426 Pages 128 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

426 Pages 128 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

426 Pages 128 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

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 Sorensen

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 Memory

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

Biography

Torgeir Rinke Bangstad is a researcher at the Department of Archaeology, History, Religious Studies and Theology at UiT – The Arctic University of Norway.

Þóra Pétursdóttir is Associate Professor of Archaeology at the University of Oslo, Norway.