Archaeology of the contemporary past (Other Keyword)
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"We are not ready for musealization – the conflict is not over yet" - A multisource and community approach to a 20th century protest camp site in Germany (2018)
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This paper presents my PhD project which investigates the contested site of Gorleben, the iconic camp with 2000 inhabitants protesting against a nuclear waste facility, which was forcibly dismantled by the police in May 1980. Today it is a reference point for the German green movement and the sustainable energy discussion. In a multi-source approach, written accounts, photographs, excavation data and oral history are interpreted in a comparative perspective to reconstruct what happened (everyday...