Heritage Ecologies

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Heritage Ecologies presents an ecological understanding of heritage that furthers a concern for how its making and unmaking always involves a wide range of human and other-than-human actors. Recognizing the entangled nature-cultures of heritage is essential in the Anthropocene era, where uncertainty and rapid environmental change force us to recast common conceptions of inheritance and to envision new strategies for preservation. Heritage sites are meant to be open and shared spaces, and a recurring argument in the cases presented here is that this openness inevitably also overrides our selections, orders and appreciations. Through a diverse range of case studies, the chapters collected in this book aim to explore the affects and memories engendered by diverse heritage ecologies where humans are neither the sole makers nor the only inheritors. The common call is that the experiential, perceptive and informational plenitude enabled through contributions of other-than-human actors is key to an ecological rethinking of heritage in the twenty-first century.Heritage Ecologies is unique in bringing heritage studies into closer proximity with a wide variety of non-representational and object-oriented theories and is an important volume for students and researchers in archaeology and heritage studies. Contents List of figures List of contributors Acknowledgments Part I: Introduction 1 An ecological approach to heritage • Torgeir Rinke Bangstad and Þóra Pétursdóttir Part II: Anthropocene 2 Legacies: rethinking the futures of heritage and waste in the Anthropocene • Rodney Harrison 3 Scars: living with ambiguous pasts • Anna Storm 4 Wilderness heritage: for an ontology of the Anthropocene • Levi R. Bryant 5 Cultural heritage and memory of the ecumene in the age of the Anthropocene • Laurent Olivier 6 Oil matters • Esther Breithoff Part III: Affect 7 Emergent images: matters of affect in heritage photography • Colin Sterling 8 Affective encounters in museums • Marzia Varutti 9 A gentle shock of mild surprise: surface ecologies and the archaeological encounter • Tim Flohr Sørensen 10 From-the-hip: rocks and critical heritage ecology in the Western Australian Pilbara • Janice Baker Part IV: Memory 11 Mending shattered time: 22 July in Norwegian collective memory • Helge Jordheim 12 The remembrance of things: the industrial heritage of mining and the ecology of memory • Timothy LeCain 13 Interstitial heritage: Industrienatur and ecologies of memor • Torgeir Rinke Bangstad 14 Memory and redemption: lessons from a peasant ecology • Alfredo González-Ruibal 15 (Sm)all things remembered • Ingar Figenschau Part V: Entanglements 16 A positive passivity: entropy and ecology in the ruins • Caitlin DeSilvey 17 Heritage ecologies as worlding practices • Christina Fredengren 18 Mold, weeds and plastic lanterns: ecological aftermath in a derelict garden • Stein Farstadvoll 19 Heritage and the visual ecology of the Plantationocene • Rui Gomes Coelho 20 I shed tears, left, and forgot: the common frog, mosquitoes, and Grandmother Pine stayed • Suvi Tuominen and Marko Marila Part VI: Epilogues/reflections 21 Inheritance • Timothy Morton 22 Ecotone • Þóra Pétursdóttir Index