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CONTEMPORARY ARCHAEOLOGY AND THE CITY Contemporary Archaeology and the City Creativity, Ruination, and Political Action Editedby LAURA MCATACKNEY AND KRYSTA RYZEWSKI 1 3 GreatClarendonStreet,Oxford,OX26DP, UnitedKingdom OxfordUniversityPressisadepartmentoftheUniversityofOxford. 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To our inspirational Bs! Acknowledgements First, we would like to thank the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropo- logical Research for providing us with the generous funding to support the international Archaeologies of the Present: Critical Engagements with Post- industrial Transformations workshop, held in August of 2014 at Wayne StateUniversityinDetroit.Itwasthemotivationforthisvolume.Thepapers thattheparticipantspreparedinadvancefortheworkshop,themultipledays spent touring contemporary archaeological landscapes around Detroit, and theemergentdiscussionsinspiredthevisionforandorganizationofthisbook. We are particularly thankful for the enthusiasm of our workshop grant administratorLaurieObbinkattheWenner-GrenFoundation. Ourmotivationtopursuetheworkshopfundingwasinspiredbythetenth anniversary of the UK-based Contemporary and Historical Archaeology in Theorygroup(CHAT).BothofusservedontheCHATStandingCommittee atthetimeofthefundingproposalandhaveattendedthemajorityofannual CHAT conferences since the first meeting in Bristol, 2003. We are especially thankful to our colleagues on the CHAT Standing Committees, past and present, for their encouragement of our ideas for this workshop and book, and more so for establishing the momentum for the approaches to contem- poraryarchaeologythatappearsinthefollowingcontributions.Ourthoughts about the intersections between anthropology, archaeology, and post- industrialcitieswereenrichedduringtheworkshopbyextendedconversations between the contributors and our urban anthropology colleagues in Detroit, including Andrew Newman, Julia Yezbick, and John Chenoweth. We also thank the anonymous reviewers, who provided excellent feedback on earlier versionsofthechapters,andoureditorsatOxfordUniversityPressCharlotte Loveridge and Tom Perridge for their support, advice, and encouragement. WeareindebtedtotheWayneStateUniversityDepartmentofAnthropology, theSchoolofSocialJusticeatUniversityCollegeDublin,andArchaeologyand Heritage Studies at Aarhus Universitet, as well as our graduate students, for their assistance during the workshop and publication processes. Krysta would also like to thank Kaitlin for her continued support, and Kazimir, for enlivening the publication process with his arrival in 2015. Laura would like to thank her family—especially her much-missed father, Alex—for their unwavering(ifreassuringlydisinterested)supportandJonforbeingawilling (andmuchappreciated)trailingspouse. viii Acknowledgements We are most grateful to all of our contributing authors for their inspiring contributions,collegialdialogue,andenthusiasticwillingnesstoparticipatein the process of asserting innovative and daring new directions for urban contemporary archaeology, from the inception of the workshop through to thefinalpublicationofthevolume. KrystaRyzewski LauraMcAtackney Detroit,Sept2016 Aarhus,Sept2016 Table of Contents ListofFiguresandTable xi ListofColourPlates xv NotesonContributors xvii Introduction—ContemporaryArchaeologyandtheCity: Creativity,Ruination,andPoliticalAction 1 LauraMcAtackneyandKrystaRyzewski SECTION I CREATIVITY 1. ArtistSpacesinBerlin:DefiningandRedefiningaCitythrough ContemporaryArchaeology 31 CarolynL.WhiteandStevenSeidenberg 2. CulturalHeritageandPoliticalEcology:AModestProposal fromIstanbulviaDetroit 51 IanAldenRussell 3. MakingMusicinDetroit:Archaeology,PopularMusic, andPost-industrialHeritage 69 KrystaRyzewski SECTION II RUINATION 4. EmbersfromtheHouseofBlazes:Fragments,Relics, RuinsofChicago 91 RebeccaS.Graff 5. CommemoratingMelbourne’sPast:Constructingand ContestingSpace,Time,andPublicMemoryin ContemporaryParkscapes 111 MadelineShanahanandBrianShanahan 6. RuinedbytheThirstforUrbanProsperity:Contemporary ArchaeologyofCityWaterSystems 132 AprilM.Beisaw 7. RuinsoftheSouth 149 AlfredoGonzález-Ruibal
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