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If anyone is looking for a session at the AAAs in Denver in November that will be very friendly and inviting to historical archaeology, consider participating in 'Critical Heritage Landscapes'. If interested, please email me, [log in to unmask], as soon as possible. The deadline for submitting is this Wednesday, April 15th. We have two openings left.
Session Abstract: Taking the idea of critical heritage landscapes as a framing device, the presenters in this session discuss the politics embedded in ‘doing’ global heritage and outline the tacit challenge in addressing environmental politics in stakeholder and non-Western contexts. Participants examine the socio-political contexts of how landscapes are imagined and defined in heritage contexts, and how this in turn shapes policies, epistemologies, and practices. Using the lens of heritage landscapes, and drawing from ethnographic, archaeological, archival, and discourse analyses, as well as the work of social theorists, we ask: What are the implications of landscapes as heritage? What are the political and historical realities interpreting and ‘making landscapes’? We ask participants to consider how specifically understandings of landscapes are engaged in a field of power. By taking seriously the idea that the categories of landscapes we create are in fact social constructions, papers in this session seek to tease out the plurality (and ambiguity) of experiences and histories within landscapes while examining the implications of applying largely western understandings and models to interpret and manage landscapes.
Organizer and Discussant: Melissa Baird, Ph.D
Chair: Brendan Pelto
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