Alexander A Bauer
Biographic Data
| ID | 98538 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexander A Bauer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexander A |
| FAMILY NAME | Bauer |
| SIGNATURE | BAUER A A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queens College, CUNY |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7483-5727 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 123 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Beyond infrastructure: Exploring drivers of subjective cycling safety using directed acyclic graphs (DAG)
A key reason why people refrain from cycling is a lack of perceived safety. Past research clearly demonstrates that safety perceptions are not only a result of different cycling infrastructures but reflect differences in individual and social factors. However, it remains unclear what causes these differences, as many studies on cycling safety do not pay sufficient attention to causal structures. This study deploys contrafactual causal analysis to…
Comparative environmental life cycle assessment of urban green spaces and design elements – A case study in Vienna
Intensively maintained areas have higher environmental impact than extensively ones. • Maintenance phase of green spaces is an environmental hotspot. • Size effect of intensively maintained areas favors large areas over small ones. • Additional use of pathways within parks does not alter overall results. Urban green spaces are becoming increasingly important due to their multitude of ecosystem services. Until now, the focus of environmental impac…
Why Don’t They Travel? The Role of Constraints and Motivation for Non-Participation in Tourism
Between one-quarter and one-third of the population in developed economies do not travel, but our understanding of this group is rather limited. Studies looking at constraints and motivation often treat non-travelers as an homogeneous group compared to a spectrum of traveler types. Non-travel is also often implied as being a deficit rather than a voluntary decision. A mixed-method approach is applied in this study to explicitly explore the variet…
Interview with Alexander Bauer, outgoing editor of the Journal
Sophie Vigneron, incoming editor of the International Journal of Cultural Property, interviewed Alex Bauer, who was the journal's editor from 2003 to 2023. Alex is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Queens College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York, and Associate Director of the Sinop Region Archaeological Project, an interdisciplinary archaeological and heritage project on the landscapes and seascapes of the Black Sea co…
Vibrant Theory
A field study of ceramics bearing pan-Black Sea decorative motifs from Sinop, Turkey, using pXRF
Itineraries, iconoclasm, and the pragmatics of heritage
Recent calls across the world for removing monuments to White supremacy have brought widespread attention to the power of images and the role of heritage in society. A more careful examination of heritage's itineraries and pragmatics-its practical effects-is thus warranted. This paper interrogates the pragmatics of heritage in two ways. First, what are the discourses and rhetorics of heritage-how is heritage invoked and talked about, like a sign …
Preucel, Robert W.
Bauer, Alexander
International Journal of Cultural Property
World Heritage Journals
Sherratt, Andrew
Semiotics in Archaeological Theory
Pandemics and the role of culture
Pandemics creep up on us slowly, and without our suspecting, while we are distracted. Likewise, human experience shows that they recede gradually and without our noticing. For those in the eye of its storm-those that experience their devastating impact firsthand without the hope of an end in sight-they touch and shape their daily lives and their societies, in big and small ways. History shows, that across millennia, pandemics throw a harsh light …
Itinerant Objects
That the meanings and value of things can be transformed through their circulation was brought to the foreground of anthropological studies more than 30 years ago with the publication of The Social Life of Things (Appadurai 1986b). The last decade, however, has seen a move away from "object biographies" in favor of frameworks that better account for objects' complex entanglements. Recent work on object itineraries extends and challenges many elem…
Social Archaeologies of Trade and Exchange: Exploring Relationships among People, Places, and Things
This volume focuses on the anthropological concept of trade as a fundamentally social activity concerned not only with the movement of goods, but also on the social context and consequences of that exchange. The distinguished contributors discuss trade on a range of scales-from a solitary confinement cell to trans-oceanic networks-in settings around the world and over the past 3000 years. They address themes such as exchange as a communicative ac…
Objects and Their Glassy Essence: Semiotics of Self in the Early Bronze Age Black Sea
This article draws upon two concepts deployed by the American pragmatist philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce in his semiotic writings that have so far received little attention in studies of materiality and agency in archaeology, those of the “Interpretant” and “habit.” The emphasis of both of these concepts on the interpretive side of semiotic functioning suggests that some of the problems with current theories of material agency may be due to th…
Life is Too Short for Faint-Heartedness: The Archaeology of Andrew Sherratt
New directions in museum ethics
Art and Cultural Heritage: Law, Policy and Practice. By Barbara T. Hoffman, ed. and International Law, Museums, and the Return of Cultural Objects. By Ana Filipa Vrdoljak
The Terroir of Culture
Forschung an der Universität für Bodenkultur Wien (Boku)
Ein aktuelles BOKU-Projekt widmet sich der Frage, wie Biomasse effizienter für die Energieproduktion genutzt werden kann. Eine ganze Reihe von Projekten wird seit März 2007 im transdisziplinären Doktoratskolleg Nachhaltige Entwicklung (DOKNE) gebündelt. Worum es bei DOKNE im Detail geht, erläutert der Projektleiter
