Dear Colleagues,

Dan Trepal and I are organizing a session on postindustrial archaeology and
heritage for this year's conference. The session abstract is below, and it
is also visible in the SHA submission system. If you are interested in
participating, please contact us at [log in to unmask] or
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Best wishes,
Kaeleigh Herstad

Postindustrial Landscapes, Communities, and Heritage

Archaeologists have become adept at understanding urban and industrial
sites through a study of material remains. However, such work increasingly
takes place in a postindustrial context, where ongoing processes of
ruination or decay, social conflict, environmental damage, and economic
stagnation are seen as defining features of the physical and social
landscape. What types of challenges does this environment pose for
archaeologists, and what opportunities does it offer for archaeology to
better serve and enrich the public? This session gathers presenters from
Urban, Industrial, and Contemporary Archaeologies and Heritage Studies to
demonstrate the ways in which understandings of postindustrial remains take
archaeologists in new directions, and how archaeologists may play a useful
role within contemporary postindustrial communities.


-- 
Kaeleigh Herstad
Ph.D. Candidate
Anthropology Department
Indiana University