Emotions and Industrial Fishing Heritage in Quebec’s Lower North Shore: An Archaeological Ethnography Approach

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

In Quebec’s Lower North Shore, the village of Rivière-Saint-Paul is on the periphery of the world’s major industrial centers. Part of a globalized world defined by industrial and capitalist expansion since the nineteenth century, its maritime spaces concentrated regional labor forces and transformed resources wrested from the sea, such as cod, seals, and whales. The local descendant community firmly bases its sense of place and history on this period of industrial activities. I examine nostalgia as an emotion that fosters the local history of the fishing industry and the archaeological imagination associated with its ruins. Within the current deindustrialized context, nostalgia becomes a resource and a commodity, a new form of capitalist extractivism. Through an archaeological ethnography approach, I examine industrial heritage and the role that nostalgia and imagination, encouraged by a collaborative digital archaeological project, play in the persistent resonance of the past in the present.

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• Society for Historical Archaeology 2024   •
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