Constructing the Future History

Prefiguration as Historical Epistemology and the Chronopolitics of Archaeology

Dados Bibliográficos

ID9309564
AutoresM Hegmon (0000-0002-9500-5685), L Borck (0000-0003-0037-7249, Leiden University, autor correspondente)
Ano2019
Volume5
Fascículo2
Páginas229-238
Data de publicação2019-01-26
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Contemporary Archaeology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2051-3429 • E-ISSN: 2051-3437
EditoraEquinox Publishing (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1558/jca.33560
OpenAlexW2913564909
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas21

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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