Call for papers:
We are editing a volume based on the "Landscapes of Clearance"
session at the World Archaeology Congress in 2003, and are interested
in expanding the global coverage of the volume. We would like to
include some new chapters, and are particularly interested in papers
that address the issues of the volume in the context of studies in
Asia, Africa, or South America. We have attached a book abstract
below.
If you are interested in contributing to this volume, please contact
Amy Gazin-Schwartz ([log in to unmask]) or Angele P. Smith
([log in to unmask]) with a title and a 150-200 word abstract by April
15.
Landscapes of Clearance
Editors:
Amy Gazin-Schwartz, Assumption College ([log in to unmask])
Angele P. Smith, University of Northern British Columbia ([log in to unmask])
The papers in this book address the archaeology of apparently
empty landscapes, demonstrating the complex and rich ways that
cleared landscapes have been created, inhabited, and endowed with
significance. Within the shared contexts of understanding the
significance of landscapes, chapters in the
book address such themes as the politics of memory and forgetting,
individual and community experiences of clearance, and the ways
ideology, identity, and diasporic experiences are linked.
Many of the papers speak to how we think about colonial and
post-colonial experiences of eviction and forced removal from the
landscape. They bring to that discussion a poignant understanding of
how rupture from one's sense of home, place, and belonging is a
meaningful reality. This has implications for understanding
ideologies of landscape in the recent historical past (a colonial
past), as well as the more distant (prehistoric) past. In a
postcolonial setting ethnographic archaeology of diasporic peoples,
as well as people who continue to inhabit, or re-inhabit cleared
landscapes and the impacts of war and violence are discussed.
Several papers also illustrate how resistance and cultural
reinvigoration can be centered on these landscapes.
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Amy Gazin-Schwartz
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Kennedy 213
Assumption College
500 Salisbury St
Worcester, MA 01373
508 767 7224
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