detail their social uses (for accommodation, play, ecological practice, etc.), look at ruins as spaces of disorder that serve as a critique of highly regulated urban space, examine ways in which ruins can assist in questioning normative materialities of what is assigned as waste, and explore ruins as involuntary allegories of memory that stand in contrast to commodified and codified memory such as that found in the production of heritage. Distributed in the US by Palgrave Macmillan. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR