This study critically examines the transformation of industrial chimneys into monuments within Barcelona's deindustrializing urban landscapes. Since the 1970s, redevelopment contexts and reimaging strategies have led to the conservation of industrial chimneys as public art and historic monuments. This paper explores the intersection of urban memory, heritage, and transformation in Barcelona, highlighting the absence of a coherent ‘Authorized Heritage Discourse’ and the resulting ambiguity in the meaning of these monuments. Analyzing this unique heritage practice, the study considers its impact on historic memory and working-class identity within the city's urban fabric. The research situates chimney-monuments within broader discussions on postindustrial redevelopment, urban design, heritage conservation, and public memory amidst deindustrialization. By examining the symbolic and material dimensions of industrial chimneys within Barcelona's political-economic shifts and contemporary social movements, the paper unpacks their polysemic meanings. This analysis contributes to local debates and reflects broader European trends. The study questions how these monuments are integrated into working-class memory politics and shifting heritage regimes. Recognizing that historic monuments are dynamic material and cultural processes subject to ongoing resignification, the paper concludes with a discussion on the potential roles of insurgent heritage practices in connecting past and present social struggles.

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工业方尖碑：工人阶级的记忆和巴塞罗那的烟囱纪念碑


本研究批判性地研究了在巴塞罗那去工业化城市景观中将工业烟囱转变为纪念碑的过程。自 1970 年代以来，重建环境和重新成像策略导致工业烟囱作为公共艺术和历史古迹得到保护。本文探讨了巴塞罗那城市记忆、遗产和转型的交叉点，强调了缺乏连贯的“授权遗产话语”以及由此产生的这些纪念碑含义的模糊性。通过分析这种独特的遗产实践，该研究考虑了它对城市结构中历史记忆和工人阶级身份的影响。该研究将烟囱纪念碑置于对后工业化重建、城市设计、遗产保护和去工业化中的公共记忆的更广泛讨论中。通过研究巴塞罗那政治经济转型和当代社会运动中工业烟囱的象征和物质维度，本文解开了它们的多义含义。这种分析有助于当地的辩论，并反映了更广泛的欧洲趋势。该研究质疑这些纪念碑如何融入工人阶级的记忆政治和不断变化的遗产制度。认识到历史古迹是动态的物质和文化过程，需要不断被重新考虑，本文最后讨论了叛逆遗产实践在连接过去和现在的社会斗争中的潜在作用。