R Harrison
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4568 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | R Harrison |
| NOMBRES | R |
| APELLIDO | Harrison |
| FIRMA | HARRISON R |
| AFILIACIONES | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5030-0525 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 75 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 736 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 75 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1926 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 16 |
Carbon heritages
This themed section of IJHS explores the political dimensions of heritage and energy. Individual papers consider museological collections connected to extractive industries and petrocultures in Germany, South Korea and Portugal, commemorative practices surrounding the decline of coal in the UK, the emergence of new curatorial perspectives on gas extraction in the Netherlands, and the social and material impact of decarbonisation rhetoric on forme…
景德镇民窑千年变迁史 [Jingdezhen Civil Kilns
Reimagining the role of coal mining heritage in the context of the fortieth anniversary of the 1984–85 UK Miners’ strike, green energy transitions and the Carbocene
This paper considers the presentation of coal mining-related industrial heritage sites in the UK in the context of the conjuncture of the fortieth anniversary of the 1984–1985 UK miners’ strike, the closure of the last coal-fired power station in the UK and contemporary global transitions away from fossil fuels. In addition to the national coal mining museums in each of the devolved nations, I analyse a number of exhibitions, events and commemora…
Ghosts of solid air
This article critically reflects on the design and development of a new Augmented Reality (AR) experience addressing issues of contested heritage in the historic built environment. The experience – Ghosts of Solid Air – is a 45-minute interactive theatrical narrative for mobile phones that tells a critical story about the legacies of colonialism and histories of protest and disobedience that have shaped contemporary Britain. Audiences follow the …
Przekroczyć Podział Na Dziedzictwo „naturalne” I „kulturalne”
Antologia prezentuje szerokie spektrum problematyki podejmowanej w ramach krytycznych studiów nad dziedzictwem i jest pierwszą tego typu publikacją w Polsce kompleksowo zapoznającą czytelnika z tematem, który dotychczas w artykułach autorów krajowych
Czym Jest Dziedzictwo
Antologia prezentuje szerokie spektrum problematyki podejmowanej w ramach krytycznych studiów nad dziedzictwem i jest pierwszą tego typu publikacją w Polsce kompleksowo zapoznającą czytelnika z tematem, który dotychczas w artykułach autorów krajowych
When Loss is More
Within the heritage sector there is widespread recognition that the accelerating effects of climate and other changes will necessitate reconsideration of the care of at-risk places and properties. Heritage organisations and agencies are developing new ways to identify and measure future threats, and to prioritise resources accordingly. For some designated assets, it is becoming clear, it may be necessary to manage processes of decline and transfo…
Indigenous Meanings of Provenance in the Context of Alternative Food Movements and Supply-Chain Traceability
This article reviews the concept of provenance from both contemporary and traditional aspects. The incorporation of indigenous meanings and conceptualizations of belonging into provenance are explored. First, we consider how the gradual transformation of marketplaces into market and consumer activism catalyzed the need for provenance. Guided by this, we discuss the meaning of provenance from an indigenous and non-indigenous rationale. Driven by t…
Pasts otherwise
I am extremely sympathetic to the authors' critique of the term 'contact archaeology' and their argument that it detracts from the real inequalities and cultural and spatial dynamics of Indigenous and non-Indigenous colonial lifeworlds.It was precisely this concern that led me and several others during the late 1990s and 2000s, working with Indigenous collaborators and in dialogue with newly emergent perspectives on postcolonial and Indigenous hi…
Cleaning City Skies
Anticipating loss
Heritage relies, to a large extent, on notions of endangerment and consequential attempts to arrest or reverse processes of loss and change. The papers in this special issue engage critically with this underlying orientation, exploring the social and cultural work which is produced through efforts to avert loss. In doing so, the papers also point towards alternative ways of valuing objects, places and practices which are not solely determined by …
From ark to bank
This paper takes a critical approach to understanding the social and cultural\n‘work’ of natural heritage conservation, focussing specifically on ex-situ\nbiodiversity cryopreservation practices. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork\nwith the Frozen Ark, a UK-based ‘frozen zoo’ aiming to preserve the DNA of\nendangered animal species, the paper situates the development of nonhuman animal biobanks in relation to current anxieties regarding the\nantic…
Arqueologias de futuros e presentes emergentes
Este artigo traça a genealogia do subcampo que ficou conhecido como “arqueologia do passado contemporâneo” e argumenta por sua maior integração com o campo expandido da arqueologia histórica. Um dos desafios centrais da arqueologia nas próximas décadas será encontrar um modo de se engajar com fenômenos emergentes, contemporâneos e sócio materiais e, consequentemente, com questões – tanto contemporâneas quanto futuras – de interesse ecológico, soc…
