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Valuing industrial heritage in the Anthropocene

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Published in TICCIH Bulletin nr 69, 3rd quarter 2015 On the 5th of July, 2015, UNESCO has inscribed Rjukan-Notodden Industrial Heritage Site on the World Heritage list. This represents great opportunities for the local communities of Rjukan and Notodden, located in the interior southern part of Norway. According to the proposal, the site is a unique expression of new industrial developments during the second industrial revolution, based in hydroelectric power production, industry, transport system and urban communities. The development of industry here depended however totally on the presence on the water landscape, so that the cultural and physical features of landscape here is a total production system (Birkeland 2015). How are we to value industrial heritage in the Anthropocene? The Anthropocene refers to the human-dominated, geological epoch that we are now living in. It is a concept that covers the last 250 years’ immense human impact on the earth where global warming, envi...
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The multivocality of Rjukanfossen: What is to be sustained in World Heritage?

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Water is life, water is reciprocity, we are all water, but do we know how to live well with water?  Water appear many places in the blog and in my research over the past twenty years. Of course, I was engaging with social and cultural meanings of water in Rjukan and Tinn municipality, a post-industrial region in the interior south of Norway. My latest publication is a chapter I have written to raise awareness of the multivocality of falling water - the waters of Rjukan Water Falls in Norway. The chapter was written for an edited book, Multivocality in World Heritage: Rjukan-Notodden Industrial Heritage Site, published by Routledge, 2025, and edited by me and my very good colleagues Steffen Johannessen, Guro Nordby and Benjamin Richards.  I would like to share some from the chapter introduction (and please buy the book, or at least read the book which will be out in Open Access as well): When visiting the official UNESCO website for Rjukan-Notodden Industrial Heritage Site...
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New book: Cultural sustainability and the nature-culture interface

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New book: Cultural sustainability and the nature-culture interface: Livelihoods, policies, and Methodologies (Routledge, 2018), edited by Inger Birkeland, Constanza Parra, Rob Burton and Katriina Soini  Understanding how culture can act as a resource to promote sustainability, rather than a barrier, is the key to the development of cultural sustainability. This book explores the interfaces between nature and culture through the perspective of cultural sustainability. A cultural perspective on environmental sustainability enables a renewal of sustainability discourse and practices across rural and urban landscapes, natural and cultural systems, stressing heterogeneity and complexity. The book focuses on the nature-culture interface conceptualised as a place where experiences, practices, policies, ideas and knowledge meet, are negotiated, discussed and resolved. Rather than looking for lost unities, or an imaginary view of harmonious relationships between humans and nature based...
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