Dear colleagues, we are glad to announce the Call for Papers of our next two sponsored sessions:
1. 20th EAA Meeting. Istanbul (Turkey), 10-14 September 2014.
On the ethical side of public archaeology (round table)
Nowadays, public archaeology, or more strictly community archaeology, has become a trend among archaeology professionals. The concept that working with communities is important brings with it another assumption: doing so is simple. However, community archaeology brings with it a series of ethical and practical difficulties. These issues are just the tip of the iceberg of wider challenges for public archaeology: Understanding the communities we deal with, how we undertake co-created projects with non-professionals, why we, as professionals would want to, and need to do this, and the consequences of this work, are questions that urgently need further scrutiny. We must also consider the kinds of projects we should be involved in, the consequences of these projects, the scope of our impact and how can we support communities, whilst maintaining our professionalism. Following the debate in Pilsen 2012, this session seeks to delve into the multiple ethical implications of the practice of public archaeology and the possible solutions we can find to the issues raised above in these two blocks: -Ethics in the community: How do we work with(in) local communities. -The ethics of a political practice: What are the consequences of our work within today’s Europe.
Organized by Lorna Richardson and Jaime Almansa-Sánchez
2. VII TAAS. San Felipe (Chile), 6-10 October 2014
1. 20th EAA Meeting. Istanbul (Turkey), 10-14 September 2014.
On the ethical side of public archaeology (round table)
Nowadays, public archaeology, or more strictly community archaeology, has become a trend among archaeology professionals. The concept that working with communities is important brings with it another assumption: doing so is simple. However, community archaeology brings with it a series of ethical and practical difficulties. These issues are just the tip of the iceberg of wider challenges for public archaeology: Understanding the communities we deal with, how we undertake co-created projects with non-professionals, why we, as professionals would want to, and need to do this, and the consequences of this work, are questions that urgently need further scrutiny. We must also consider the kinds of projects we should be involved in, the consequences of these projects, the scope of our impact and how can we support communities, whilst maintaining our professionalism. Following the debate in Pilsen 2012, this session seeks to delve into the multiple ethical implications of the practice of public archaeology and the possible solutions we can find to the issues raised above in these two blocks: -Ethics in the community: How do we work with(in) local communities. -The ethics of a political practice: What are the consequences of our work within today’s Europe.
Organized by Lorna Richardson and Jaime Almansa-Sánchez
2. VII TAAS. San Felipe (Chile), 6-10 October 2014
Más allá de las comunidades.
Perspectivas en la arqueología pública de América del Sur.
Es
común
otorgar
etiquetas
a
toda
corriente
o
práctica
que
desarrollamos
como profesionales. Así, a la arqueología se le ponen innumerables complementos que nos suelen indicar
de un modo más concreto
a qué arqueología nos referimos. En ocasiones, estas etiquetas limitan las definiciones y generan conflictos a la hora de
implantar nuevas tendencias.
La Arqueología Pública
no es ajena a este proceso y, desde que fuera definida
en Estados Unidos en los años 1970 (McGimsey
1972) y replanteada en el Reino Unido durante los últimos años,
se ha encontrado con multitud
de escollos dentro
de la profesión. ¿Es difusión? ¿Es Arqueología Social?
¿Es gestión? ¿Es Patrimonio? Como disciplina joven que es, acercarse a ella genera
muchas preguntas, pero,
si bien la definición que hiciera Tim Schadla-‐Hall (1999) es la comúnmente aceptada en el contexto Europeo, el contexto americano sigue manteniendo una definición más reducida, ligada a la educación patrimonial y al trabajo con
comunidades locales.
América del Sur cuenta con una base teórica y metodológica extraordinaria para el desarrollo de la Arqueología Pública. A partir de la Teoría Decolonial y de la Arqueología Social Latinoamericana, los fundamentos de la Arqueología Pública pueden desarrollarse en toda su extensión. A ello se suma el contexto actual,
donde los pueblos
Indígenas exigen su reconocimiento como custodios del patrimonio
prehispánico, lo que agrega complejidad y ofrece la posibilidad de enriquecer nuestras prácticas.
Por ello, y tratando de superar etiquetas,
esta
sesión
busca
acercarse
desde
una perspectiva amplia a un contexto
social en estrecha
relación con la Arqueología y a las posibilidades de la Arqueología para relacionarse de forma positiva
con ese contexto social.
Bajo un paraguas que abarca
la gestión (legislación, administración, modelo de práctica, etc.), la práctica
(ética, participación, comunidades, protocolos, etc.) y
el impacto (político, económico
y social), buscamos
contribuciones de carácter principalmente teórico
que ayuden a entender una práctica amplia de la Arqueología Pública en la perspectiva sudamericana.
Organized by Fernanda Kalazich and Jaime Almansa-Sánchez
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Please, do not hesitate to contact us if you are interested in participating. Deadlines are tight. As for the EAA, 27th January (link for submissions). And for TAAS, there is not a fixed date yet... but soon.
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