On Contract Archaeology

Gnecco, Cristóbal; Dias, Adriana Schmidt

doi:10.1007/s10761-015-0305-6

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“…Partilhamos a crítica geral feita à arqueologia de gestão como justificação científica da devastação social e ambiental que o capitalismo gera (GNECCO & DIAS, 2015), mas este debate é uma reminiscência daquele acontecido nas praças, como a Porta do Sol de Madri, quando nas assembleias do 15M se discutia se o sistema devia ser reformado ou destruído. Ao final, foram estabelecidas duas comissões de trabalho para enfrentar esta dialética: política de longo prazo e política de curto prazo.…”

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Arqueologia de Gestão em Madri: presos pelo modelo de especulação capitalista do território

Suárez

Parga‐Dans²

2015

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RESUMOCom o fim da ditadura Franquista, iniciou na Espanha um processo sem precedentes de democracia compactuada com as elites políticas e econômicas. A novidade neste contexto de transformação estava na introdução de uma série de instituições democráticas que amparavam um modelo econômico desenvolvimentista que garantia o acesso ao consumo das massas e a maiores níveis de igualdade e liberdade, através da formula do livre mercado. A associação entre liberdade democrática e econômica neste contexto de transformação assentou as bases cognitivas que se relacionam com determinadas formas de "verdade" e "poder". Madri, como comunidade pioneira na instauração da denominada arqueologia comercial ou de contrato, fundamentada na liberação do solo para a construção, é um caso paradigmático deste processo de transformação. Neste contexto, as contradições associadas ao modelo econômico que possibilitou o desenvolvimento da arqueologia comercial e do marco legal que a amparou, são aqui expostos como forma de denúncia e crítica a uma forma determinada e hegemônica de operar, abrindose um espaço para a reflexão e a luta. Palavras-chave: Arqueologia Comercial, Espanha, neoliberalismo, associações profissionais, política patrimonial. ABSTRACTWith the end of Franco's dictatorship in Spain began a process of unprecedented democracy covenanted with the political and economic elites. The novelty in this context was the introduction of a series of democratic institutions that sheltered a developmental economic model that guarantee access to mass consumption and higher levels of equality and freedom, through the formula of the free market. The association between democratic and economic freedom in this transformation context became the cognitive bases to certain forms of "truth" and "power." Madrid, a pioneer community in establishing the so-called commercial or contract archeology, based on the release of land for construction, is a paradigmatic case of this transformation process. In this context, the contradictions associated with the economic model that has enabled the development of commercial archeology and the legal

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Arqueologia de Gestão em Madri: presos pelo modelo de especulação capitalista do território

Suárez

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2015

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“…The failure of Spanish commercial archaeology in a mere five-year period is a paradigmatic case study because the same phenomenon currently affects several other countries in Europe, the US and Latin America (Aitchison 2009b;Gnecco and Dias 2015;Schlanger 2010), and also due to the relevance and complexity of cultural-heritage management as an economic activity in a postindustrial context (Alonso . A large body of scholarship discusses the global economic crisis and heritage management, opening up a debate about the future possibilities of the archaeological profession (Cleary et al 2014;Mizoguchi 2015;Zimmerman 2018).…”

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Heritage in danger. The collapse of commercial archaeology in Spain

Parga‐Dans¹

2019

Arch. Dial.

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As in most European countries and elsewhere, Spanish commercial archaeology is a business model based on the theoretical and technical principles of safeguarding heritage that thrived during the 1990s and 2000s. However, nearly half of the Spanish archaeological companies closed by 2014, stressing the drama associated with the redundancy of its workforce in a mere five-year period and the threat to heritage protection and management. The current context of global crisis has impacted this sector, which is on the brink of extinction. This emphasizes the need for a new paradigm of archaeological heritage management in the 21st century. This breakdown calls into question the extent to which archaeology can generate initiatives of sustainable heritage management. By analysing data derived from an empirical study of Spanish archaeological companies between 2009 and 2017, this paper explores the underlying factors behind the collapse of commercial archaeology. In doing so, it contributes to the current global debate about the future possibilities of heritage management in a post-industrial context.

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“…buildings, mines, roads, railways, piping and electric grid) (e.g. Demoule, 2012;Gnecco & Dias, 2015). The terminology of this development-led branch of archaeology varies and the activities are refered to, for instance, as contract archaeology (e.g.…”

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“…The terminology of this development-led branch of archaeology varies and the activities are refered to, for instance, as contract archaeology (e.g. Gnecco & Dias, 2015), professional archaeology (e.g. Aitchison, 2015), rescue, salvage or commercial archaeology (e.g.…”

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“…There is significant country-specific variation in the practices and legislation concerning development-led archaeology. A typical premise of development-led archaeology is that developers have a legal obligation to apply for a permission to start a project and if deemed necessary by the authorities, fund archaeological investigations at the site of intervention before a the project is allowed to commence (Gnecco & Dias, 2015;Kristiansen, 2009). The gradual implementation of the principles of the European Convention on the Protection of the Archaeological Heritage (Revised), the so called Valletta Treaty, effective from 1995, in heritage legislation has changed the conditions of development-led archaeology in Europe (Demoule, 2012;Kristiansen, 2009).…”

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Land Developers and Archaeological Information

Huvila

2017

Open Information Science

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Land developers are significant stakeholders of archaeological work in the developed world. A better understanding of their information practices is crucial for the preservation and management of archaeological heritage. This study investigates land developers' use, needs and conceptions of the usefulness-value of archaeological information and their views of development-led archaeological process. The findings are based on a survey of Finnish and Swedish land developers (N=34) that have contracted and financed archaeological fieldwork. The results show that the most useful information for land developers is data on the spatial location of archaeological sites but that the situation is much more nuanced than often suggested. Even if the most of the respondents were rather satisfied with the current situation, the lack of information can have major consequences and there are several obstacles to obtain relevant information. Extensive reliance on people sources can be seen both a symptom of the current problems and an indication of the importance of closer collaboration between archaeologists and land developers. Further, the study shows that the different levels of the perceived usefulness of specific types of archaeological information can be explained by the different regimes determining their worth in the two communities.

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On Contract Archaeology

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Arqueologia de Gestão em Madri: presos pelo modelo de especulação capitalista do território

Arqueologia de Gestão em Madri: presos pelo modelo de especulação capitalista do território

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