Critical heritage studies beyond epistemic popularism
A response to the recent debate piece inAntiquityby González-Ruibalet al., examining the role of epistemic popularism in critical heritage studies and public archaeology
On Heritage Ontologies
This piece aims to serve both as a commentary on papers in this special collection as well as a more general observation of recent developments within the emerging interdisciplinary field of critical heritage studies. It explores a series of key theoretical influences which come together, with various emphases, across the collection. This exemplifies a developing strand of research which focuses on material and ontological approaches to heritage.…
Archaeologies of the Contemporary World
Archaeologists have long been interested in contemporary material culture, but only recently has a dedicated subfield of archaeology of the contemporary world begun to emerge. This article considers how the subfield might be characterized by its approaches to particular sources and its current and emerging thematic foci. A significant point of debate concerns the role of archaeology as a discipline through which to explore ongoing, contemporary s…
Freezing Seeds and Making Futures
This paper considers the temporal practices inherent in the work of global agrobiodiversity conservation, drawing on ongoing research with the Nordic Genetic Resource Centre and the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. It contrasts the distinctive, future-making practices inherent in the work of ex situ cold seed storage, with the normative, entropic view of the relationship of species diversity with time that arises from the field of biodiversity conserv…
Heritage Futures
Heritage Futures is a four-year collaborative international research programme (2015–2019) funded by a UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) ‘Care for the Future’ Theme Large Grant, and supported additionally by its host universities and partner organisations. The research programme involves ambitious interdisciplinary research to explore the potential for innovation and creative exchange across a broad range of heritage and related fiel…
Archaeologies of Emergent Presents and Futures
Scratching the surface
World Heritage listing and the globalization of the endangerment sensibility
This chapter argues the lists are intimately connected with the development of a contemporary endangerment sensibility. The documents focus of administrative work, become more instrumental than the actual places. The World Heritage Committee administers the nomination of places to a World Heritage List, including properties forming part of the cultural heritage and natural heritage. The chapter discusses with the example of Uluru-Kata Tjuta Natio…
Beyond “Natural” and “Cultural” Heritage
The critique of the separation of natural and cultural heritage is now well established. Rather than repeat arguments against what many would now acknowledge as an artificial separation, this paper considers the implications of working within the expanded field that is created for heritage when the dissolution of the boundaries between natural and cultural heritage is taken as given. I argue that embracing this dissolution allows us to reorient a…
Social Policy and Elderly People
Shared histories and the archaeology of the pastoral industry in Australia
About the book: The original papers collected in this pioneering volume address the historical archaeology of Aboriginal Australia and its application in researching the shared history of Aboriginal and settler Australians. The authors draw on case studies from across the continent to show how archaeology can illuminate the continuum of responses by indigenous Australians to European settlement and colonization. Taking an innovative approach to t…
Shared landscapes
Shows that pastoral heritage is more than just 'woolsheds and homesteads', the showpieces of white, male settler colonial economies. Pastoral heritage is the product of the mutual histories of Aboriginal and settler Australians. It is a form of heritage that is both in, and a part of, the landscape. His 'archaeological' approach to the heritage of the pastoral industry involves both recording sites and excavating attachments to community heritage…
After Modernity
After Modernity summarizes archaeological approaches to the contemporary past, and suggests a new agenda for the archaeology of late modern societies. The principal focus is the archaeology of developed, de-industrialized societies during the second half of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first. This period encompasses the end of the Cold War and the beginning of the 'internet age', a period which sits firmly within what we …
Community-based archaeology in Australia
Outside the Antipodes, Australian archaeology is best known as an archaeology of the distant Palaeolithic past. However, where communities have been closely involved in developing and undertaking archaeological research programs, the focus of archaeological research has been radically different, often dealing with the archaeology of the recent, remembered past and crossing disciplinary boundaries between Aboriginal and historical archaeology. Dis…
Forgetting to remember, remembering to forget
This paper considers the implications for cultural heritage of observations regarding individual and collective memory which suggest that the process of forgetting is in fact integral to remembering – that one cannot properly form new memories and attach value to them without also selecting some things to forget. Remembering is an active process of cultivating and pruning, and not one of complete archiving and total recall, which would overwhelm …
