Human geography and archaeology

Hill, Lisa

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“…By avoiding a binary division between past and present, in 'symmetrical archaeology pasts are regarded as not exclusively past. Instead, [this field] seeks to uncover pleats and folds in the fabric of time' (Hill, 2015). This approach to time is shared with recent work in heritage studies (Waterton and Dittmer, 2014) and is also our approach here.…”

Section: Folding Time At the Relational Museummentioning

confidence: 99%

FromDeath in the Iceto life in the museum: Absence, affect and mystery in the Arctic

Medby

Dittmer

2020

Environ Plan D

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Ever since its disappearance in the mid-19th-century, the fate of the ‘Franklin expedition’ has attracted interest and intrigue. The story has been told and re-told but remained one of ‘mystery’ into the early 21st-century. When the expedition’s two ships were finally located, the narrative shifted with the reappearance of long-absent objects and materials – in turn, posing challenges for museum curators seeking to re-present the story. In this article, we conduct a side-by-side examination of two sites: the 1845 Franklin expedition in the Northwest Passage and the 2017 Death in the Ice exhibition at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, UK. We juxtapose these to consider the forces unleashed by the ships’ absence and their presence-ing first in Victorian times and then in the UK museum space today. By analysing the sites through the concept of ‘absent presence’, the agency of both the material and the immaterial is powerfully highlighted. Via an emphasis on the relation of the absent presence to the sensing bodies of others, we consider the concept as simultaneous and co-constitutive. That is, absence and presence ought to be understood not as objective states, but as becoming-absent and becoming-present: processes that are dependent on curated and embodied sensibilities.

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Section: Folding Time At the Relational Museummentioning

confidence: 99%

FromDeath in the Iceto life in the museum: Absence, affect and mystery in the Arctic

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Dittmer

2020

Environ Plan D

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“…Drawing upon their embeddedness in their subject areas, I suggest, working‐class scholars could use their positionalities and experiences to investigate the affective affordances of ruination from fresh embodied perspectives. Yet, whilst I acknowledge that the “always already affective nature of matter and the material opens up opportunities to think through the role of past in the present from an entirely novel perspective” (Hill, , p. 419), I contend that the study of industrial ruins, and industrial ruination more broadly, would also benefit from more attentive and thorough historical investigations.…”

Section: Reading Deindustrialized Landscapes and Materialities Of Memorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Geographies of deindustrialization and the working‐class: Industrial ruination, legacies, and affect

Emery

2018

Geography Compass

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Sections of the post‐industrial working‐class have made a notable return to media and political discourses in the context of the rise of populism across Europe and the United States. These narratives, which exclude women and BAME working‐class people, suggests the (white, male) working‐class are angry and resentful of being left behind by increasingly globalized political economies, nostalgic for the industrial ordering of work, home, and community. It seems that the political and media establishment are, selectively, understanding what has long been realized by researchers of deindustrialization. In the first, this paper surveys and critiques recent discourses on the post‐industrial working‐classes. The paper then traces the development of industrial ruination as an interdisciplinary area of academic focus, highlighting the themes of memory and temporal factors that have come to dominate the literature. The next section reviews contestations surrounding the affordances of landscapes and industrial ruins for the analysis of memory and history. Finally, the paper proposes interrelated ways to advance future study which historical–cultural geographers are well placed to carry forward. Here, I call for greater attention toward the affective and embodied dimensions of classed experience and the intersectionalities of race and gender in working‐class subjectivities. Further, I suggest there is an imperative to a deeper understanding of constitutive “affective” histories to mediate enduring social inequalities and their political and socially divisive mobilizations.

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“…In her 2015 Progress in Human Geography piece, Lisa Hill stresses that the time is ripe for an increased dialogue between human geography and archaeology, particularly in relation to issues of matter and time. While Hill’s report centres on the relations between contemporary archaeology and cultural geography, the foundations are laid, through the notion of the ‘archaeological imagination’, for drawing new lines of intersection between archaeology and historical(-cultural) geography.…”

Section: Soil and The ‘Archaeological Imagination’mentioning

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Historical geography III: Hope persists

McGeachan

2017

Progress in Human Geography

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The final report in this series turns to focus on the emerging intersections between historical geography, archaeology and the law. Whilst staying attuned to the darkest of geographies emerging from the sub-field, this report turns its attention to the creative and critical ways in which the dead are being used to reveal past lives and worlds that have been destroyed and forgotten. Using soil and the archaeological imagination as a pivot, this report centres on the interweaving themes of fragile environments, resurfacing and legal worlds in order to suggest the emerging possibilities for a hopeful excavation of new historical geographies.

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Human geography and archaeology

Cited by 12 publications

References 132 publications

FromDeath in the Iceto life in the museum: Absence, affect and mystery in the Arctic

FromDeath in the Iceto life in the museum: Absence, affect and mystery in the Arctic

Geographies of deindustrialization and the working‐class: Industrial ruination, legacies, and affect

Historical geography III: Hope persists

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