Unruly Heritage

Name: Unruly Heritage
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Unruly HeritageArchaeologies of the Anthropocene\nAuthor(s): Bjrnar Julius Olsen, Stein Farstadvoll, Genevive Godin\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Bloomsbury Academic\nISBN-13: 9781350426368, 978-1350426368\nSynopsis\nHeritage is almost univocally conceived of as valuable and good, something we care for and preserve for ourselves and future generations. Although traditionally associated with the unique and monumental, heritage has over the last decades been broadened in response to claims to incorporate more diverse and globally representative legacies. While such claims are of course welcome, they do not embrace the bulging unruly and obnoxious legacies that now haunt us; legacies that have become so conspicuously manifest that they are claimed as diagnostic of a new epoch, the Anthropocene.\n\nThis book targets this exclusion. It claims that the current clash between prevailing conceptions of heritage as something confined, wished .