Unquiet Pasts

Risk Society, Lived Cultural Heritage, Re-designing Reflexivity

Stephanie Koerner, Ian Russell, Professor Brian Graham

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Routledge
24 August 2010

Archaeology; Human geography

Series: Heritage, Culture and Identity

This important book addresses critical themes in the development of archaeology as a reflexive, self-critical discipline in the modern world. It explores the ethical, political and cultural tensions and responsibilities which need to be addressed by archaeologists when working within networks of global ecologies and communities, examining how authoritarian traditions can exacerbate the divide between expert and public knowledge. Moreover, it analyses how localized acts of archaeology relate to changing conceptions of risk, heritage, culture, identity, and conflict.

Bringing insights from Alain Schnapp, Michael Shanks, Isabelle Stengers, Bruno Latour, Ulrich Beck, John Urry and others to cross-disciplinary discussions of these themes, Unquiet Pasts shows how archaeological discourse can contribute towards engaging and understanding current dilemmas. It also shows how archaeology, as a localized and responsibly exercised practice, can play a part in building our commonly shared and experienced world.

By: Stephanie Koerner
Edited by: Ian Russell
Series edited by: Professor Brian Graham
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780754675488
ISBN 10: 0754675483
Series: Heritage, Culture and Identity
Pages: 442
Publication Date: 24 August 2010
Audience: College/higher education , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Dr Stephanie Koerner, Art History and Archaeology, University of Manchester, UK and Ian Russell, Brown University, USA Stephanie Koerner. Andrew Cochrane. Roberta Robin Dods. Sergio Gomes. Ulf Ickerodt. Tom Lane. Geoff Carver. Koji Mizoguchi. John Urry, John Carman. Nathan Schlanger. Bo Jensen. Ana Vale. Steven Vella, Marlene Borg. Marta De Magalhaes. Alain Schnapp, Michael Shanks, Christopher Witmore. Gail Higginbottom, Philip Tonner. Angela Piccini. Thomas Kador, Jane Ruffino. Caroline Gatt. Monica Popa. Alia Ullah. Timothy Darvill. Ian Russell.

Reviews for Unquiet Pasts: Risk Society, Lived Cultural Heritage, Re-designing Reflexivity

'This fascinating and important collection demonstrates the creative possibilities of a reflexive, self-aware analysis of a learned practice. The dialectics of past and present, object and culture, and discoverer, audience and analyst, are all explored to great effect. If only the natural sciences could learn the lesson - how much better and safer the world would be!' Jerome Ravetz, Oxford University, UK