Archaeologies of Collapse: New Conceptions of Ruination in Northern Britain

Angela McClanahan

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Abstract

In northern regions of the UK, ‘ruins’ tend to be valued and understood according to romantic tropes and/or industrial aesthetics. In southern regions, however, they have increasingly been examined using expanded understandings of materiality and temporality, including the use of speculative approaches from across the arts and humanities to explore how they are visually and materially entangled in contemporary global human and non-human relations. Using anthropological approaches and analogies from film and ‘contemporary archaeology’, this article considers two ‘ruins’ sites in Scotland in relation to current discourses and conditions, including futurity, value, ethics and neoliberalism.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)198-213
Number of pages16
JournalVisual Culture in Britain
Volume15
Issue number2
Early online date11 Jul 2014
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 17 Jul 2014

Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

  • Anticipation
  • Temporality
  • Housing
  • Collapse
  • Materiality
  • Value
  • Futures
  • Ruination

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  • Further North

    Angela McClanahan-Simmons (Organiser)

    4 Sept 20145 Sept 2014

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  • Local Shadow, Global Mist: Laura Yuile

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    8 Jun 2014

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