Ruin memories : materiality, aesthetics and the archaeology of the recent past /
"Since the 19th century, mass-production, consumerism and cycles of material replacement have accelerated; increasingly larger amounts of things are increasingly rapidly victimized and made redundant. At the same time processes of destruction have immensely intensified, although largely overloo...
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York :
Routledge,
2014
London ; New York : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2014 |
| Series: | Archaeological orientations
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. An archaeology of ruins / Þóra Pétursdóttir and Bjørnar Olsen
- Things, ethics and heritage. Trusted vagueness: the language of things and the order of incompleteness / Dag T. Andersson
- Ethics and flesh: being touched by the otherness of things / Luca D. Introna
- The ontology of absence: uniting materialist and ecological interpretations at an abandoned open-pit copper mine / Timothy J. LeCain
- Palliative curation: art and entropy on Orford Ness / Caitlin DeSilvey
- Industrial heritage and the ideal of presence / Torgeir R. Bangstad
- Material memory. My father's things / Hein B. Bjerck
- In ruins old and new: cultivating threat on a former hacienda, Yucatán / Jason Ramsey
- Treasured memories: an anecdotal mapping of wartime caches in Estonia / Mats Burström
- Sværholt: recovered memories from a POW camp in the far north / Bjønar Olsen and Christopher Witmore
- Ruins, art, attraction. The affordances and potentialities of derelict urban spaces / Joanne Hudson
- Which ruins do we valorize? a visual calibration curve for the Balkan past / Douglass Bailey
- Children in ruins: bombsites as playgrounds in Second World War Britain / Gabriel Moshenska
- Silent power #1: Trondheim Harbour, Norway 2012 / Elin Andreassen
- Invented revelation / Aðalsteinn Ásberg Sigurðsson and Nökkvi Elíasson
- Abandonment. No man's land: the ontology of a space left over / Dag T. Andersson
- Conduits of dispersal: dematerializing an early twentieth-century village in Iceland / Gavin Lucas
- Manifestations of conflict in a post-ceasefire state: material, memory and meaning in contemporary Northern Ireland / Laura McAtackney
- Things out-of-hand: the aesthetics of abandonment / Þóra Pétursdóttir
- Archaeologies of the recent past. Returning to where we have never been: excavating the ruins of modernity / Alfredo González-Ruibal
- Borders in ruin / Anna McWilliams
- Ruins of the weather war: studying the material remains of Allied and Wehrmacht activities in Northeast Greenland / Jens F. Jensen and Tilo Krause
- Materialising Skatås--archaeology of a Second World War refugee camp in Sweden / Maria Persson
- Object-oriented metrologies of care and the proximate ruin of building 500 / Timothy Webmoor