How to Record Current Events like an Archaeologist
Global crises drastically alter human behavior, rapidly impacting patterns of movement and consumption. A rapid-response analysis of material culture brings new perspective to disasters as they unfold. We present a case study of the coronavirus pandemic in Tromsø, Norway, based on fieldwork from Mar...
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ftunivtroemsoe:oai:munin.uit.no:10037/23197 2023-05-15T18:34:37+02:00 How to Record Current Events like an Archaeologist Magnani, Matthew Walker Venovcevs, Anatolijs Farstadvoll, Stein Magnani, Natalia 2021-10-19 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/23197 https://doi.org/10.1177/14696053211043430 eng eng SAGE Publications Advances in Archaeological Practice Magnani, Venovcevs, Farstadvoll, Magnani. How to Record Current Events like an Archaeologist. Advances in Archaeological Practice. 2021 FRIDAID 1947225 doi:10.1177/14696053211043430 2326-3768 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/23197 openAccess Copyright 2021 The Author(s) VDP::Social science: 200 VDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200 Journal article Tidsskriftartikkel Peer reviewed publishedVersion 2021 ftunivtroemsoe https://doi.org/10.1177/14696053211043430 2021-12-01T23:54:51Z Global crises drastically alter human behavior, rapidly impacting patterns of movement and consumption. A rapid-response analysis of material culture brings new perspective to disasters as they unfold. We present a case study of the coronavirus pandemic in Tromsø, Norway, based on fieldwork from March 2020 to April 2021. Using a methodology rooted in social distancing and through systematic, diachronic, and spatial analysis of trash (e.g., discarded gloves, sanitization products), signage, and barriers, we show how material perspectives improve understanding of relationships between public action and government policy (in this case examined in relation to the Norwegian concept of collective labor, dugnad). We demonstrate that the materiality of individual, small-scale innovations and behaviors that typified the pandemic will have the lowest long-term visibility, as they are increasingly replaced or outnumbered by more durable representations generated by centralized state and corporate bodies that suggest close affinity between state directive and local action. We reflect on how the differential durability of material responses to COVID-19 will shape future memories of the crisis. Article in Journal/Newspaper Tromsø University of Tromsø: Munin Open Research Archive Norway Tromsø Journal of Social Archaeology 146960532110434 |
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Global crises drastically alter human behavior, rapidly impacting patterns of movement and consumption. A rapid-response analysis of material culture brings new perspective to disasters as they unfold. We present a case study of the coronavirus pandemic in Tromsø, Norway, based on fieldwork from March 2020 to April 2021. Using a methodology rooted in social distancing and through systematic, diachronic, and spatial analysis of trash (e.g., discarded gloves, sanitization products), signage, and barriers, we show how material perspectives improve understanding of relationships between public action and government policy (in this case examined in relation to the Norwegian concept of collective labor, dugnad). We demonstrate that the materiality of individual, small-scale innovations and behaviors that typified the pandemic will have the lowest long-term visibility, as they are increasingly replaced or outnumbered by more durable representations generated by centralized state and corporate bodies that suggest close affinity between state directive and local action. We reflect on how the differential durability of material responses to COVID-19 will shape future memories of the crisis. |
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