The new nomadic age : archaeologies of forced and undocumented migration / edited by Yannis Hamilakis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Hamilakis, Yannis, 1966- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Forced migration.

Refugees.

Social archaeology.

Physical Description:

xiv, 253 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Sheffield, UK ; Bristol, CT : Equinox Publishing Ltd, 2018.

Summary:

"It can be suggested that today we live in a new nomadic age, an age of global movement and migration. For the majority of people on earth, however, especially from the global south, crossing national borders and moving from the global south to the global north is risky, perilous, often lethal. Many are forced or compelled to migrate due to war, persecution, or the structural violence of poverty and deprivation. The phenomenon of forced and undocumented migration is one of the defining features of our era. And while the topic is at the centre of attention and study in many scholarly fields, the materiality of the phenomenon and its sensorial and mnemonic dimensions are barely understood and analysed. In this regard, contemporary archaeology can make an immense contribution. This book, the first archaeological anthology on the topic, takes up the challenge and explores the diverse intellectual, methodological, ethical, and political frameworks for an archaeology of forced and undocumented migration in the present. Matters of historical depth, theory, method, ethics and politics as well as heritage value and public representation are investigated and analysed, adopting a variety of perspectives. The book contains both short reflections and more substantive treatments and case studies from around the world, from the Mexico-USA border to Australia, and utilizes a diversity of narrative formats, including several photographic essays"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Archaeologies of forced and undocumented migration / Yannis Hamilakis

The 1947 partition of India and Pakistan : migration, material landscapes, and the making of nations / Erin P Riggs, Zahida Rehman Jat

"We Palestinian Refugees" : heritage rites and/as the clothing of bare life : reconfiguring paradox, obligation, and imperative in Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan / Beverley Butler, Fatima Al-Nammari

Surveilling surveillance : countermapping undocumented migration in the USA-Mexico borderlands / Haeden Eli Stewart, Ian Osterreicher, Cameron Gokee, Jason De Leon

Place making in non-places : migrant graffiti in rural highway box culverts / Gabriella Soto

The materiality of the state of exception : components of the experience of deportation from the United States / Agnieszka Radziwinowiczówna

Lessons from the Bakken Oil Patch / William Caraher, Bret Weber, Richard Rothaus

Empty migrant rooms : an anthropology of absence through the camera lens / Eckehard Pistrick, Florian Bachmeier

If place remotely matters : camped in Greece's contingent countryside / Kostis Kourelis

Orange life jackets : materiality and narration in Lesvos, one year after the eruption of the "refugee crisis" / George Tyrikos-Ergas

Interrupted journeys : drawings by refugees at the Kara Tepe Camp, Lesvos, Greece / Angela Maria Arbelaez Arbelaez, Edward Mulholland

Abandoned refugee vehicles "in the middle of nowhere" : reflections on the global refugee crisis from the northern margins of Europe / Oula Ilari Seitsonen, Vesa-Pekka Herva, Mika Kunnari

The garden of refugees / Rui Gomes Coelho

Reframing the Lampedusa Cross : the British Museum's display of the Mediterranean migrant crisis / Morgan Lynn Breene

What anchors the Tu Do? / Denis Byrne

"Heritage on exile" : reflecting on the roles and responsibilities of heritage organizations towards those affected by forced migration / John Schofield

Digging up sounds, images and words together in Athens : conversations with Kurosh Dadgar (Hossein Shabani) and Saeid Ghasemi on refugee experiences and self-representation through art and heritage management / Christina Thomopoulos, Kurosh Dadgar, Esra Dogan, Saeid Ghasemi, Sophia Thomopoulos

Commentary : belonging and belongings : on migrant and nomadic heritages in and for the Anthropocene / Rodney Harrison, Staffan Appelgren, Anna Bohlin

Commentary : nomadic ethics / Elisabeth Kirtsoglou

Commentary : whither the history of forced and undocumented migration? Notes for genealogical and comparative approaches / Parker VanValkenburgh.

Notes:

"Introduction and chapters 1 to 16 first published in Volume 3.2 of the Journal of Contemporary Archaeology"--Verso title page.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: New nomadic age.

ISBN:

9781781797112

1781797110

OCLC:

1007563386