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Cataloguing the Material Culture of Police Violence in Portland, Oregon (2024)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology, Activism, and Protest", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In this paper I will discuss the artifacts, digital data, and community relationships accumulated over three years of documenting police violence against protestors in my local community. Over the course of this project I have become expert at identifying chemical weapons parts, have learned to safely store explosive objects outside of...