Instructions for Contributors
The International Journal of Cultural Property is a peer-reviewed journal which publishes papers and other materials representing a broad set of perspectives on problems relating to cultural property, cultural heritage, and related issues. Contributions are welcome from the wide variety of fields implicated in the debates-law, anthropology, public policy, archaeology, art history, preservation, museum-, tourism-, and heritage studies-and from a v…
Definitional Anxieties
(Re)Introducing the International Journal of Cultural Property
The term "cultural heritage" contains an inherent tension. On the one hand, "culture" suggests something dynamic: it represents the diverse values and practices of different social groups, which continually evolve as they interact with others and their membership changes. On the other hand, "heritage" (and likewise "property") implies something more clearly defined and static: it refers to a specific object or tradition passed on from generation …
Archaeological Pragmatics
To what extent is semiotics an appropriate model for understanding material culture meaning? The answer to this question, of course, depends upon the kinds of semiotics that one is talking about. In our article we argue that Saussurean and post-Saussurean approaches favored by some Post processualists are incomplete and advocate an alternative approach inspired by the 'other father'of semiotics, namely Charles Sanders Peirce
Itinerant Objects
That the meanings and value of things can be transformed through their circulation was brought to the foreground of anthropological studies more than 30 years ago with the publication of The Social Life of Things (Appadurai 1986b). The last decade, however, has seen a move away from "object biographies" in favor of frameworks that better account for objects' complex entanglements. Recent work on object itineraries extends and challenges many elem…
Is what you see all you get: Recognizing meaning in archaeology
Archaeologists wishing to interpret the meanings of artifacts, both symbolic and functional, have increasingly drawn from Saussure-inspired linguistic models as a way to 'read' the archaeological record. Such models, however, may not be appropriate for a number of reasons, and should be discarded in favor of a discourse-centered approach, which investigates meaning through practice, currently gaining popularity among American linguistic anthropol…
Itineraries, iconoclasm, and the pragmatics of heritage
Recent calls across the world for removing monuments to White supremacy have brought widespread attention to the power of images and the role of heritage in society. A more careful examination of heritage's itineraries and pragmatics-its practical effects-is thus warranted. This paper interrogates the pragmatics of heritage in two ways. First, what are the discourses and rhetorics of heritage-how is heritage invoked and talked about, like a sign …
Cities of the Sea: Maritime Trade and the Origin of Philistine Settlement in the Early Iron Age Southern Levant
The question of the origins of the Philistines, who settled in the southern Levant in the early Iron Age (12th century BC) has long been the subject of debate. Traditionally, they have been understood to lie with the ‘Sea Peoples,’ raiders who were thought to have wreaked havoc in the eastern Mediterranean at this time. A new conceptualization of the ‘Sea Peoples,’ phenomenon as the emergence of decentralized maritime trade leads to new questions…
Objects and Their Glassy Essence: Semiotics of Self in the Early Bronze Age Black Sea
This article draws upon two concepts deployed by the American pragmatist philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce in his semiotic writings that have so far received little attention in studies of materiality and agency in archaeology, those of the “Interpretant” and “habit.” The emphasis of both of these concepts on the interpretive side of semiotic functioning suggests that some of the problems with current theories of material agency may be due to th…
Life is Too Short for Faint-Heartedness: The Archaeology of Andrew Sherratt
Definitional Anxieties
(Re)Introducing the International Journal of Cultural Property
The term "cultural heritage" contains an inherent tension. On the one hand, "culture" suggests something dynamic: it represents the diverse values and practices of different social groups, which continually evolve as they interact with others and their membership changes. On the other hand, "heritage" (and likewise "property") implies something more clearly defined and static: it refers to a specific object or tradition passed on from generation …
Why Don’t They Travel? The Role of Constraints and Motivation for Non-Participation in Tourism
Between one-quarter and one-third of the population in developed economies do not travel, but our understanding of this group is rather limited. Studies looking at constraints and motivation often treat non-travelers as an homogeneous group compared to a spectrum of traveler types. Non-travel is also often implied as being a deficit rather than a voluntary decision. A mixed-method approach is applied in this study to explicitly explore the variet…
A field study of ceramics bearing pan-Black Sea decorative motifs from Sinop, Turkey, using pXRF
New directions in museum ethics
Cities of the Sea: Maritime Trade and the Origin of Philistine Settlement in the Early Iron Age Southern Levant
The question of the origins of the Philistines, who settled in the southern Levant in the early Iron Age (12th century BC) has long been the subject of debate. Traditionally, they have been understood to lie with the ‘Sea Peoples,’ raiders who were thought to have wreaked havoc in the eastern Mediterranean at this time. A new conceptualization of the ‘Sea Peoples,’ phenomenon as the emergence of decentralized maritime trade leads to new questions…
Archaeological Pragmatics
