Heritage Ecologies presents an ecological understanding of heritage that furthers a concern for how its making and unmaking always involves a wide range of human and other-than-human actors.
Recognizing the entangled nature-cultures of heritage is essential in the Anthropocene era, where uncertainty and rapid environmental change force us to recast common conceptions of inheritance and to envision new strategies for preservation. Heritage sites are meant to be open and shared spaces, and a recurring argument in the cases presented here is that this openness inevitably also overrides our selections, orders and appreciations. Through a diverse range of case studies, the chapters collected in this book aim to explore the affects and memories engendered by diverse heritage ecologies where humans are neither the sole makers nor the only inheritors. The common call is that the experiential, perceptive and informational plenitude enabled through contributions of other-than-human actors is key to an ecological rethinking of heritage in the twenty-first century.
Heritage Ecologies is unique in bringing heritage studies into closer proximity with a wide variety of non-representational and object-oriented theories and is an important volume for students and researchers in archaeology and heritage studies.
Edited by:
Torgeir Rinke Bangstad,
Þóra Pétursdóttir
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 246mm,
Width: 174mm,
Weight: 1.200kg
ISBN: 9781138294608
ISBN 10: 1138294608
Series: Archaeological Orientations
Pages: 408
Publication Date: 24 August 2021
Audience:
College/higher education
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General/trade
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Primary
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ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Part I Introduction 1 An Ecological Approach to Heritage Part II Anthropocene 2 Legacies: Rethinking the Futures of Heritage and Waste in the Anthropocene 3 Scars: Living with Ambiguous Pasts 4 Wilderness Heritage: For an Ontology of the Anthropocene 5 Cultural Heritage and Memory of the Ecumene in the Age of the Anthropocene 6 Oil Matters Part III Affect 7 Emergent Images: Matters of Affect in Heritage Photography 8 Affective Encounters in Museums 9 A Gentle Shock of Mild Surprise: Surface Ecologies and the Archaeological Encounter 10 From-the-Hip: Rocks and Critical Heritage Ecology in the Western Australian Pilbara Part IV Memory 11 Mending Shattered Time: 22 July in Norwegian Collective Memory 12 The Remembrance of Things: The Industrial Heritage of Mining and the Ecology of Memory 13 Interstitial Heritage: Industrienatur and Ecologies of Memory 14 Memory and Redemption: Lessons from a Peasant Ecology 15 (Sm)All Things Remembered Part V Entanglements 16 A Positive Passivity: Entropy and Ecology in the Ruins 17 Heritage Ecologies as Worlding Practices 18 Mold, Weeds and Plastic Lanterns: Ecological Aftermath in a Derelict Garden 19 Heritage and the Visual Ecology of the Plantationocene 20 I Shed Tears, Left, and Forgot: The Common Frog, Mosquitoes, and Grandmother Pine Stayed Part VI Epilogues/Reflections 21 Inheritance 22 Ecotone
Torgeir Rinke Bangstad is a researcher at the Department of Archaeology, History, Religious Studies and Theology at UiT – The Arctic University of Norway. Þóra Pétursdóttir is Associate Professor of Archaeology at the University of Oslo, Norway.
