Constructing the Future History

Prefiguration as Historical Epistemology and the Chronopolitics of Archaeology

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9309564
AutoresM Hegmon (0000-0002-9500-5685), L Borck (0000-0003-0037-7249, Leiden University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2019
Volumen5
Número2
Páginas229-238
Fecha de publicación2019-01-26
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Contemporary Archaeology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2051-3429 • E-ISSN: 2051-3437
EditorialEquinox Publishing (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1558/jca.33560
OpenAlexW2913564909
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas21

Archaeology is a process for, at minimum, constructing history from the material record. The decisions about what to use to create that history is unavoidably political. This political act primarily serves to construct and enforce the power of the state, although it can be used to contest it. Prefiguration, emerging from anarchist theory and parallel social movements, can be understood not simply as a radical practice, but also as an understanding of how history is constructed. It can be used to explain how history is constructed from past and contemporary archaeological decisions as well as the world and socio-political organizations that future history will naturalize

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