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According to UNESCO's definition, heritage is 'our legacy from the past, what we live with today, and what we pass on to future generations'. While exemplary inclusive, it does not embrace the bulging unruly and obnoxious legacies that now haunt us, and which have become so conspicuously manifest that they are claimed diagnostic of a new geological 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.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
List of Contributors

Introduction (Bjørnar Julius Olsen, Stein Farstadvoll and Geneviève Godin, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Norway)

Part I: The Matter of Unruliness
1. The Ethics of the Wild (Levi R. Bryant, Collin College, USA)
2. Picturing Ghosts (Julie de Vos, Spanish National Research Council, Spain)
3. Artificting Archaeology: Joanna Rajkowska's Aquarius (2009) and Robert Kusmirowski's The Graduation Tower (2014) (Monika Stobiecka, University of Warsaw, Poland)
4. Heritage Lost and Found: Cruel Optimism and Climate Futures (Caitlin DeSilvey, University of Exeter, UK)
5. In Praise of What There Is (Bjørnar Olsen, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Norway)

Part II: Technology and Ecological Becomings
6. The Buick At the End of the World: Nature, Technology, and the Strange Legacies of the Century of Automobility (Timothy James LeCain, Montana State University, USA)
7. Things of the Anthropocene: The Unruly Heritage of Coastal Reclamations in Japan (Denis Byrne, Western Sydney University, Australia)
8. Between Use and Abandonment: An Archaeology of Mothballing (Anatolijs Venovcevs, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Norway)
9. Concrete and the Contemporary (Torgeir Rinke Bangstad, University of Bergen, Norway)

Part III: Aftermaths and Unruly Legacies
10. Retouching the Bronze Age: Unruly Rock Art (Mats Burström, Stockholm University, Sweden)
11. Managing Scars of Terror in Norway's Government Quarter and the Shifting Memory
Values of VG's Newspaper Panel (Hein B. Bjerck, NTNU University Museum, Norway and Elin Andreassen, Independent Scholar, Norway)
12. Unruly monsters: Submarine Mines in the Baltic region (Mirja Arnshav, Stockholm University, Sweden)
13 Wayward Ruins: Manifestations of Unruliness in and of a German Second World War Luftwaffe Storage camp in Pasvik/Paccvei Valley (Stein Farstadvoll, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Norway)

Part IV: Postscript Reflections
14. Archaeological Imaginations: Unruly Heritage Lessons for the Anthropocene (Þóra Pétursdóttir, University of Oslo, Norway)

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Product details

Published Nov 14 2024
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 288
ISBN 9781350426368
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Illustrations 55 bw and 30 colour illus
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

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Bjørnar Julius Olsen

Bjørnar Julius Olsen is Professor of Archaeology a…

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Stein Farstadvoll

Stein Farstadvoll is Associate Professor of Contem…

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Geneviève Godin

Geneviève Godin is Doctoral Research Fellow in Arc…

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