Christian Wicke is Assistant Professor in political history at Utrecht University.

Stefan Berger is Professor of Social History at Ruhr University Bochum and director of the Institute for Social Movements.

Jana Golombek is a doctoral student and a research associate at the German Mining Museum in Bochum and is working as a researcher and curator at the LWL-Industrial Museum in Dortmund.

Introduction: Industrial Heritage and Regional Identities (Christian Wicke) 1.Mining Memories: Big Pit and Industrial Heritage in South Wales (Leighton James) 2. Looking Back: Representations of the Industrial Past in Asturias (Rubén Vega) 3.Regional identity and industrial heritage in the mining area of Nord-Pas-de-Calais (Marion Fontaine)
4.A Post-Industrial Mindscape? The Mainstreaming and Touristification of Industrial Heritage in the Ruhr (Stefan Berger, Jana Golombek and Christian Wicke ) 5.Contested Heritage and Regional Identity in the Borsod Industrial Area in Hungary (Györgyi Németh) 6.Identity and Mining Heritage in Romania's Jiu Valley Coal Region (David Kideckel) 7. Regional Identity in the Making? Industrial Heritage and Regional Identity in the Coal Region of Northern Ky¿sh¿ in Japan (Regine Mathias) 8. 'There needs to be something there for people to remember': Industrial Heritage in Newcastle and the Hunter Valley, Australia (Erik Eklund) [...] Mills to Malls: Industrial Heritage and Regional Identity in Metropolitan Pittsburgh (Allen Dieterich-Ward) 10. Regions of heavy industry and their heritage - between identity politics and 'touristification': where to next? (Stefan Berger and Paul Pickering)