Won with Blood: Archaeology and Labor’s Struggle

McGuire, Randall H.

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“…Part of an activist archaeology is a critical engagement with both past and present histories. Randall McGuire (), for instance, interrogates archaeological and historical data to demonstrate the positive gains that organized labor has produced for workers, revealing the ideological nature of corporate narratives that undermine unions. This approach is also evident in Natasha Lyons's () use of critical theory to acknowledge the lives and memories of descendant communities.…”

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Archaeologies of the Past and in the Present in 2014: Materialities of Human History

Morehart

2015

AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST

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Research from the past year demonstrates archaeologists' diverse contributions to the anthropological study of human experience and social relationships in time and space. I divide literature published from late 2013 to late 2014 into five themes. First, archaeological research on space focuses on the persistence and materiality of landscapes, the creation and dynamics of communities and cities, and the mobility and migration of people.Second, studies of climate change and environmental interaction stress that organizational relationships and their long-term legacies are fundamental to ecological sustainability. Third, archaeologists offer anthropology the ability to contextualize the causes and the manifestations of violence and conflict through longitudinal cases studies and material analysis. Fourth, work on objects, bodies, and identity emphasizes that social subjectivities are not only variable but are historically connected to material worlds. Finally, fifth, archaeologists engaged with the present offer critical understandings of heritage policies and promote an activism that seeks more ethical practices with descendent communities and within the discipline itself. Despite differences, the recent literature reveals archaeologists' contributions to these significant anthropological topics by studying long-term, historical legacies and the materiality of human relationships. [archaeology, anthropology, materiality, history, year in review] RESUMEN Investigación del año pasado demuestra contribuciones diversas de los arqueólogos al estudio antropológico de la experiencias humana y las relaciones sociales en tiempo y espacio. Divido la literatura publicada desde finales del 2013 a finales del 2014 en cinco temas. Primero, la investigación arqueológica sobre espacio se enfoca en la persistencia y materialidad de los paisajes, la creación y dinámica de comunidades y ciudades, y la movilidad y migración de personas. Segundo, estudios de cambio climático e interacción ambiental enfatizan que las relaciones organizacionales y sus legados de largo plazo son fundamentales para la sostenibilidad ecológica.Tercero, arqueólogos le ofrecen a la antropología la habilidad de contextualizar las causas y las manifestaciones de la violencia y el conflicto a través de estudios de caso longitudinales y análisis material. Cuarto, trabajos sobre objetos, cuerpos, e identidad enfatizan que las subjetividades sociales no son solamente variables, sino que están históricamente conectadas a los mundos materiales. Finalmente, quinto, arqueólogos comprometidos con el presente ofrecen entendimientos críticos de las políticas hereditarias y promueven un activismo que busca prácticas máséticas con comunidades de descendientes y dentro de la disciplina en sí misma. A pesar de las diferencias, la reciente literatura revela las contribuciones de los arqueólogos a estos temas antropológicos significativos al estudiar legados históricos de largo plazo y la materialidad de las relaciones humanas. [arqueología, antropología, materialidad, hi...

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Section: Archaeologies Of and In The Presentmentioning

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Archaeologies of the Past and in the Present in 2014: Materialities of Human History

Morehart

2015

AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST

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“…To study an era defined by drastic levels of environmental degradation and environmental inequity, archaeologists of the Anthropocene must extend their critical and reflexive insights to questions of toxic harm, slow violence, and ecological devastation. In order to investigate the long‐term effects of industrial capitalism upon the environment and upon ourselves, archaeologists need to focus not only on industrial heritage or labor history (Beaudry 1987; McGuire 2014; Mrozowski and Wurst 2016; Paynter 1988; Shackel 2011), but on the long decomposing afterlives of post‐industrial landscapes.…”

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6 The Ecological Life of Industrial Waste

Stewart

2022

Archaeological Papers of the American

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The post‐depositional afterlife of an archaeological site is often viewed as the least important aspect of its history and outside of traditional archaeological interest. In the case of industrial sites, this elision ignores one of the most important aspects of industrial history, namely the long‐term effects of toxic waste. In an era where industrial pollution and anthropogenic climate change are rapidly changing the future of life on this planet, the stakes of understanding the effects of industrial waste are vital. This article outlines a reflexive, ecologically focused archaeology that interrogates the afterlives of industrial waste, not as a method to get back to the history of production, but as a means for taking seriously these afterlives as a defining characteristic of life in the Anthropocene. Using the concept of the ecological lives of industrial waste to explore the (post)industrial history of Mill Creek Ravine—a historically important industrial area in Edmonton, Alberta— this article argues that the decomposition of industrial waste serves as both a medium for long‐term harms, as well as the locus for emergent relations and critical investigation.

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Research on Computer-Aided Ideological and Political Teaching Based on Constructivism

Zhang

2019

Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing

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Won with Blood: Archaeology and Labor’s Struggle

Cited by 9 publications

References 6 publications

Archaeologies of the Past and in the Present in 2014: Materialities of Human History

Archaeologies of the Past and in the Present in 2014: Materialities of Human History

6 The Ecological Life of Industrial Waste

Research on Computer-Aided Ideological and Political Teaching Based on Constructivism

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