Surface assemblages. Towards an archaeology in and of the present
This paper explores a central paradox in the aims of the archaeology of the contemporary past as they have been articulated by its practitioners. On the one hand, its aim has been expressed as one of making the familiar 'unfamiliar', of distancing the observer from their own material world; a work of alienation. On the other hand, it has also aimed to make the past more accessible and egalitarian; to recover lost, subaltern voices and in this way…
An Artefact of Colonial Desire
This paper considers several areas of anthropological research which have yet to be drawn into conversation: Alfred Gells anthropological theory of art, the literature on collecting and museum studies and the colonial art histories of Nicholas Thomas and others, and the archaeology of colonialism in Australia. The implications of the nexus of these various areas of research are considered with reference to the archaeological study of Kimberley po…
Archaeology and the colonial encounter
This article examines the ways in which material objects are invoked and constantly recontextualized as part of the process of cross-cultural colonial encounter with reference to a case study from the northwest of Australia. The study examines the various contexts within which bifacially flaked 'Kimberley points' were manufactured, traded and consumed in post-invasion Australia, and implications for understanding the role of material objects in c…
Anticipating loss
Heritage relies, to a large extent, on notions of endangerment and consequential attempts to arrest or reverse processes of loss and change. The papers in this special issue engage critically with this underlying orientation, exploring the social and cultural work which is produced through efforts to avert loss. In doing so, the papers also point towards alternative ways of valuing objects, places and practices which are not solely determined by …
The Magical Virtue of These Sharp Things
Items of transformed material culture, in particular knapped bottle glass artefacts, have formed a focus for the archaeology of Aboriginal-settler contact in Australia. This article considers the idea of glass artefacts as skeuomorphsthrough the lens of Gell's and Taussig's writings regarding mimesis and the construction of 'Other'-ness in colonial relations. As in the case of Benjamin's discussion of the photographic reproduction of artworks as …
Archaeologies of the Contemporary World
Archaeologists have long been interested in contemporary material culture, but only recently has a dedicated subfield of archaeology of the contemporary world begun to emerge. This article considers how the subfield might be characterized by its approaches to particular sources and its current and emerging thematic foci. A significant point of debate concerns the role of archaeology as a discipline through which to explore ongoing, contemporary s…
On Heritage Ontologies
This piece aims to serve both as a commentary on papers in this special collection as well as a more general observation of recent developments within the emerging interdisciplinary field of critical heritage studies. It explores a series of key theoretical influences which come together, with various emphases, across the collection. This exemplifies a developing strand of research which focuses on material and ontological approaches to heritage.…
Introduction
This special issue contributes to an emerging literature on the materialities of colonial government by considering the changing relations between practices of data collecting, styles of anthropological knowing and modes of governing which target the conduct of colonial and metropolitan populations. Drawing on comparative studies from Australia; the Australian administered territory of Papua; France; French Indo-China; New Zealand; North America …
Archaeologies of Emergent Presents and Futures
Kimberley points and colonial preference
Based on recent archaeological research in the southeast Kimberley this paper argues that while bifacially pressure flaked points are clearly present in the archaeological record from c. 1400‐l000calBP, Kimberley point manufacture reached its zenith only after AD1885, when there was both an intensification in the numbers of points produced, and increasing formalisation of point design. Changes in the numbers and formalisation of the shape of poin…
Nowadays with glass
This paper builds on the few well known analyses of glass artefacts by recognising that bottle shape strongly influences glass artefact morphology in glass tool manufacture. Analysis of Aboriginally worked glass artefacts, using similar bottles, from two regions in Western Australia show differences that cannot be attributed to regional variation in raw materials. These differences may relate to long term approaches to artefact manufacture
Freezing Seeds and Making Futures
This paper considers the temporal practices inherent in the work of global agrobiodiversity conservation, drawing on ongoing research with the Nordic Genetic Resource Centre and the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. It contrasts the distinctive, future-making practices inherent in the work of ex situ cold seed storage, with the normative, entropic view of the relationship of species diversity with time that arises from the field of biodiversity conserv…
Archaeo-Ethnography, Auto-Archaeology