To what extent is semiotics an appropriate model for understanding material culture meaning? The answer to this question, of course, depends upon the kinds of semiotics that one is talking about. In our article we argue that Saussurean and post-Saussurean approaches favored by some Post processualists are incomplete and advocate an alternative approach inspired by the 'other father'of semiotics, namely Charles Sanders Peirce
Is what you see all you get: Recognizing meaning in archaeology
Archaeologists wishing to interpret the meanings of artifacts, both symbolic and functional, have increasingly drawn from Saussure-inspired linguistic models as a way to 'read' the archaeological record. Such models, however, may not be appropriate for a number of reasons, and should be discarded in favor of a discourse-centered approach, which investigates meaning through practice, currently gaining popularity among American linguistic anthropol…
Instructions for Contributors
The International Journal of Cultural Property is a peer-reviewed journal which publishes papers and other materials representing a broad set of perspectives on problems relating to cultural property, cultural heritage, and related issues. Contributions are welcome from the wide variety of fields implicated in the debates-law, anthropology, public policy, archaeology, art history, preservation, museum-, tourism-, and heritage studies-and from a v…
Definitional Anxieties
(Re)Introducing the International Journal of Cultural Property
The term "cultural heritage" contains an inherent tension. On the one hand, "culture" suggests something dynamic: it represents the diverse values and practices of different social groups, which continually evolve as they interact with others and their membership changes. On the other hand, "heritage" (and likewise "property") implies something more clearly defined and static: it refers to a specific object or tradition passed on from generation …
Forschung an der Universität für Bodenkultur Wien (Boku)
Ein aktuelles BOKU-Projekt widmet sich der Frage, wie Biomasse effizienter für die Energieproduktion genutzt werden kann. Eine ganze Reihe von Projekten wird seit März 2007 im transdisziplinären Doktoratskolleg Nachhaltige Entwicklung (DOKNE) gebündelt. Worum es bei DOKNE im Detail geht, erläutert der Projektleiter
The Terroir of Culture
Art and Cultural Heritage: Law, Policy and Practice. By Barbara T. Hoffman, ed. and International Law, Museums, and the Return of Cultural Objects. By Ana Filipa Vrdoljak
Life is Too Short for Faint-Heartedness: The Archaeology of Andrew Sherratt
New directions in museum ethics
Objects and Their Glassy Essence: Semiotics of Self in the Early Bronze Age Black Sea
This article draws upon two concepts deployed by the American pragmatist philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce in his semiotic writings that have so far received little attention in studies of materiality and agency in archaeology, those of the “Interpretant” and “habit.” The emphasis of both of these concepts on the interpretive side of semiotic functioning suggests that some of the problems with current theories of material agency may be due to th…
Social Archaeologies of Trade and Exchange: Exploring Relationships among People, Places, and Things
This volume focuses on the anthropological concept of trade as a fundamentally social activity concerned not only with the movement of goods, but also on the social context and consequences of that exchange. The distinguished contributors discuss trade on a range of scales-from a solitary confinement cell to trans-oceanic networks-in settings around the world and over the past 3000 years. They address themes such as exchange as a communicative ac…
Itinerant Objects
That the meanings and value of things can be transformed through their circulation was brought to the foreground of anthropological studies more than 30 years ago with the publication of The Social Life of Things (Appadurai 1986b). The last decade, however, has seen a move away from "object biographies" in favor of frameworks that better account for objects' complex entanglements. Recent work on object itineraries extends and challenges many elem…
Preucel, Robert W.
Bauer, Alexander
International Journal of Cultural Property
World Heritage Journals
Sherratt, Andrew
Semiotics in Archaeological Theory
Pandemics and the role of culture
Pandemics creep up on us slowly, and without our suspecting, while we are distracted. Likewise, human experience shows that they recede gradually and without our noticing. For those in the eye of its storm-those that experience their devastating impact firsthand without the hope of an end in sight-they touch and shape their daily lives and their societies, in big and small ways. History shows, that across millennia, pandemics throw a harsh light …
A field study of ceramics bearing pan-Black Sea decorative motifs from Sinop, Turkey, using pXRF
Itineraries, iconoclasm, and the pragmatics of heritage
Recent calls across the world for removing monuments to White supremacy have brought widespread attention to the power of images and the role of heritage in society. A more careful examination of heritage's itineraries and pragmatics-its practical effects-is thus warranted. This paper interrogates the pragmatics of heritage in two ways. First, what are the discourses and rhetorics of heritage-how is heritage invoked and talked about, like a sign …
Vibrant Theory
Interview with Alexander Bauer, outgoing editor of the Journal
Sophie Vigneron, incoming editor of the International Journal of Cultural Property, interviewed Alex Bauer, who was the journal's editor from 2003 to 2023. Alex is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Queens College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York, and Associate Director of the Sinop Region Archaeological Project, an interdisciplinary archaeological and heritage project on the landscapes and seascapes of the Black Sea co…
History (15 works) · Sociology (11 works) · History (10 works) · Geography (9 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Archaeology (8 works) · Archaeological Research and Protection (7 works) · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works)