Situating the Greenham Archaeology: An Autoethnography of a Feminist Project

Marshall, Yvonne; Roseneil, Sasha; Armstrong, Kayt

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“…Edgeworth et al 2014); protest (e.g. Badcock & Johnson 2013, Beck et al 2007, Marshall et al 2009, Schofield & Anderton 2000; processes of ruin, ruin "porn" and urban decay/regeneration (e.g. Lucas for example, all reflect a desire to orient the project of an archaeology of the contemporary world towards academic engagements with the present which might have the potential to reshape the future.…”

Section: Concluding Remarks: On the Potential For Archaeologies Of Thmentioning

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Archaeologies of the Contemporary World

Harrison

Breithoff

2017

Annu. Rev. Anthropol.

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Archaeologists have long been interested in contemporary material culture, but only recently has a dedicated subfield of archaeology of the contemporary world begun to emerge. Whilst concerned mainly with the archaeology of the early to mid-twentieth and twenty-first centuries, in its explicit acknowledgement of the contemporary archaeological record as multi-temporal, it is not defined by a focus on a specific time period so much as a particular disposition towards time, material things, the archaeological process and its politics. This paper considers how the subfield might be characterised by its approaches to particular sources and its current and emerging thematic foci. A significant point of debate concerns the role of archaeology as a discipline through which to explore ongoing, contemporary socio-material practices-is archaeology purely concerned with the "abandoned" and the "ruined", or can it also provide a means by which to engage with and illuminate ongoing, contemporary and future socio-material practices? Headings

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Section: Concluding Remarks: On the Potential For Archaeologies Of Thmentioning

confidence: 99%

Archaeologies of the Contemporary World

Harrison

Breithoff

2017

Annu. Rev. Anthropol.

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“…This phenomenon has been referred to as political taphonomy (Bernbeck ) and has been discussed in cases such as that of the Greenham Common missile silos and the 1980s women's peace camps (Marshall et al. ).…”

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The Subject of Suffering

Pollock

2016

American Anthropologist

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As the German philosopher Theodor W. Adorno argued, suffering is one of the most fundamental of human experiences. In archaeological narratives, however, suffering seldom appears. Instead, current trends in archaeology, including the focus on the relevance of things, the dissolution of boundaries between subjects and objects, and the foregrounding of agency, shift attention away from the subject of suffering. I discuss an archaeology that takes suffering as a central issue, drawing on archaeological work at sites of the Nazi period in Berlin. Rather than promoting positive identifications with the past, I argue that we need archaeologies that work toward respect and responsibility by acknowledging suffering, both past and present. [suffering, experience, archaeology of Nazi

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“…Jones, 2010), protest camps (e.g. Marshall, et al, 2009), and sex-workers (e.g. Schofield and Morrissey, 2005).…”

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Archaeology, Memory and Oral Tradition: An Introduction

Jones

Russell

2012

Int J Histor Archaeol

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This paper serves as an introduction to this special edition of the International Journal of Historical Archaeology on the theme of archaeology, memory and oral history. Recent approaches to oral history and memory destabilise existing grand narratives and confront some of the epistemological assumptions underpinning scientific archaeology. Here we discuss these approaches to memory and explore their impact on historical archaeology, including the challenges that forms of oral and social memory present to a field traditionally defined by the relationship between material culture and text. We then review a number of themes addressed by the articles in this volume.Keywords: memory, oral history, belonging, narrative, place, heritage Archaeology has a lengthy tradition of using oral history and as a form of historical enquiry it has long contributed to the production of public memory. Yet, recent approaches to oral and social memory undermine existing master narratives and confront some of the epistemological assumptions underpinning scientific archaeology. The active selection and construction of memory in the present has been emphasised, along with memory's capacity to disturb dominant ways of understanding the past. In archaeology these developments have been prominent in post-colonial contexts and Indigenous archaeology. Yet there are also parallel trends in Europe, where oral history and social memory are seen as a means to access vernacular culture and subaltern understandings of the past.It was against this intellectual background that we decided to organize a theme titled Memory, Archaeology, and Oral Traditions at the Sixth World Archaeological Congress in Dublin in July 2008. Under this theme, as in this volume, we included oral history in the traditional sense of oral narratives based on first-hand experience, along with broader forms of transgenerational oral tradition, folklore, and social memory. These different forms of oral memory are frequently the focus of distinct bodies of research and publication. Nevertheless, these different kinds of oral memory intersect with one another in complex ways and all are socially and materially mediated to a greater or lesser degree. Their juxtaposition thus raises interesting and productive avenues of enquiry.We asked participants to consider the following questions, which we consider important in the future development of archaeological research on memory. How should we conceive of oral tradition and social memory? In recognizing their significance, how do we avoid objectifying and romanticizing them? Does a dichotomy between memory and history still prevail and if so what are its effects on our understandings of the past? How do we deal with the intersection of written and oral history? To what extent is social memory disparate, located and fragmented and how do authoritative narratives emerge and persist? What roles do archaeological remains play in the production of social memory and what of other 'memory props', such as, texts, images, folktales, myt...

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Situating the Greenham Archaeology: An Autoethnography of a Feminist Project

Cited by 22 publications

References 13 publications

Archaeologies of the Contemporary World

Archaeologies of the Contemporary World

The Subject of Suffering

Archaeology, Memory and Oral Tradition: An Introduction

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