The New Nomadic Age; Archaeologies of Forced and Undocumented Migration; Yannis Hamilakis

Edited by

Yannis Hamilakis [+–]

Brown University

Yannis Hamilakis is Joukowsky Family Professor of Archaeology and Professor of Modern Greek Studies at the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown University, and Co-Director of the Koutroulou Magoula Archaeology and Archaeological Ethnography Project. His research interests include the socio-politics of the past in the present, archaeological ethnography, the archaeology of bodily senses, zooarchaeology, and Aegean prehistory. Recent publications include Archaeology and European Modernity: Producing and Consuming the ‘Minoans’ (Padua: Also Ausilio/Bottega D’Erasmo, 2006) (co-edited with N. Momigliano), The Nation and its Ruins: Antiquity, Archaeology and National Imagination in Greece(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007-winner of the 2009 Edmund Keeley Book Prize) and Archaeological Ethnographies, Public Archaeology, special double issue, Volume 8, 2-3 (London: Maney, 2009), co-edited with Aris Anagnostopoulos.

It can be suggested that today we live in a new nomadic age, an age of global movement and migration. For the majority of people on earth, however, especially from the global south, crossing national borders and moving from the global south to the global north is risky, perilous, often lethal. Many are forced or compelled to migrate due to war, persecution, or the structural violence of poverty and deprivation. The phenomenon of forced and undocumented migration is one of the defining features of our era. And while the topic is at the centre of attention and study in many scholarly fields, the materiality of the phenomenon and its sensorial and mnemonic dimensions are barely understood and analysed. In this regard, contemporary archaeology can make an immense contribution. This book, the first archaeological anthology on the topic, takes up the challenge and explores the diverse intellectual, methodological, ethical, and political frameworks for an archaeology of forced and undocumented migration in the present. Matters of historical depth, theory, method, ethics and politics as well as heritage value and public representation are investigated and analysed, adopting a variety of perspectives. The book contains both short reflections and more substantive treatments and case studies from around the world, from the Mexico-USA border to Australia, and utilizes a diversity of narrative formats, including several photographic essays.
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Preliminaries

List of Figures [+–] vii-x

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It can be suggested that today we live in a new nomadic age, an age of global movement and migration. For the majority of people on earth, however, especially from the global south, crossing national borders and moving from the global south to the global north is risky, perilous, often lethal. Many are forced or compelled to migrate due to war, persecution, or the structural violence of poverty and deprivation. The phenomenon of forced and undocumented migration is one of the defining features of our era. And while the topic is at the centre of attention and study in many scholarly fields, the materiality of the phenomenon and its sensorial and mnemonic dimensions are barely understood and analysed. In this regard, contemporary archaeology can make an immense contribution. This book, the first archaeological anthology on the topic, takes up the challenge and explores the diverse intellectual, methodological, ethical, and political frameworks for an archaeology of forced and undocumented migration in the present. Matters of historical depth, theory, method, ethics and politics as well as heritage value and public representation are investigated and analysed, adopting a variety of perspectives. The book contains both short reflections and more substantive treatments and case studies from around the world, from the Mexico-USA border to Australia, and utilizes a diversity of narrative formats, including several photographic essays. Chapter 17 is freely available under Creative Commons License BY 4.0 here

List of Tables [+–] xi

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It can be suggested that today we live in a new nomadic age, an age of global movement and migration. For the majority of people on earth, however, especially from the global south, crossing national borders and moving from the global south to the global north is risky, perilous, often lethal. Many are forced or compelled to migrate due to war, persecution, or the structural violence of poverty and deprivation. The phenomenon of forced and undocumented migration is one of the defining features of our era. And while the topic is at the centre of attention and study in many scholarly fields, the materiality of the phenomenon and its sensorial and mnemonic dimensions are barely understood and analysed. In this regard, contemporary archaeology can make an immense contribution. This book, the first archaeological anthology on the topic, takes up the challenge and explores the diverse intellectual, methodological, ethical, and political frameworks for an archaeology of forced and undocumented migration in the present. Matters of historical depth, theory, method, ethics and politics as well as heritage value and public representation are investigated and analysed, adopting a variety of perspectives. The book contains both short reflections and more substantive treatments and case studies from around the world, from the Mexico-USA border to Australia, and utilizes a diversity of narrative formats, including several photographic essays. Chapter 17 is freely available under Creative Commons License BY 4.0 here

Preface

Preface [+–] xiii-xiv

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Brown University

Introduction

Archaeologies of Forced and Undocumented Migration [+–] 1-19

Yannis Hamilakis £17.50

Brown University

Chapter 1

The 1947 Partition of India and Pakistan: Migration, Material Landscapes, and the Making of Nations [+–] 20-28

Erin P Riggs,Zahida Rehman Jat £17.50

Binghamton University

Binghamton University Anthropology Department. PhD Student

University of Sindh, Pakistan

Zahida Rehman Jat is Lecturer of Anthropology at the University of Sindh.

