Deploying Heritage to Solve Today’s Dilemmas: The Swedes of Rockford Illinois

Lynne Marie Dearborn

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-13183-2_6

Deploying Heritage to Solve Today’s Dilemmas: The Swedes of Rockford Illinois

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Abstract

Owing in part to its "blue-collar" past, economic disinvestment, and aging industrial infrastructure, Rockford Illinois, has earned the title "America’s Third Most Miserable City." However, within this context, there are a number of promising enterprises, grounded in Rockford’s resilient tangible and intangible Swedish heritage, that are being consciously and unconsciously deployed to reshape social, political, and economic realities in the city. Building on Yúdice’s framework of "culture-as-a resource," this chapter explores these contemporary uses of heritage to address Rockford’s current economic dilemmas and discusses ways that this heritage is managed with respect to ethnic and racial boundaries that remain a part of the city’s landscape.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Encounters with Popular Pasts
Subtitle of host publication	Cultural Heritage and Popular Culture
Editors	Mike Robinson, Helaine Silverman
Publisher	Springer
Pages	97-114
Number of pages	18
ISBN (Electronic)	9783319131832
ISBN (Print)	9783319131825
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13183-2_6
State	Published - Jan 1 2015

Keywords

Community development
Cultural icons
Entrepreneurs
Immigrant heritage
Industrial heritage

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General Social Sciences

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