Contemporary Archaeology and the City
Creativity, Ruination, and Political Action
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 27 July 2017
- ISBN 9780198803607
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages316 pages
- Size 241x163x23 mm
- Weight 694 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book argues archaeology is uniquely placed to contribute a variety of perspectives on the current life-cycles of cities including processes of decay, revitalization, and transformation. It foregrounds the materialities of post-industrial, post-modern and other urban transformations through a diverse, international collection of case studies.
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Contemporary Archaeology and the City foregrounds the archaeological study of post-industrial and other urban transformations through a diverse, international collection of case studies. Over the past decade contemporary archaeology has emerged as a dynamic force for dissecting and contextualizing the material complexities of present-day societies. Contemporary archaeology challenges conventional anthropological and archaeological conceptions of the past by pushing temporal boundaries closer to, if not into, the present.
The volume is organized around three themes that highlight the multifaceted character of urban transitions in present-day cities - creativity, ruination, and political action. The case studies offer comparative perspectives on transformative global urban processes in local contexts through research conducted in the struggling, post-industrial cities of Detroit, Belfast, Indianapolis, Berlin, Liverpool, Belém, and post-Apartheid Cape Town, as well as the thriving urban centres of Melbourne, New York City, London, Chicago, and Istanbul. Together, the volume contributions demonstrate how the contemporary city is an urban palimpsest comprised by archaeological assemblages - of the built environment, the surface, and buried sub-surface - that are traces of the various pasts entangled with one another in the present.
This volume aims to position the city as one of the most important and dynamic arenas for archaeological studies of the contemporary by presenting a range of theoretically-engaged case studies that highlight some of the major issues that the study of contemporary cities pose for archaeologists.
a skillfuly crafted volume
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Contemporary Archaeology and the City: Creativity, Ruination, and Political Action
SECTION I: CREATIVITY
Artist Spaces in Berlin: Defining and Redefining a City through Contemporary Archaeology
Cultural Heritage and Political Ecology: A Modest Proposal from Istanbul via Detroit
Making Music in Detroit: Archaeology, Popular Music, and Post-Industrial Heritage
SECTION II: RUINATION
Embers from the House of Blazes: Fragments, Relics, Ruins of Chicago
Commemorating Melbourne's Past: Constructing and Contesting Space, Time, and Public Memory in Contemporary Parkscapes
Ruined by the Thirst for Urban Prosperity: Contemporary Archaeology of City Water Systems
Ruins of the South
SECTION III: POLITICAL ACTION
Creative Destruction and Neoliberal Landscapes: Post-industrial Archaeologies Beyond Ruins
Repercussions of Differential Deindustrialisation in the City: Memory and Identity in Contemporary East Belfast
A Renaissance with Revenants: Images Gathered from the ruins of Cape Town's Districts One and Six
Encountering Home: A Contemporary Archaeology of Homelessness
The Optimism of Absence: An Archaeology of Displacement, Effacement, and Modernity
Conclusion
Index