Chapter 2

“We Palestinian Refugees” – Heritage Rites and/as the Clothing of Bare Life: Reconfiguring Paradox, Obligation, and Imperative in Palestinian Refugee Camps in Jordan [+–] 29-41

Beverley Butler,Fatima Al-Nammari £17.50

UCL Institute of Archaeology

Reader in Critical Heritage Studies

Petra University, Jordan

Fatima Al-Nammari is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture at the University of Petra and an Honorary Research Associate at UCL.

Chapter 3

Surveilling Surveillance: Countermapping Undocumented Migration in the USA-Mexico Borderlands [+–] 42-57

Haeden Eli Stewart,Ian Osterreicher,Cameron Gokee,Jason De Leon £17.50

University of Chicago

PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology

University of Cambridge

Ian Ostericher is a PhD candidate in Archaeology at the University of Cambridge.

Appalachian State University

Cameron Gokee is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Appalachian State University. His research focuses on the interplay between village communities and historical landscapes in the Senegambia region of West Africa.

University of Michigan

Jason De León is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan and Director of the Undocumented Migration Project.

Chapter 4

Place Making in Non-Places: Migrant Graffiti in Rural Highway Box Culverts [+–] 58-79

Gabriella Soto £17.50

University of Arizona

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Doctoral Candidate, School of Anthropology

Chapter 5

The Materiality of the State of Exception: Components of the Experience of Deportation from the United States [+–] 80-86

Agnieszka Radziwinowiczówna £17.50

Centre of Migration Research University of Warsaw

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Research Assistant Centre of Migration Research University of Warsaw;
PhD student, Institute of Sociology Univerisity of Warsaw

Chapter 6

Lessons from the Bakken Oil Patch [+–] 87-96

William Caraher,Bret Weber,Richard Rothaus £17.50

University of North Dakota

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William Caraher is an Associate Professor in history at the University of North Dakota.

University of North Dakota

Bret Weber is an Associate Professor in history at the University of North Dakota.

Trefoil Cultural and Environmental

Richard Rothaus holds a PhD from the Ohio State University and currently runs Trefoil Cultural and Environmental, a privately owned cultural resource management firm.

Chapter 7

Empty Migrant Rooms: An Anthropology of Absence through the Camera Lens [+–] 97-107

Eckehard Pistrick,Florian Bachmeier £17.50

Martin-Luther Universität Halle-Wittenberg

Eckehard Pistrick is a Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer in Ethnomusicology at Martin-Luther Universität Halle-Wittenberg.

n-Ost Network for Reporting on Eastern Europe, Germany

Florian Bachmeier is a socially engaged photographer with n-Ost Network for Reporting on Eastern Europe who has extensively reported on the conflict in eastern Ukraine and the “refugee crisis” in Greece.

Chapter 8

If Place Remotely Matters: Camped in Greece’s Contingent Countryside [+–] 108-120

Kostis Kourelis £17.50

Franklin and Marshall College

Kostis Kourelis is an Associate Professor of Art History at Franklin & Marshall College.

Chapter 9

Orange Life Jackets: Materiality and Narration in Lesvos, One Year after the Eruption of the “Refugee Crisis” [+–] 121-126

George Tyrikos-Ergas £17.50

University of Ioannina/ University of Durham

George Tyrikos-Ergas holds a PhD in Folkore (University of Ioannina). He is currently Research Associate at Durham University’s Anthropology Department in “Transitory Lives”, an ESRC-funded comparative study of the migration crisis in the Mediterranean. He is a co-founder and frontline activist of the “Agkalia” team in Lesvos, Greece (Raul Wallenberg Prize of the Council of Europe for 2016).

Chapter 10

Interrupted Journeys: Drawings by Refugees at the Kara Tepe Camp, Lesvos, Greece [+–] 127-138

Angela Maria Arbelaez Arbelaez,Edward Mulholland £17.50

Angels Relief Team

Ángela María Arbeláez Arbeláez has a Phd in Art History from Lomonosov University of Moscow. She is the founder of the Angels Relief Team (ART), a curator and an interfaith activist who has been volunteering in Kara Tepe and other Greek camps for displaced persons since September 2015.