Coastal shell middens of the Abydos coastal plain, Western Australia
Middens and mounds dominated by Anadara granosa began to be formed on the Abydos Coastal Plain sometime between 4400 and 5300 calibrated years before present, and while mounds appear to have ceased forming some 1800–1600 years ago, middens continued to form until the early twentieth century or later. In some cases, the earliest of these middens and shell mounds formed on top of older middens from which Anadara granosa is totally absent, and in wh…
Observing, Collecting and Governing "Ourselves" and "Others
This paper explores the relationship between oligoptic visual economies and liberal technologies of government which emerge from a consideration of the field collecting practices of Mass-Observation (MO), a social research movement established in the years leading up to the outbreak of the Second World War which attempted to develop an anthropology of British “everyday” life. Focussing on MO's fieldwork agencements, the paper shows how the projec…
From ark to bank
This paper takes a critical approach to understanding the social and cultural\n‘work’ of natural heritage conservation, focussing specifically on ex-situ\nbiodiversity cryopreservation practices. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork\nwith the Frozen Ark, a UK-based ‘frozen zoo’ aiming to preserve the DNA of\nendangered animal species, the paper situates the development of nonhuman animal biobanks in relation to current anxieties regarding the\nantic…
Exorcising the 'plague of fantasies
Taking as its starting point Slavoj Žižek's (1997) The Plague of Fantasies, this paper considers how the electronic mediascape and its contagious practices have come to dominate all areas of contemporary reportage and history-making. It suggests that Web 2.0's reliance on 'mob thinking' and 'wiki-histories' can lead to a rapid and widespread erasure of alternative accounts and non-dominant narratives. Against this background, the paper explores t…
Excavating Second Life
While the anthropology of online communities has emerged as a significant area of research, there has been little discussion of the possibilities of the archaeology of virtual settlements, defined here as interactive synthetic environments in which users are sensually immersed and which respond to user input. Bartle (in Designing Virtual Worlds, 2003: 1) has described such virtual settlements as `places where the imaginary meets the real'. In thi…
Dynamics Of Dispersion Revisited? Archaeological Context and the Study of Aboriginal Knapped Glass Artefacts in Australia
The archaeological study of Aboriginal knapped glass artefacts in Australia has focused almost entirely on glass tool production, and more particularly, on the technology of glass tool production (as opposed, for example, to the social context of glass tool production). In this paper, we suggest the value of an approach which foregrounds context in an attempt to point towards new directions for knapped glass artefact studies in Australia. We make…
Archaeologies of Archaeologies of the Contemporary Past
This interview with Victor Buchli and Gavin Lucas was undertaken over email during the Summer / Autumn of 2013 and coordinated by Alfredo González-Ruibal on behalf of the editorial team: Alfredo González-Ruibal, Rodney Harrison, Cornelius Holtorf and Laurie Wilkie. An initial set of questions was drafted and agreed amongst members of the editorial team, and a series of follow-up questions (indicated by the presence of author’s initials) were subs…
Towards an Archaeology of the Welfare State in Britain, 1945–2009
The archaeology of the Port Hedland coastal plain and implications for understanding the prehistory of shell mounds and middens in northwestern Australia
This paper reports the archaeological salvage, radiocarbon dating and analysis of seven shell midden sites located south of Port Hedland, and makes observations regarding the archaeology of the Port Hedland region and the Abydos coastal plain. The excavations revealed an almost continuous sequence of archaeological sites dating between 5250calBP and 50calBP years. These include some of the earliest and latest radiocarbon ages associated with Anad…
Extra Supplement
Military psychology in the Armored School
A note on the reliability of the Thematic Apperception Test
Forty Years of Arctic
When the Arctic Institute of North America was established in 1945 as a membership institution, it was understood that the membership expected the Institute to publish a journal. It appeared for the first time in 1948, as Arctic, The Journal of the Arctic Institute of North America, and has been published continuously for 40 years since then. It is now a leading academic journal publishing research papers from a variety of disciplines on a wide r…
The Body of Beatrice
The Body of Beatrice
The Western Canon
Lead poisoning among US Hispanic children
Lead poisoning among US Hispanic children. O Carter-Pokras, and R HarrisonCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.86.10.1479 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Shorter Notices
SHORTER NOTICES Get access ROYDEN HARRISON ROYDEN HARRISON University of Warwick Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXII, Issue 449, November 1997, Pages 1308-b–1309, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXII.449.1308-b Published: 01 November 1997
XIII World Meeting, International Society for Research on Aggression
