Unruly Heritage
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Unruly Heritage

Archaeologies of the Anthropocene

  1. 304 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Unruly Heritage

Archaeologies of the Anthropocene

About this book

Heritage is almost univocally conceived of as valuable and good, something we care for and preserve for ourselves and future generations. Although traditionally associated with the unique and monumental, heritage has over the last decades been broadened in response to claims to incorporate more diverse and globally representative legacies. While such claims are of course welcome, they do not embrace the bulging unruly and obnoxious legacies that now haunts us; legacies that have become so conspicuously manifest that they are claimed diagnostic of a new epoch, the Anthropocene. This book targets this exclusion. It claims that the current 'clash' between prevailing conceptions of heritage as something confined, wished for and thus worth saving, and the unruly legacies ignoring such work of purification, urges a reconsideration of strategies and rationales for how to 'deal with' heritage. Through multidisciplinary approaches, ranging from archaeology and heritage studies to philosophy and environmental politics, the contributions bring heritage into dialogue with a wide range of topics including industrialisation, material profusion, modernist architectural material, coastal reclamations, barbed wire, and naval mines. The result is a volume that profoundly challenges traditional understandings of heritage as an exclusive reserve of things selected and managed by us.

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Yes, you can access Unruly Heritage by Bjørnar Julius Olsen, Stein Farstadvoll, Geneviève Godin, Bjørnar Julius Olsen,Stein Farstadvoll,Geneviève Godin in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Environment & Energy Policy. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title Page
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. List of Contributors
  8. Preface and Acknowledgements
  9. Introducing Unruliness: Notes on Heritage in the Anthropocene
  10. PART I THE MATTER OF UNRULINESS
  11. 1 An Ethics of the Wild
  12. 2 Picturing Ghosts
  13. 3 Artificting Archaeology: Joanna Rajkowska’s Aquarius (2009) and Robert Kuśmirowski’s The Graduation Tower (2014)
  14. 4 Heritage Lost and Found: Cruel Optimism and Climate Futures
  15. 5 In Praise of What There Is
  16. PART II TECHNOLOGY AND ECOLOGICAL BECOMINGS
  17. 6 The Buick at the End of the World: Nature, Things and the Hidden Legacies of the Century of Automobility
  18. 7 Things of the Anthropocene: The Unruly Heritage of Coastal Reclamations in Japan
  19. 8 Between Use and Abandonment: An Archaeology of Mothballing
  20. 9 Concrete and the Contemporary
  21. PART III AFTERMATHS AND UNRULY LEGACIES
  22. 10 Retouching the Bronze Age: Unruly Rock Art
  23. 11 Managing Scars of Terror in Norway’s Government Quarter and the Shifting Memory Values of VG’s Newspaper Panel
  24. 12 Unruly Monsters: Submarine Mines in the Baltic Region
  25. 13 Wayward Ruins: Manifestations of Unruliness in and of a German Second World War Luftwaffe Storage Camp in Pasvik / Paččvei Valley
  26. Postscript Reflections: Archaeological Imaginations – Unruly Heritage Lessons for the Anthropocene
  27. Index
  28. Copyright