Benedictine College , Kansas

Edward Mulholland is an Associate Professor in World Languages and Cultures at Benedictine College, Atchison, Kansas. He volunteered at Kara Tepe, Lesvos in July 2016.

Chapter 11

Abandoned Refugee Vehicles “In the Middle of Nowhere”: Reflections on the Global Refugee Crisis from the Northern Margins of Europe [+–] 139-155

Oula Ilari Seitsonen,Vesa-Pekka Herva,Mika Kunnari £17.50

Archaeology, University of Helsinki

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Researcher, Lapland’s Dark Heritage project, University of Helsinki, Finland

University of Oulu

Vesa-Pekka Herva is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Oulu, Finland. His research interests are varied and range from the dynamics of Neolithization to the historical archaeology of northern Europe and the uses of the past in the present.

University of Lapland, Finland

Mika Kunnari is an archaeologist and artist at the University of Lapland, Finland, and he works in the project “Lapland’s Dark Heritage”

Chapter 12

The Garden of Refugees [+–] 156-166

Rui Gomes Coelho £17.50

Durham University

Rui Gomes Coelho is an archaeologist interested in historical archaeology, archaeology of the contemporary, critical heritage and photography. His current interests are driven by a fascination with the sensorial constitution of alternative modernities, and for marginal communities who mobilize material culture against traditional, nationalist-oriented approaches to heritage. He has been collaborating with archaeological projects based in the U.S., Portugal, Brazil, Germany, Spain, and Croatia. Recent publications include the essay “The Garden of Refugees” in the volume The New Nomadic Age: Archaeologies of Forced and Undocumented Migration, edited by Yannis Hamilakis, 2018 and the article “An Archaeology of Decolonization: Imperial Intimacies in Contemporary Lisbon”, published by the Journal of Social Archaeology, 2019. Between 2017-2019, he was a Postdoctoral Associate in the Cultural Heritage and Preservation Studies program at the Department of Art History, Rutgers University. He is also a Junior Researcher at UNIARQ—Center for Archaeology, University of Lisbon. As a photographer, Dr. Coelho participated in several individual and collective shows in the U.S., U.K. and Portugal.

Chapter 13

Reframing the Lampedusa Cross: The British Museum’s Display of the Mediterranean Migrant Crisis [+–] 167-175

Morgan Lynn Breene £17.50

University of Southampton

Centre for Maritime Archaeology, MA student

Chapter 14

What Anchors the Tu Do? [+–] 176-183

Denis Byrne £17.50

Western Sydney University

Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Culture and Society

Chapter 15

“Heritage on Exile”: Reflecting on the Roles and Responsibilities of Heritage Organizations towards Those Affected by Forced Migration [+–] 184-191

John Schofield £17.50

University of York

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John Schofield is Head of the Archaeology Department, University of York, having previously spent 21 year with English Heritage. John has published extensively on archaeoloogies of recent conflict, cultural heritage and the archaeology of the contemporary past. He co-authored After Modernity with Rodney Harrison (OUP, 2010) and co-edited A Fearsome Heritage: Diverse Legacies of the Cold War with Wayne Cocroft (Left Coast Press, 2007). He is currently conducting research in Berlin and Malta.

Chapter 16

Digging up sounds, images and words together in Athens: Conversations with Kurosh Dadgar (Hossein Shabani) and Saeid Ghasemi on refugee experiences and self-representation through art and heritage management [+–] 192-208

Christina Thomopoulos,Kurosh Dadgar,Esra Dogan,Saeid Ghasemi,Sophia Thomopoulos £17.50

National Center of Scientific Research “Demokritos”

Christina Thomopoulos is currently working as an Associate Researcher at the Integrated Systems Laboratory of the National Center of Scientific Research “Demokritos”.

Chapter 17

Commentary: Belonging and Belongings: On Migrant and Nomadic Heritages in and for the Anthropocene [+–] 209-220

Rodney Harrison,Staffan Appelgren,Anna Bohlin FREE

University College London

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Rodney Harrison is Professor of Heritage Studies at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London and the founding editor of the Journal of Contemporary Archaeology. He is the (co-)author or (co-)editor of more than a dozen books and edited volumes and over 60 refereed journal articles and book chapters on a range of topics, with particular foci on the material pasts, presents and futures of archaeology, anthropology, heritage and museums. His books include After Modernity: Archaeological Approaches to the Contemporary Past (with co-authors, OUP, 2010), Heritage: Critical Approaches (Routledge, 2013), Collecting, Ordering, Governing: Anthropology, Museums and Liberal Government (with co-authors, Duke, 2017) and The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Contemporary World (with co-editors, OUP, 2013). He has previously held research and teaching positions at The Open University, The Australian National University, The University of Western Australia and in the Research Unit, Cultural Heritage Division, NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service in Sydney. He is currently Principal Investigator of the collaborative, interdisciplinary Heritage Futures research programme. From 2017 he will be AHRC Priority Area Leadership Fellow for Heritage.

