Anatolijs Venovcevs
Biographic Data
| ID | 256903 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anatolijs Venovcevs |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anatolijs |
| FAMILY NAME | Venovcevs |
| SIGNATURE | VENOVCEVS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | UiT The Arctic University of Norway |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9231-2364 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Material imaginaries of the new iron curtain
The “social imaginary” has been critiqued for its overly deterministic qualities and resemblance to concepts of culture. Our article interrogates the materiality of the indeterminate at a time of heightened global uncertainty. Furthering a rapid response, material methodology in anthropology, we examine objects, animals, and infrastructures that disrupt and reinscribe border imaginaries in differential and unexpected ways in Sør-Varanger, on the …
The fungal lives of ruins
Recent literature within archaeology and heritage studies has highlighted the need for multispecies and more-than-human approaches that go beyond human exceptionalism in the past and within the remains of the past in the present. Responding to these developments, this paper highlights a previously underrepresented group of cohabitants within human societies and their ruins – fungi. The paper demonstrates the need to account for fungi in archaeolo…
The Scarcity of a Long Unbroken Winter
Innovation and adaptability can flourish during periods of prolonged seclusion and separation. This paper explores the intersections of isolation, innovation, and connectivity through the winter house tradition, an occasionally derided but necessary practice for many early modern settlers in Newfoundland and Labrador. Discussions are woven around themes of architecture, resource extraction, provisioning strategies, consumption, reuse/repair, leis…
Industrial Vestiges
This article offers a different way to understand the heritage of extractive industries by exploring the material afterlives of what has been termed the "ancillary impacts of resource development"-a variety of quarries, forest cuts, transportation corridors, and power lines that surround industrial operations, especially those created in areas distant from established industrial population centers. To study this, the article expands upon the conc…
Ambiguous Matter
This paper explores mine waste that originates from resource extraction by specifically focusing on waste rock, tailings, dust and material culture from the resource extraction industry. By drawing on examples from fieldwork, archives, local media commentary and limited interviews from two iron-mining regions in Arctic Norway and sub-Arctic Canada, this paper follows mine waste as it routinely transgresses attempts to be managed. Mine waste spill…
Living with Heritage
Heritage has come to be understood as a set of valued objects, landscapes and prac-tices to be preserved and maintained for the benefit of present and future generations (Harrison 2020, 20–31). In recent years, commitments to safeguard and care for heritage have proliferated, fuelled by perceptions of threat that urge caretakers to act before it is too late (Holtorf 2015; DeSilvey and Harrison 2020). This rhetoric has been exacerbated by the glob…
A contemporary archaeology of pandemic
Global crises drastically alter human behavior, rapidly impacting patterns of movement and consumption. A rapid-response analysis of material culture brings new perspective to disasters as they unfold. We present a case study of the coronavirus pandemic in Tromsø, Norway, based on fieldwork from March 2020 to April 2021. Using a methodology rooted in social distancing and through systematic, diachronic, and spatial analysis of trash (e.g., discar…
How to Record Current Events like an Archaeologist
This article shows how to record current events from an archaeological perspective. With a case study from the COVID-19 pandemic in Norway, we provide accessible tools to document broad spatial and behavioral patterns through material culture as they emerge. Stressing the importance of ethical engagement with contemporary subjects, we adapt archaeological field methods—including geolocation, photography, and three-dimensional modeling—to analyze …
Living with socialism
Playing with Fire
A contemporary archaeology of pandemic
Global crises drastically alter human behavior, rapidly impacting patterns of movement and consumption. A rapid-response analysis of material culture brings new perspective to disasters as they unfold. We present a case study of the coronavirus pandemic in Tromsø, Norway, based on fieldwork from March 2020 to April 2021. Using a methodology rooted in social distancing and through systematic, diachronic, and spatial analysis of trash (e.g., discar…
Living with socialism
Living with Heritage
Heritage has come to be understood as a set of valued objects, landscapes and prac-tices to be preserved and maintained for the benefit of present and future generations (Harrison 2020, 20–31). In recent years, commitments to safeguard and care for heritage have proliferated, fuelled by perceptions of threat that urge caretakers to act before it is too late (Holtorf 2015; DeSilvey and Harrison 2020). This rhetoric has been exacerbated by the glob…
