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Contemporary archaeology and the city : creativity, ruination, and political action

Title: Contemporary archaeology and the city : creativity, ruination, and political action / edited by Laura McAtackney and Krysta Ryzewski.
Publication: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.

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xix, 278 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, map; 24 cm

Summary

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.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JFE 17-9492

ISBN

0198803605
9780198803607

OCLC

1002189254

Title

Contemporary archaeology and the city : creativity, ruination, and political action / edited by Laura McAtackney and Krysta Ryzewski.

Publisher

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

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cartographic image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

McAtackney, Laura, 1977- editor.

Ryzewski, Krysta, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 17-9492

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