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Contemporary Archaeology and the City - Creativity, Ruination, and Political Action (Hardcover)
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Contemporary Archaeology and the City - Creativity, Ruination, and Political Action (Hardcover)
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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, Belem, 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.
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