Selective Remembrances

Kohl, Philip L.; Kozelsky, Mara; Ben‐Yehuda, Nachman

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“…Unlike the well-studied relationship between archaeology and nationalism (see e.g. Arnold 1990;Dietler 1994;Díaz-Andreu and Champion 1996;Meskell 2002;Hamilakis 2007;Kohl et al 2007), a relationship born during the Enlightenment but still persisting today, the current themes (those criticised by González-Ruibal) in Romano-British scholarship are more a critique of than a reflection of contemporary politics, similar to the 1980s in the UK when post-processual archaeology was in part a reaction to Thatcher (Yoffee 2003: 862). In the era of Brexit, politics and society have become more xenophobic and right-wing, contrary to themes currently being explored in Roman archaeology (Hingley et al 2018).…”

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Postnationalism and the Past: The Politics of Theory in Roman Archaeology

Hanscam

2019

Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal

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European archaeology faces two significant challenges: the intractability of old national narratives about the past, combined with the resurgence of reactionary populism, and the need to update the toolkit of social archaeological theory to meet the challenges presented by the current global political climate. The theory of postnationalism offers one way of addressing both the present political situation and the need to rejuvenate archaeological theory to meet this danger-it provides both a warning of how nationalism continues to influence research and an entreaty for archaeology to embrace its political nature. By exploring the history of scholarship and politics in Roman archaeology in Romania and the public reception of Roman studies in Britain through the lens of postnationalism, this paper argues that while the past has always been and always will be political, archaeology as a discipline is at a watershed moment-archaeologists must become unapologetic political actors.

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