
After Discourse
Things, Affects, Ethics
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 22. December 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
306 pages
978-0-367-19048-4 (ISBN)
Description
After Discourse is an interdisciplinary response to the recent trend away from linguistic and textual approaches and towards things and their affects.
The new millennium brought about serious changes to the intellectual landscape. Favoured approaches associated with the linguistic and the textual turn lost some of their currency, and were followed by a new curiosity and concern for things and their natures. Gathering contributions from archaeology, heritage studies, history, geography, literature and philosophy, After Discourse offers a range of reflections on what things are, how we become affected by them, and the ethical concerns they give rise to. Through a varied constellation of case studies, it explores ways of dealing with matters which fall outside, become othered from, or simply cannot be grasped through perspectives derived solely from language and discourse.
After Discourse provides challenging new perspectives for scholars and students interested in other-than-textual encounters between people and the objects with which we share the world.
The new millennium brought about serious changes to the intellectual landscape. Favoured approaches associated with the linguistic and the textual turn lost some of their currency, and were followed by a new curiosity and concern for things and their natures. Gathering contributions from archaeology, heritage studies, history, geography, literature and philosophy, After Discourse offers a range of reflections on what things are, how we become affected by them, and the ethical concerns they give rise to. Through a varied constellation of case studies, it explores ways of dealing with matters which fall outside, become othered from, or simply cannot be grasped through perspectives derived solely from language and discourse.
After Discourse provides challenging new perspectives for scholars and students interested in other-than-textual encounters between people and the objects with which we share the world.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
87 s/w Abbildungen, 86 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder, 1 s/w Zeichnung
1 Line drawings, black and white; 86 Halftones, black and white; 87 Illustrations, black and white
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Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
540 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-367-19048-4 (9780367190484)
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Persons
Bjornar J. Olsen is Professor of Archaeology at the UiT - The Arctic University of Norway. His research focuses on Sami archaeology, contemporary archaeology, memory, heritage and thing theory. Recent projects include three Norwegian Research Council-funded projects and he is currently the director of the Unruly Heritage project, which examines how the past effectively enacts itself through the undesirable legacies being passed on.
Mats Burstroem is Professor of Archaeology at Stockholm University, Sweden. His research is focused on contemporary archaeology and the interplay between material remains and memory. Publications within this field include studies of a Third Reich arena in Germany, a refugee camp in Sweden, family belongings hidden in the ground in Estonia and a Soviet nuclear missile site in Cuba.
Caitlin DeSilvey is Professor of Cultural Geography at the University of Exeter, where she is Associate Director for Transdiciplinary Research at the Environment and Sustainability Institute. Her research explores the cultural significance of material change, with a particular focus on heritage contexts. She has published a number of edited books and journal articles; her monograph Curated Decay: Heritage Beyond Saving was published in 2017.
?ora Petursdottir is Associate Professor of Archaeology in the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History at the University of Oslo in Norway. Her research is predominantly focused on archaeology of the recent past, archaeological theory and practice and critical heritage studies, with field projects in Iceland, Norway and Russia.
Mats Burstroem is Professor of Archaeology at Stockholm University, Sweden. His research is focused on contemporary archaeology and the interplay between material remains and memory. Publications within this field include studies of a Third Reich arena in Germany, a refugee camp in Sweden, family belongings hidden in the ground in Estonia and a Soviet nuclear missile site in Cuba.
Caitlin DeSilvey is Professor of Cultural Geography at the University of Exeter, where she is Associate Director for Transdiciplinary Research at the Environment and Sustainability Institute. Her research explores the cultural significance of material change, with a particular focus on heritage contexts. She has published a number of edited books and journal articles; her monograph Curated Decay: Heritage Beyond Saving was published in 2017.
?ora Petursdottir is Associate Professor of Archaeology in the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History at the University of Oslo in Norway. Her research is predominantly focused on archaeology of the recent past, archaeological theory and practice and critical heritage studies, with field projects in Iceland, Norway and Russia.
Content
1 After Discourse: An Introduction; PART I Things: Writing, Nearing, Knowing; 2 Writing Things After Discourse; 3 Wild Things; 4 In the Presence of Things; 5 Thick Speech and Deep Time in the Anthropocene ; 6 On the Face of Things; PART II Affects: Sensing thingss; 7 The View from Somewhere: Liquid, Geologic, and Queer Bodies; 8 Stranded Stones and Settled Species: Affect and Effects of Ballast; 9 Out of the Day, Time and Life: Phenomenology and Cavescapes; 10 Ruins of Ruins: The Aura of Archaeological Remains; 11 What Remains? On Material Nostalgia; PART III Ethics: Caring for Things; 12 Touching Tactfully: The Impossible Community; 13 Foundered: Other Objects and the Ethics of Indifference; 14 Releasing the Visual Archive: On the Ethics of Destruction; 15 Through the Jackpile-Paguate Uranium Mine; 16 Towards a Post-Anthropocentric Ethic