"You No Longer Leave Your Heart in San Francisco. The City Breaks It": Reconciling the Realities of Urban Displacement and Slow Archaeology.

Author(s): Meredith Reifschneider

Year: 2020

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Slow Archaeology + Fast Capitalism: Hard Lessons and Future Strategies from Urban Archaeology" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

“Slow archaeology” includes a diverse array of theoretical and methodological concerns that orient scholars towards inclusive and engaged practices that foster longstanding relationships with stakeholder communities to develop meaningful research. This paper explores the suitability of “slow approaches” in San Francisco, CA, a city characterized by unprecedented living costs, population displacement, and a general loss of belonging and sense of place. I address the following concerns: How do we engage student groups and stakeholder communities who are fractured by geographic displacement and radical income inequality? How are we to reconcile the tenets of slow archaeology and the realities of community dislocation? Is archaeology an appropriate means for addressing the politics of displacement in rapidly redeveloping cities? I explore these issues in the context of my collaborative project at the Presidio of San Francisco to highlight the complexities and opportunities of slow approaches for building sustainable relationships and charting future paths.

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"You No Longer Leave Your Heart in San Francisco. The City Breaks It": Reconciling the Realities of Urban Displacement and Slow Archaeology.. Meredith Reifschneider. 2020 ( tDAR id: 457520)

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Temporal Keywords
1900s

Spatial Coverage

min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;

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Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology

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PaperId(s): 565