Advocacy in Archaeology: Thoughts from the Urban Frontier
Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2020
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Advocacy in Archaeology: Thoughts from the Urban Frontier," at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
Archaeologists have a history of being prime agents of change, particularly in advocating for protection and preservation of heritage resources, which have led to many historic preservation laws and ordinances and the development of CRM in the mid-20th century. During this time, urban archaeological groups and individual archaeologists were required to be diligent advocates for heritage as the fast-paced nature of urbanization threatened historical resources and a sense of place. Today as more social issues intersect with archaeology, such as climate change, neoliberal development and loss of historical memory, we see archaeologists continuing to advocate for not only historic resources but for larger social justice issues that threaten the communities these resources reside. This session will explore the theme Revolution from an activist standpoint, drawing on urban professional archaeologists, organizations and their members and the advocacy efforts in a variety of social justice and historic preservation projects they work in.
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heritage •
Historical Memory
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17th century to the present
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"America in Tears." The Revolutionary Foundations of National Identity Narratives. (2020)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Advocacy in Archaeology: Thoughts from the Urban Frontier" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. What can we learn from urban archaeology about the early formation of American identity that can help us address the many current challenges to social justice? Historical narratives are constantly rewritten to serve various interests of power. Archaeology can help us to see the constructedness of those narratives and...
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"Cursed Be He that Moves My Bones:"The Archaeologist’s Role in Protecting Burial Sites in Urban Areas (2020)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Advocacy in Archaeology: Thoughts from the Urban Frontier" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The pace of development in the northeastern US has resulted in the obliteration of cemetery sites for centuries. As populations swelled and cities expanded, formerly sacred burial locations have become valuable land ripe for development. As a result of loopholes in environmental review laws, gaps in social memory/the...
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PANYC: The Why, The Then, And The Now (2020)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Advocacy in Archaeology: Thoughts from the Urban Frontier" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Forty years ago, seventeen New York City archaeologists met on a cold Saturday afternoon in an unheated New York University classroom to form a new organization. The organizers were three local archaeology professors and the participants included their graduate students (I among them) and archaeological professionals....
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A People's Preservation Revisited (2020)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Advocacy in Archaeology: Thoughts from the Urban Frontier" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper follows up my presentation at the 2019 SHA conference where I proposed but did not define the concept of A People's Preservation. This paper picks up this unfinished work. Through illustrations of research and advocacy related to the archaeology and history of urban and suburban Essex County, NJ, I examine...
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Right to the City: Community-Based Urban Archaeology as Abolitionist Geography (2020)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Advocacy in Archaeology: Thoughts from the Urban Frontier" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper sees heritage as a community resource to challenge racist urban planning policies in a historically African American neighborhood of Brooklyn. It examines this case through Ruth Wilson Gilmore's concept of abolitionist geography, which views urban space as an extension of enslavement and confinement. Urban...
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Seneca Village Digital: Bringing Collaborative Historical Archaeology and Heritage Advocacy Online (2020)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Advocacy in Archaeology: Thoughts from the Urban Frontier" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Advocacy and collaboration with stakeholders have been important components of the Seneca Village project (now the Institute for the Exploration of Seneca Village History or IESVH) since Diana Wall, Nan Rothschild, and Cynthia Copeland founded it in the 1990s. The project has involved people of diverse backgrounds and...
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Student Voice: A Revolution Worth Listening To (2020)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Advocacy in Archaeology: Thoughts from the Urban Frontier" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. “Revolution” appears less than 10 times in the most recent NY State Regents test on US History, a requirement for high school graduation. Teaching the American Revolution has been supplanted with different revolutions, including labor reform and civil rights. The revolution is not dead, but it is different. Public...