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After Discourse

Things, Affects, Ethics
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After Discourse is an interdisciplinary exploration responding to the shift from linguistic and textual approaches towards an engagement with things and their effects. Featuring contributions from fields such as archaeology, heritage studies, history, geography, literature and philosophy, it reflects on the nature of things, our interactions with them, and the ethical questions these encounters raise. Through diverse case studies, the book addresses phenomena that lie beyond or resist purely language-based interpretations.
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Ideal for scholars and students interested in interdisciplinary studies, particularly those exploring alternative methods beyond textual analysis in understanding human relationships with objects and material culture.

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After Discourse is an interdisciplinary response to the recent trend away from linguistic and textual approaches and towards things and their affects.

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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.

Series: Routledge Archaeologies of the Contemporary World

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  • After Discourse
    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...
    Paperback
    $9199
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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780367190484

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 22 December 2020

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 1 Line drawings, black and white; 86 Halftones, black and white; 87 Illustrations, black and white

Contributors:

  • Edited by รžรณra Pรฉtursdรณttir
  • Edited by Bjรธrnar Olsen
  • Edited by Mats Burstrรถm
  • Edited by Caitlin DeSilvey

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 540g

Pages: 306

About the Author

Bjรธrnar J. Olsen is Professor of Archaeology at the UiT โ€“ The Arctic University of Norway. His research focuses on Sรกmi 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 Burstrรถm 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.

รžรณra Pรฉtursdรณttir 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.

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