After Discourse

Bjørnar J. Olsen is Professor of Archaeology at the UiT – The Arctic University of Norway. His research focuses on Sámi archaeology, contemporary archaeology, memory, heritage and thing theory. Recent projects include three Norwegian Research Council-funded projects and he is currently the director of the Unruly Heritage project, which examines how the past effectively enacts itself through the undesirable legacies being passed on.Mats Burström is Professor of Archaeology at Stockholm University, Sweden. His research is focused on contemporary archaeology and the interplay between material remains and memory. Publications within this field include studies of a Third Reich arena in Germany, a refugee camp in Sweden, family belongings hidden in the ground in Estonia and a Soviet nuclear missile site in Cuba.Caitlin DeSilvey is Professor of Cultural Geography at the University of Exeter, where she is Associate Director for Transdiciplinary Research at the Environment and Sustainability Institute. Her research explores the cultural significance of material change, with a particular focus on heritage contexts. She has published a number of edited books and journal articles; her monograph Curated Decay: Heritage Beyond Saving was published in 2017.Þóra Pétursdóttir is Associate Professor of Archaeology in the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History at the University of Oslo in Norway. Her research is predominantly focused on archaeology of the recent past, archaeological theory and practice and critical heritage studies, with field projects in Iceland, Norway and Russia.

• 1 After Discourse: An Introduction; PART I Things: Writing, Nearing, Knowing; 2 Writing Things After Discourse; 3 Wild Things; 4 In the Presence of Things; 5 Thick Speech and Deep Time in the Anthropocene ; 6 On the Face of Things; PART II Affects: Sensing thingss; 7 The View from Somewhere: Liquid, Geologic, and Queer Bodies; 8 Stranded Stones and Settled Species: Affect and Effects of Ballast; 9 Out of the Day, Time and Life: Phenomenology and Cavescapes; 10 Ruins of Ruins: The Aura of Archaeological Remains; 11 What Remains? On Material Nostalgia; PART III Ethics: Caring for Things; 12 Touching Tactfully: The Impossible Community; 13 Foundered: Other Objects and the Ethics of Indifference; 14 Releasing the Visual Archive: On the Ethics of Destruction; 15 Through the Jackpile-Paguate Uranium Mine; 16 Towards a Post-Anthropocentric Ethic