After discourse : things, affects, ethics / edited by Bjørnar Olsen, Mats Burström, Caitlin DeSilvey and Þóra Pétursdóttir.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Olsen, Bjørnar, editor.

Burström, Mats, editor.

DeSilvey, Caitlin, editor.

Þóra Pétursdóttir, 1978- editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Material culture--Philosophy.

Material culture.

Archaeology--Philosophy.

Archaeology.

Object (Philosophy).

Affect (Psychology).

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Bjørnar J. Olsen is Professor of Archaeology at the UiT - The Arctic University of Norway. His research focuses on Sm̀i archaeology, contemporary archaeology, memory, heritage and thing theory. Recent projects include three Norwegian Research Council-funded projects and he is currently the director of the Unruly Heritage project, which examines how the past effectively enacts itself through the undesirable legacies being passed on. Mats Burstrm̲ is Professor of Archaeology at Stockholm University, Sweden. His research is focused on contemporary archaeology and the interplay between material remains and memory. Publications within this field include studies of a Third Reich arena in Germany, a refugee camp in Sweden, family belongings hidden in the ground in Estonia and a Soviet nuclear missile site in Cuba. Caitlin DeSilvey isProfessor of Cultural Geography at the University of Exeter, where she is Associate Director for Transdiciplinary Researchat the Environment and Sustainability Institute. Her research explores the cultural significance of material change, with a particular focus on heritage contexts. She has published a number of edited books and journal articles; her monograph Curated Decay: Heritage Beyond Saving was published in 2017. Þóra Pétursdóttir is Associate Professor of Archaeology in the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History at the University of Oslo in Norway. Her research is predominantly focused on archaeology of the recent past, archaeological theory and practice and critical heritage studies, with field projects in Iceland, Norway and Russia.

Contents:

After discourse : an introduction / Bjørnar Olsen, Mats Burström, Caitlin DeSilvey and Þóra Pétursdóttir

Things : writing, nearing, knowing / Þóra Pétursdóttir

Writing things after discourse / Bjørnar Olsen & Þóra Pétursdóttir

Wild things / Levi R. Bryant

In the presence of things / Jeff Malpas

Thick speech and deep time in the Anthropocene / Robert Macfarlane

On the face of things / Torgeir Rinke Bangstad

Affects : sensing things / Mats Burström

The view from somewhere : liquid, geologic, and queer bodies / Denis Byrne

Stranded stones and settled species : affect and effects of ballast / Mats Burström

Out of the day, time and life : phenomenology and cavescapes / Hein B. Bjerck

Ruins of ruins : the aura of archaeological remains / Saphinaz-Amal Naguib

What remains? On material nostalgia / Alfredo González-Ruibal

Ethics : caring for things / Caitlin DeSilvey

Touching tactfully : the impossible community / Lucas Introna

Foundered : other objects and the ethics of indifference / Caitlin DeSilvey

Releasing the visual archive : on the ethics of destruction / Doug Bailey

Through the Jackpile-Paguate Uranium Mine / Christopher Witmore with Curtis L. Francisco

Towards a post-Anthropocentric ethic / Timothy James LeCain.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 11, 2021).

Other Format:

Print version: After discourse

ISBN:

9780429200014

0429200013

9780429576096

0429576099

9780429573989

0429573987

9780429578205

0429578202

Publisher Number:

40030354609

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