Unruly Heritage : Archaeologies of the Anthropocene / edited by Bjørnar Julius Olsen, Stein Farstadvoll, and Geneviève Godin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Farstadvoll, Stein, editor.

Godin, Geneviève, editor.

Olsen, Bjørnar Julius, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Archaeology--Philosophy.

Archaeology.

Cultural property.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 288 pages.) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2024.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024.

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

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 haunt us; legacies that have become so conspicuously manifest that they are claimed as 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.-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Halftitle page

Also available from Bloomsbury

Title page

Copyright page

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

CONTRIBUTORS

PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

INTRODUCING UNRULINESS: NOTES ON HERITAGE IN THE ANTHROPOCENE

Approaches

Articulations

Locating the Project

Drift Matter

Toxic Heritage

Sticky Pasts

Releasing Heritage

The Unruly

Unruliness as Expansion

Unruliness as Democratization

Contributions to the Volume

Part I: The Matter of Unruliness

Part II: Technology and Ecological Becomings

Part III: Aftermaths and Unruly Legacies

Postscript Reflections

References

PART I THE MATTER OF UNRULINESS

CHAPTER 1 AN ETHICS OF THE WILD

Civilized Things: Domestic Things and Wild Things

Where It Was . . . Generated by AI.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.

ISBN:

9781350426382 (electronic book)

9781350426375

9781350426399

1350426377

9781350426382

1350426385

OCLC:

1451797267