[spectre] Deterritorializing the Future: Heritage in, of and after the Anthropocene - new open access book from Open Humanities Press

[Gary Hall]

Dear all,

This month we're delighted to announce the latest - and last - in our 
Critical Climate Change series, aptly titled Deterritorializing the 
Future: Heritage in, of and after the Anthropocene, edited by Rodney 
Harrison and Colin Sterling.

Like all Open Humanities Press books, Deterritorializing the Future is 
freely available to download:

http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/deterritorializing-the-future/

Understanding how pasts resource presents is a fundamental first step 
towards building alternative futures in the Anthropocene. This 
collection brings together scholars from a range of disciplines to 
explore concepts of care, vulnerability, time, extinction, loss and 
inheritance across more-than-human worlds, connecting contemporary 
developments in the posthumanities with the field of critical heritage 
studies. Drawing on contributions from archaeology, anthropology, 
critical heritage studies, gender studies, geography, histories of 
science, media studies, philosophy, and science and technology studies, 
the book aims to place concepts of heritage at the centre of discussions 
of the Anthropocene and its associated climate and extinction crises – 
not as a nostalgic longing for how things were, but as a means of 
expanding collective imaginations and thinking critically and 
speculatively about the future and its alternatives.

Contributors: Christina Fredengren, Cecilia Åsberg, Anna Bohlin, Adrian 
Van Allen, Esther Breithoff, Rodney Harrison, Colin Sterling, Joanna 
Zylinska, Denis Byrne, J. Kelechi Ugwuanyi, Caitlin DeSilvey, Anatolijs 
Venovcevs, Anna Storm and Claire Colebrook.

‘Deterritorializing The Future is without doubt a major contribution to 
Critical Heritage Studies, and also has significant resonances beyond 
this emerging field. Anyone concerned with the art of living in 
ecologically precarious times, anyone who cares about the entanglement 
of the human and the nonhuman and their planetary legacies needs to read 
this book.’

Ben Dibley, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University

About the editors

Rodney Harrison is Professor of Heritage Studies at the UCL Institute of 
Archaeology, and Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Heritage 
Priority Area Leadership Fellow (2017-2020). He has experience working 
in, teaching and researching natural and cultural heritage conservation, 
management and preservation in the UK, Europe, Australia, North America 
and South America. He is the (co) author or (co) editor of 17 books and 
guest edited journal volumes and over 80 peer reviewed journal articles 
and book chapters and is the founding editor of the Journal of 
Contemporary Archaeology. Between 2015 and 2019 he was principal 
investigator on the AHRC funded Heritage Futures research programme 
www.heritage-futures.org. His research has been funded by AHRC, 
GCRF/UKRI, British Academy, Wenner-Gren Foundation, Australian Research 
Council, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander 
Studies and the European Commission.

Colin Sterling is an AHRC Early Career Leadership Fellow at the UCL 
Institute of Archaeology. His research investigates the ideas and 
practices of heritage from a range of theoretical and historical 
perspectives, with a core focus on critical-creative approaches to 
heritage making. He is currently writing a book with Rodney Harrison on 
more-than-human heritage in the Anthropocene, which aims to expand the 
framework of critical heritage studies to better address the urgent 
problems of a warming world. Colin was previously a Project Curator at 
the Royal Institute of British Architects and has worked as a heritage 
consultant internationally, specializing in curatorial planning, 
audience research and interpretation. His first monograph Heritage, 
Photography, and the Affective Past was published by Routledge in 2019. 
He has a long-standing interest in the relationship between art and 
heritage, and is currently working on a new project investigating the 
impact of experiential and immersive design across the heritage sector.

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Exit the Critical Climate Change series (pursued by a polar bear)
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/series/critical-climate-change/

Enter the CCC2, Critical Climate Chaos series - Irreversibility.
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/series/ccc2-irreversibility/

With our best wishes,
Sigi Jöttkandt, David Ottina, Gary Hall (for OHP Press)

-- 
Gary Hall
Professor of Media
Director of the Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Faculty of Arts & Humanities, Coventry University:
http://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/areas-of-research/postdigital-cultures

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