This volume brings together around thirty texts conceived using tools from History, Sociology, Geography, Art History, Philology... and anchored in experiences referring mainly to Asturias, but also to the Basque Country, Catalonia, Madrid , in Spain, as well as contributions from Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Italy, the United Kingdom, France and Germany. It seeks to relate material aspects with intangible ones, explore narratives and collective memories and incorporate cultural and artistic manifestations as part of the same process. Relate an industrial past to possible post-industrial futures and see to what extent it constitutes an asset in terms of collective identities, cultural heritage and material and immaterial resources or whether it contains a traumatic nature.
