Heritage as stratum
A method of negotiating the Anthropocene
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21158076 |
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| Authors | Zahra Hussain (0000-0002-8742-1101), Zafar I Hussain (0000-0003-4945-6247), Somana Riaz |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 181-202 |
| Publication date | 2025-08-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Visual Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1470-4129 • E-ISSN: 1741-2994 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/14704129251381722 |
| OpenAlex | W4416298731 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 21 |
This article explores a mapping practice that infers heritage as stratum; both as a concept which problematizes its appearance as a stable entity, as well as material through which possible futures can be negotiated with earth-others. We open up the concept of stratigraphy as a way of visualizing the earth across time dealing with material, formations and events. We employed this experimental mapping method in the Hindu Kush Himalayas that embodies fragilities of the Anthropocene manifesting in accelerated glacial melt and ongoing geological formations. Material and immaterial heritage and their relations were visualized as they get attuned to formations and deformations of matter, memory and imagination surfacing how landscapes are shaped and maintained in a changing climate. We explore these through three modes of negotiating the changing landscape: acts of relevance, repair, and remembrance, each offering a non-sequential temporality of heritage in attempts to craft possible futures
Anthropocene · Craft · Cultural heritage · Futures contract · Negotiation · Temporality · Values · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
| Highly cited | No |
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