"Exploring the current clash between the prevailing conceptions of heritage as, on the one hand, something valued and thus worth saving and, on the other, a haunting and unwanted legacy, this book urges a radical reconsideration of our understanding of heritage in line with the notion of an unruly legacy. The fundamental argument is based on a less anthropocentric and more ecologically focussed perspective, where case studies are presented on the following countries: Canada, Iceland, Japan, Norway, Poland, Sweden and the United States"--
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 haunt us; legacies that have become so conspicuously manifest that they are claimed as 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.
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In the current context of environmental change and uncertainty, Unruly Heritage is a timely contribution that provides a compelling reflection on the more-than-human world we inhabit. The concept of the unruly challenges the heritage paradigm by considering elements that cannot be easily tamed or neatly categorised. The breadth of this edited collection highlights the complex material entanglements that shape legacies. -- Nadia Bartolini, Associate Lecturer in Cultural Heritage Studies, UCL Institute of Archaeology, UK
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Explores the conception of heritage as unruly from a rich variety of angles, ranging from archaeological theory to multidisciplinary considerations of Anthropocene legacies.
List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
Introduction (Bjųrnar Julius Olsen, Stein Farstadvoll and Genevičve 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 Rajkowskas Aquarius (2009) and Robert
Kusmirowskis 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 (Bjųrnar 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 Norways Government Quarter and the Shifting
Memory
Values of VGs 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
(Žóra Pétursdóttir, University of Oslo, Norway)
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Bjųrnar Julius Olsen is Professor of Archaeology at UiT The Arctic University of Norway.
Stein Farstadvoll is Associate Professor of Contemporary Archaeology at UiT The Arctic University of Norway.
Genevičve Godin is an independent scholar and former Doctoral Research Fellow at UiT The Arctic University of Norway.
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