Theme:
The archaeology of material culture, bodies and landscapes
Session format:
Session, made up of a combination of papers, max. 15 minutes each
Title:
Temporality and relationality in place-making
Content:
This session will examine temporality in the process of place-making by exploring the affective and relational bases for the continuity and reuse of places. Place continuity has often been approached as a sociopolitical strategy: the past, in the past, could serve to legitimate or contest claims to authority and ownership. Less explored have been the ways in which places, as immersive assemblages, constitute the affective and social milieux in which political claims alongside other kinds of action are constructed. Places with great time-depth may have affected inhabitants and visitors with notions of continuity, ancestry, sense of belonging, or else anxiety, awe, or subordination. Long-term accumulation of visible and non-visible structures, whether settlements, burials, urban centres or monuments, may furthermore orient actions and dispositions by providing a sense of place and place-in-time.
In essence, the saliency of place is a question of relationality across time. Therefore, papers from any period or geographical region that examine the emerging relationships among places and people, materials, and animals, are welcome. Papers examining the emotional experience of temporality in relation to place, and the effects and affects of deep time as part of place-making, are also warmly invited.
Keywords:
Time, relationality, place-making, affect, place-continuity
Session associated with MERC:
no
Session associated with CIfA:
no
Session associated with SAfA:
no
Main organiser:
Dr Marianne Hem Eriksen (Norway) 1,2
Co-organisers:
Dr Julie Lund (Norway) 1
Mr Kevin Kay (United Kingdom) 2
Affiliations:
1. University of Oslo
2. University of Cambridge
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