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This study argues that Critical Heritage Studies can occupy the discursive gap between the art historical accounts of the event [Deller’s Battle of Orgreave, 2001] and the objections to its ethical and authorial frame posited by social history. Deller’s project’s opposition to AHD and its privileging of ‘feel good’ histories marks out the project as symptomatic of new critical heritage forms. With its open-ended dialogic, anti-nostalgic elevation of ongoing emotional trauma and emphasis on keeping wounds open rather than sympathetic reconciliation, this project – on paper at least – demands consideration from new perspectives in working class intangible heritage (Russo & Linkon, 2005; Robertson, 2008; West, 2010).

Cite: Juliff T, 'The Battle of Orgreave (1984)' Emotion, Affective Practices, and the Past in the Present, ed LJ Smith et. al. (2018) pp.85-101

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