The second edition of An Archaeology of the Contemporary Era explores the period between the late nineteenth and twenty-first centuries and reflects on the archaeological theory and practice of the recent past.
The second edition of An Archaeology of the Contemporary Era explores the period between the late nineteenth and twenty-first centuries and reflects on the archaeological theory and practice of the recent past.
Alfredo González-Ruibal is a researcher with the Institute of Heritage Sciences of the Spanish National Research Council. His research focuses on the archaeology of the contemporary past, and particularly on the dark side of modernity: war, dictatorship, predatory capitalism, and colonialism. He has conducted fieldwork in Spain, Brazil, Ethiopia, Equatorial Guinea, and the Horn of Africa.
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Introduction CHAPTER 1. An archaeology of the contemporary era CHAPTER 2. Ruins CHAPTER 3. Politics CHAPTER 4. Ethics CHAPTER 5. Aesthetics CHAPTER 6. Timey CHAPTER 7. Space CHAPTER 8. Materiality CHAPTER 9. Concluding remarks: Beyond the Anthropocene
