Contemporary archaeology and the city : creativity, ruination, and political action /
'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 conte...
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2017.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : contemporary archaeology and the city : creativity, ruination, and political action / Laura McAtackney and Krysta Ryzewski
- Section I. Creativity. Artist spaces in Berlin : defining and redefining a city through contemporary archaeology / Carolyn L. White and Steven Seidenberg ; Cultural heritage and political ecology : a modest proposal from Istanbul via Detroit / Ian Alden Russell ; Making music in Detroit : archaeology, popular music, and post-industrial heritage / Krysta Ryzewski
- Section II. Ruination. Embers from the house of blazes : fragments, relics, ruins of Chicago / Rebecca S. Graff ; Commemorating Melbourne's past : constructing and contesting space, time, and public memory in contemporary parkscapes / Madeline Shanahan and Brian Shanahan ; Ruined by the thirst for urban prosperity : contemporary archaeology of city water systems / April M. Beisaw ; Ruins of the south / Alfredo González-Ruibal
- Section III. Political action. Creative destruction and neoliberal landscapes : post-industrial archaeologies beyond ruins / Sefryn Penrose ; Repercussions of differential deindustrialization in the city : memory and identity in contemporary East Belfast / Laura McAtackney ; A renaissance with revenants : images gathered from the ruins of Cape Town's Districts One and Six / Christian Ernsten ; Encountering home : a contemporary archaeology of homelessness / Courtney Singleton ; The optimism of absence : an archaeology of displacement, effacement, and modernity / Paul R. Mullins
- Conclusion : a future for urban contemporary archaeology / Krysta Ryzewski and Laura McAtackney.