Recent hospital-based epidemiological research (e.g.Sullivan & Knutson, 1998) has confirmed the putative link between child maltreatment and the presence of disabilities.Although that research provided suggestive evidence that disabilities could be seen as risk factors for maltreatment, limitations of the design and the archival nature of some data precluded strong inferences regarding the hypothesis that disability occasions risk for abuse.Withi…
Not Ideas about the Thing but the Thing Itself
New Literary History - Volume 30, Number 3, Summer 1999
The OCR carbon Dating procedure in Australia
Dates obtained using the newly developed absolute dating technique, the OCR Carbon Dating procedure, from an Aboriginal rockshelter site in the southeast Kimberley Western Australia, have been paired with conventional radiocarbon determinations to assess its usefulness in estimating the ages of soils in Australian archaeological contexts. The OCR procedure measures the site-specific rate of biodegradation of organic carbon in soils, which under m…
Nowadays with glass
This paper builds on the few well known analyses of glass artefacts by recognising that bottle shape strongly influences glass artefact morphology in glass tool manufacture. Analysis of Aboriginally worked glass artefacts, using similar bottles, from two regions in Western Australia show differences that cannot be attributed to regional variation in raw materials. These differences may relate to long term approaches to artefact manufacture
Self-reported physical health among older surrogate parents to children orphaned and affected by HIV disease
Around the globe, older relatives, largely grandparents, have become the surrogate parents to children and adolescents orphaned by parental death from HIV/AIDS and to those whose infected parents are too ill to serve as their primary caregivers. Largely invisible to research, programme and policy initiatives, these older surrogate parents face compounded stress and the risk of neglected and compromised health. An exploratory study of third- and f…
Community-based archaeology in Australia
Outside the Antipodes, Australian archaeology is best known as an archaeology of the distant Palaeolithic past. However, where communities have been closely involved in developing and undertaking archaeological research programs, the focus of archaeological research has been radically different, often dealing with the archaeology of the recent, remembered past and crossing disciplinary boundaries between Aboriginal and historical archaeology. Dis…
Archaeology and the colonial encounter
This article examines the ways in which material objects are invoked and constantly recontextualized as part of the process of cross-cultural colonial encounter with reference to a case study from the northwest of Australia. The study examines the various contexts within which bifacially flaked 'Kimberley points' were manufactured, traded and consumed in post-invasion Australia, and implications for understanding the role of material objects in c…
The Dominion of the Dead
"How do the living maintain relations to the dead? Why do we bury people when they die? And what is at stake when we do? In The Dominion of the Dead, Robert Pogue Harrison considers the supreme importance of these questions to Western civilization, exploring the many places where the dead cohabit the world of the living - the graves, images, literature, architecture, and monuments that house the dead in their afterlife among us." "This work devot…
The Magical Virtue of These Sharp Things
Items of transformed material culture, in particular knapped bottle glass artefacts, have formed a focus for the archaeology of Aboriginal-settler contact in Australia. This article considers the idea of glass artefacts as skeuomorphsthrough the lens of Gell's and Taussig's writings regarding mimesis and the construction of 'Other'-ness in colonial relations. As in the case of Benjamin's discussion of the photographic reproduction of artworks as …
Thesis Abstracts
Kimberley points and colonial preference
Based on recent archaeological research in the southeast Kimberley this paper argues that while bifacially pressure flaked points are clearly present in the archaeological record from c. 1400‐l000calBP, Kimberley point manufacture reached its zenith only after AD1885, when there was both an intensification in the numbers of points produced, and increasing formalisation of point design. Changes in the numbers and formalisation of the shape of poin…
An Artefact of Colonial Desire
This paper considers several areas of anthropological research which have yet to be drawn into conversation: Alfred Gells anthropological theory of art, the literature on collecting and museum studies and the colonial art histories of Nicholas Thomas and others, and the archaeology of colonialism in Australia. The implications of the nexus of these various areas of research are considered with reference to the archaeological study of Kimberley po…
On Kimberley Points and the Politics of Enchantment
Dynamics Of Dispersion Revisited? Archaeological Context and the Study of Aboriginal Knapped Glass Artefacts in Australia
The archaeological study of Aboriginal knapped glass artefacts in Australia has focused almost entirely on glass tool production, and more particularly, on the technology of glass tool production (as opposed, for example, to the social context of glass tool production). In this paper, we suggest the value of an approach which foregrounds context in an attempt to point towards new directions for knapped glass artefact studies in Australia. We make…
Towards an Archaeology of the Welfare State in Britain, 1945–2009
Archaeo-Ethnography, Auto-Archaeology
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