Archaeology as Intellectual Service: Engaged Archaeology in San Pasquale Valley, Calabria, Italy

Chesson, Meredith S.; Ullah, Isaac; Iiriti, Giovanni; Forbes, Hamish; Lazrus, Paula Kay; Ames, Nicholas; Garcia, Yesenia; Benchekroun, Sarah; Robb, John; Wolff, Nicholas P. S.; Squillaci, Maria Olimpia

doi:10.1007/s11759-019-09376-5

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“…Engaging with such a wide range of topics encourages students to reach far beyond the usual disciplinary box of archaeology to encompass an engaged approach that centres community needs and aspirations. This is part of a wider movement in engaged archaeology (Smith 2015;Chesson et al 2019;Smith and Ralph 2020).…”

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An engaged archaeology field school with a remote aboriginal community: Successes, failures, and challenges

Smith

Jackson

Ralph

et al. 2020

Journal of Community Archaeology & Heritage

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This paper presents an analysis of the longest-running archaeological field school in Australia, the Barunga Community Archaeology Field School, which has been operating annually for over 20 years, since 1998. The overarching aim of this field school is for students to learn about Aboriginal culture from Aboriginal people and to experience the cultural protocols that apply when conducting archaeological research in a remote Aboriginal community. This article frankly identifies the longterm successes, failures, and challenges of this field school. The successes are less in the field of archaeology and more in the areas of growing cross-cultural understandings through the development of relationships between different peoples. The failures are largely to do with the physical challenges of the remote area location of the field school. The challenges are primarily due to understanding and reconciling the differences between Aboriginal and European epistemological and ontological ways of knowing and being.

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An engaged archaeology field school with a remote aboriginal community: Successes, failures, and challenges

Smith

Jackson

Ralph

et al. 2020

Journal of Community Archaeology & Heritage

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“…The emergence of an archaeology for social justice in Australia has been shaped by close collaborations between archaeologists and Indigenous Australians over the last two decades. The research documented here is part of a wider movement of community-based, activist and engaged archaeology (Marshall 2002;Atalay et al 2014;Schmidt and Pikirayi 2016;Chesson et al 2019) that encompasses the two main approaches to social justice identified by Fraser (2009): the redistribution of resources and goods and the politics of recognition. This movement has been informed by a more general concern with human rights, structural violence and ethical globalisation (eg.…”

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Pursuing Social Justice Through Collaborative Archaeologies in Aboriginal Australia

Smith

Burke

Ralph

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This paper identifies the emergence of the pursuit of social justice as a core focus of collaborative archaeologies in Aboriginal Australia. A wide range of case studies are examined, especially in relation to efforts to redress a 'deep colonisation' that silences Indigenous histories and fails to engage with Indigenous voices or experiences. This research is part of a wider global movement of community-based, activist and engaged archaeology that encompasses two principle approaches to social justice: the redistribution of resources and goods and the politics of recognition. It is informed by a more general concern with human rights, structural violence and ethical globalisation. In Australia, social justice archaeologies are both confronting, in terms of frontier violence, intentional structural violence and racism, but also inspirational/aspirational, in terms of Aboriginal nation building and the cultural facilitation of Aboriginal research ethics. The development of collaborative projects between Indigenous peoples and (Indigenous and non-Indigenous) archaeologists can be challenging. Indigenous archaeologists face particular challenges, including balancing sometimes conflicting expectations from communities with the demands of the profession. For non-Indigenous archaeologists, the challenge lies in the shift from working with Indigenous peoples to working for Indigenous peoples as part of a process in which social justice outcomes are a product, rather than a by-product, of archaeological research.

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“…Still, for every successful collaboration reported (e.g., Chesson et al. 2019; Clark 2019; Dring et al. 2019; Guilfoyle et al.…”

Section: Indigenous Archaeologies and Epistemic Justicementioning

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Confronting the Present: Archaeology in 2019

Rosenzweig

2020

American Anthropologist

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Postmodernity has a distinctly pre‐apocalyptic feel to it, and this feeling has seeped into archaeology. A review of the scholarship from 2019 attests that archaeologists are having to reckon with present‐day conditions and phenomena as they structure their research, delineate the material world, and affirm archaeology's relevance. Furthermore, these concerns have moved from the realm of the rarely spoken and come to constitute a critical conversation in the field. In a number of respects, the contours of archaeology now hinge upon the discipline's responses to developments in real time, including: How can archaeological knowledge production escape the logistical and epistemological bounds of late capitalism and its failures? Can archaeology contribute to future‐building, and what would that look like? Does archaeology have to be scholar‐activism to achieve the goal of making the past matter (to whom) (for what)? [archaeology, contemporary archaeology, future archaeology, current issues]

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Archaeology as Intellectual Service: Engaged Archaeology in San Pasquale Valley, Calabria, Italy

Cited by 10 publications

References 30 publications

An engaged archaeology field school with a remote aboriginal community: Successes, failures, and challenges

An engaged archaeology field school with a remote aboriginal community: Successes, failures, and challenges

Pursuing Social Justice Through Collaborative Archaeologies in Aboriginal Australia

Confronting the Present: Archaeology in 2019

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