Unruly Heritage: Archaeologies of the Anthropocene

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Synopsis
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.
Copyright:
2025

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Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9781350426382
Related ISBNs:
9781350426405, 9781350426368, 9781350426399, 9781350426375
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing
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Copyrighted By:
Bjørnar Julius Olsen, Stein Farstadvoll, Geneviève Godin & Contributors
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Outdoors and Nature, Social Studies, Earth Sciences, Politics and Government
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
Bjørnar Julius Olsen
Edited by:
Stein Farstadvoll
Edited by:
Geneviève Godin

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