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Author(s): McAtackney, Laura;Ryzewski, Krysta
ISBN(s): 9780198803607, 0198803605
Edition: First edition
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Year: 2017
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0198803605 
ISBN 13: 9780198803607
Author: Laura McAtackney, Krysta Ryzewski

Contemporary Archaeology and the City foregrounds the archaeological study of post-industrial and other urban transformations through a diverse, international collection of case studies. Over the past decade contemporary archaeology has emerged as a dynamic force for dissecting and contextualizing the material complexities of present-day societies. Contemporary archaeology challenges conventional anthropological and archaeological conceptions of the past by pushing temporal boundaries closer to, if not into, the present. The volume is organized around three themes that highlight the multifaceted character of urban transitions in present-day cities – creativity, ruination, and political action. The case studies offer comparative perspectives on transformative global urban processes in local contexts through research conducted in the struggling, post-industrial cities of Detroit, Belfast, Indianapolis, Berlin, Liverpool, Belém, and post-Apartheid Cape Town, as well as the thriving urban centres of Melbourne, New York City, London, Chicago, and Istanbul. Together, the volume contributions demonstrate how the contemporary city is an urban palimpsest comprised by archaeological assemblages – of the built environment, the surface, and buried sub-surface – that are traces of the various pasts entangled with one another in the present. This volume aims to position the city as one of the most important and dynamic arenas for archaeological studies of the contemporary by presenting a range of theoretically-engaged case studies that highlight some of the major issues that the study of contemporary cities pose for archaeologists.

Contemporary archaeology and the city creativity ruination and political action 1st Table of contents:

Section I. Creativity

  1. Artist Spaces in Berlin: Defining and Redefining a City through Contemporary Archaeology
    1.1 The Archaeology of the Artist Studio
    1.2 Occupied Space in Past, Present, and Future
    1.3 Is the Rise of the ‘Creative City’ the Fall of Zwischennutzung?
    1.4 The Historical Circumstances of Zwischennutzung
    1.5 The Value of Examining Artists’ Studios

  2. Cultural Heritage and Political Ecology: A Modest Proposal from Istanbul via Detroit
    2.1 Reflexive Acknowledgement
    2.2 An Upturned Cup of Turkish Coffee
    2.3 A Political Ecology
    2.4 Cultural Heritage as a Place of Possibility
    2.5 Alternative Platforms for Participation
    2.6 The Museum of Innocence
    2.7 The Museum as Parafiction
    2.8 A Radical Innocence
    2.9 The Manifesto
    2.10 Modest Musings
    2.11 Approaching Socially Engaged Heritage

  3. Making Music in Detroit: Archaeology, Popular Music, and Post-industrial Heritage
    3.1 A Music-making History of the Motor City
    3.2 Detroit’s Post-industrial Music-making Landscape
    3.3 Archaeology and Popular Music
    3.4 ‘Making Music in Detroit’: A Digital Storytelling Exercise
    3.5 Popular Music History and Archaeology in Post-industrial Detroit: A Digital Future?
    3.6 Concluding Thoughts

Section II. Ruination

  1. Embers from the House of Blazes: Fragments, Relics, Ruins of Chicago
    4.1 From City to Ruin: The 1871 Chicago Fire
    4.2 Relic House
    4.3 The Chicago Tribune Tower’s ‘Famous Stones’
    4.4 Fragments of Memories, Collections of Ruins
    4.5 Conclusion

  2. Commemorating Melbourne’s Past: Constructing and Contesting Space, Time, and Public Memory in Contemporary Parkscapes
    5.1 Terminology
    5.2 Parks
    5.3 A Brief History of Melbourne
    5.4 Case Study Memorials in Melbourne’s Parks
    5.5 Conclusion

  3. Ruined by the Thirst for Urban Prosperity: Contemporary Archaeology of City Water Systems
    6.1 Ruined for Water: A Short History of New York and its Water Supply
    6.2 Contemporary Archaeology of Distant City Lands
    6.3 Ghostly Ruins and a Legacy of Conflict
    6.4 Urban Water Demands and Rural Ruination
    6.5 Postscript: Juxtaposing Detroit’s Water Crisis with its Water History

  4. Ruins of the South
    7.1 Ruins of Brazil
    7.2 Ruins of the City
    7.3 Ruins of the Forest
    7.4 Discussion: Ruins of the South / Ruins of the North
    7.5 Conclusion

Section III. Political Action

  1. Creative Destruction and Neoliberal Landscapes: Post-industrial Archaeologies Beyond Ruins
    8.1 Britain’s Detroit(s)
    8.2 Knowing Capitalism
    8.3 Neoliberal Landscapes
    8.4 Creative Destruction
    8.5 Archaeologies of Contemporary Capitalism
    8.6 Exploring the Boring
    8.7 Urban Development Corporations
    8.8 London Docklands
    8.9 Canary Wharf
    8.10 Merseyside to Manchester
    8.11 Conclusion

  2. Repercussions of Differential Deindustrialization in the City: Memory and Identity in Contemporary East Belfast
    9.1 Historical Background: Segregation, Sectarianism, and Industrialization in Belfast
    9.2 Contemporary Belfast: Memorialization, Commemoration, and the Issues of ‘Dealing with the Past’
    9.3 Deindustrialization and Memorialization in East Belfast
    9.4 Conclusion

  3. A Renaissance with Revenants: Images Gathered from the Ruins of Cape Town’s Districts One and Six
    10.1 Afterlife
    10.2 Land
    10.3 Homage
    10.4 Witness
    10.5 Truth
    10.6 Percolate
    10.7 Scar
    10.8 Drama

  4. Encountering Home: A Contemporary Archaeology of Homelessness
    11.1 Unrecognized Dwelling: A Public–Homeless Encounter
    11.2 Household Archaeology: The Roots of a Discrete Home
    11.3 The Davidson Street Bridge / Irish Hill Homeless Encampment
    11.4 Conclusion: The Possibilities for an Archaeology of Homelessness

  5. The Optimism of Absence: An Archaeology of Displacement, Effacement, and Modernity
    12.1 Collective Memory and Materiality in Post-war Finland
    12.2 The Aesthetics of Urban Renewal
    12.3 Compelling Absence

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