Playing with Fire
How to Record Current Events like an Archaeologist
This article shows how to record current events from an archaeological perspective. With a case study from the COVID-19 pandemic in Norway, we provide accessible tools to document broad spatial and behavioral patterns through material culture as they emerge. Stressing the importance of ethical engagement with contemporary subjects, we adapt archaeological field methods—including geolocation, photography, and three-dimensional modeling—to analyze …
Industrial Vestiges
This article offers a different way to understand the heritage of extractive industries by exploring the material afterlives of what has been termed the "ancillary impacts of resource development"-a variety of quarries, forest cuts, transportation corridors, and power lines that surround industrial operations, especially those created in areas distant from established industrial population centers. To study this, the article expands upon the conc…
Playing with Fire
Living with socialism
How to Record Current Events like an Archaeologist
This article shows how to record current events from an archaeological perspective. With a case study from the COVID-19 pandemic in Norway, we provide accessible tools to document broad spatial and behavioral patterns through material culture as they emerge. Stressing the importance of ethical engagement with contemporary subjects, we adapt archaeological field methods—including geolocation, photography, and three-dimensional modeling—to analyze …
Ambiguous Matter
This paper explores mine waste that originates from resource extraction by specifically focusing on waste rock, tailings, dust and material culture from the resource extraction industry. By drawing on examples from fieldwork, archives, local media commentary and limited interviews from two iron-mining regions in Arctic Norway and sub-Arctic Canada, this paper follows mine waste as it routinely transgresses attempts to be managed. Mine waste spill…
Living with Heritage
Heritage has come to be understood as a set of valued objects, landscapes and prac-tices to be preserved and maintained for the benefit of present and future generations (Harrison 2020, 20–31). In recent years, commitments to safeguard and care for heritage have proliferated, fuelled by perceptions of threat that urge caretakers to act before it is too late (Holtorf 2015; DeSilvey and Harrison 2020). This rhetoric has been exacerbated by the glob…
A contemporary archaeology of pandemic
Global crises drastically alter human behavior, rapidly impacting patterns of movement and consumption. A rapid-response analysis of material culture brings new perspective to disasters as they unfold. We present a case study of the coronavirus pandemic in Tromsø, Norway, based on fieldwork from March 2020 to April 2021. Using a methodology rooted in social distancing and through systematic, diachronic, and spatial analysis of trash (e.g., discar…
Industrial Vestiges
This article offers a different way to understand the heritage of extractive industries by exploring the material afterlives of what has been termed the "ancillary impacts of resource development"-a variety of quarries, forest cuts, transportation corridors, and power lines that surround industrial operations, especially those created in areas distant from established industrial population centers. To study this, the article expands upon the conc…
Material imaginaries of the new iron curtain
The “social imaginary” has been critiqued for its overly deterministic qualities and resemblance to concepts of culture. Our article interrogates the materiality of the indeterminate at a time of heightened global uncertainty. Furthering a rapid response, material methodology in anthropology, we examine objects, animals, and infrastructures that disrupt and reinscribe border imaginaries in differential and unexpected ways in Sør-Varanger, on the …
The fungal lives of ruins
Recent literature within archaeology and heritage studies has highlighted the need for multispecies and more-than-human approaches that go beyond human exceptionalism in the past and within the remains of the past in the present. Responding to these developments, this paper highlights a previously underrepresented group of cohabitants within human societies and their ruins – fungi. The paper demonstrates the need to account for fungi in archaeolo…
The Scarcity of a Long Unbroken Winter
Innovation and adaptability can flourish during periods of prolonged seclusion and separation. This paper explores the intersections of isolation, innovation, and connectivity through the winter house tradition, an occasionally derided but necessary practice for many early modern settlers in Newfoundland and Labrador. Discussions are woven around themes of architecture, resource extraction, provisioning strategies, consumption, reuse/repair, leis…
Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation (5 works) · History (5 works) · History (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Business (3 works)