University of Gothenburg

Staffan Appelgren is a Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Gothenburg.

University of Gothenburg

Anna Bohlin is a Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Gothenburg.

It can be suggested that today we live in a new nomadic age, an age of global movement and migration. For the majority of people on earth, however, especially from the global south, crossing national borders and moving from the global south to the global north is risky, perilous, often lethal. Many are forced or compelled to migrate due to war, persecution, or the structural violence of poverty and deprivation. The phenomenon of forced and undocumented migration is one of the defining features of our era. And while the topic is at the centre of attention and study in many scholarly fields, the materiality of the phenomenon and its sensorial and mnemonic dimensions are barely understood and analysed. In this regard, contemporary archaeology can make an immense contribution. This book, the first archaeological anthology on the topic, takes up the challenge and explores the diverse intellectual, methodological, ethical, and political frameworks for an archaeology of forced and undocumented migration in the present. Matters of historical depth, theory, method, ethics and politics as well as heritage value and public representation are investigated and analysed, adopting a variety of perspectives. The book contains both short reflections and more substantive treatments and case studies from around the world, from the Mexico-USA border to Australia, and utilizes a diversity of narrative formats, including several photographic essays. Chapter 17 is freely available under Creative Commons License BY 4.0

Chapter 18

Commentary: Nomadic Ethics 221-230

Elisabeth Kirtsoglou £17.50

Durham Univesity

Elisabeth Kirtsoglou is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Durham University.

Chapter 19

Commentary: Whither the History of Forced and Undocumented Migration? Notes for Genealogical and Comparative Approaches [+–] 231-238

Parker VanValkenburgh £17.50

Brown University

Parker VanValkenburgh is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Brown University.

End Matter

Index [+–] 239-253

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It can be suggested that today we live in a new nomadic age, an age of global movement and migration. For the majority of people on earth, however, especially from the global south, crossing national borders and moving from the global south to the global north is risky, perilous, often lethal. Many are forced or compelled to migrate due to war, persecution, or the structural violence of poverty and deprivation. The phenomenon of forced and undocumented migration is one of the defining features of our era. And while the topic is at the centre of attention and study in many scholarly fields, the materiality of the phenomenon and its sensorial and mnemonic dimensions are barely understood and analysed. In this regard, contemporary archaeology can make an immense contribution. This book, the first archaeological anthology on the topic, takes up the challenge and explores the diverse intellectual, methodological, ethical, and political frameworks for an archaeology of forced and undocumented migration in the present. Matters of historical depth, theory, method, ethics and politics as well as heritage value and public representation are investigated and analysed, adopting a variety of perspectives. The book contains both short reflections and more substantive treatments and case studies from around the world, from the Mexico-USA border to Australia, and utilizes a diversity of narrative formats, including several photographic essays. Chapter 17 is freely available under Creative Commons License BY 4.0 here

Reviews

Moving is a keyword for this timely collection of papers: The authors focus on people and their things moving through landscapes and material culture as symbols of movement and barriers. Some of the papers also emphasize a need to move the discourse of forced migration. Furthermore, the papers in this book contribute to move the scope of archaeology by documenting how archaeological methodology is highly favourable to the study of ongoing processes in addition to past phenomena. Lastly, these papers are also moving in a different sense; it is emotional to read about migrant deaths, a child drawing floating bodies, orange lifejackets spread along the shore, and people searching for a permanent situation. The New Nomadic Age provides detailed and diverse perspectives on moving in all these senses of the word and is a highly recommended read.
Archäologische Informationen

An incredible transdisciplinary and transcultural study of the global phenomenon of migration, the collected texts cover a wide range of political, cultural, and geographical sites and subjects, bringing together essays, documents, and photographs from such places as Mexico, the US, Finland, Palestine, Syria, India and Pakistan, and Australia. The contributors tackle complex topics such as “surveilling surveillance,” the drawings and gardens of refugees, the relationship between belonging and belongings, and more. The book also interrogates our complicity in how the migrant is often perceived as either a threat or a figure lacking agency, transforming these toxic misconceptions by foregrounding the migrant-refugee experience—and the inclusion is devastating. Timely, and an interdisciplinary prototype, this text should be necessary reading for curators, editors, and educators.
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