Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/20518196.2023.2226949
T. Kador
At the Journal of Community Archaeology and Heritage we seek to take a global perspective while providing space for communities and individuals to present local (and sometimes hyper local) projects. Thus, in our editorials we frequently discuss the impact of global events – such as the environmental crisis, the Black Lives Matter movement, the war in Ukraine and other conflicts – on local communities and their heritage. While the war in Eastern Europe rages on and the situation in the middle East, including Israel/Palestine and the more recent outbreak of civil war in Sudan are leaving deep scars on the communities in these places, heritage is frequently raised as both being at risk as well as a political tool for all sides involved. This underscores the importance of providing the space to hear the perspectives from local communities. Since the last issue of JCAH appeared there has been a devastating earthquake affecting southern Türkiye (Turkey) and northern Syria (see below), while currently the skies throughout eastern parts of North America are clouded in smoke from hundreds of forest fires raging across eastern Canada. Although the plate tectonics that lead to earthquakes cannot be linked to human causes, the unequal nature by which their devastation affects communities is something that has clear human origins. The current forest fires in North America, on the other hand, can be almost entirely seen as a human-made catastrophe, linked to the climatic changes we are experiencing within the Anthropocene. They follow on from the enormous heatwave large parts of Canada witnessed last summer, as well as similar heatwaves, droughts but also flooding events many parts of the world – from Australia to Italy, Pakistan and Nigeria – have seen in the past 12 months. In this context, the most recent report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change spells out that in order to avoid the most devastating consequences of continuing global warming, the global community needs to implement ‘immediate greenhouse gas emissions reductions in all sectors this decade’ and move towards net zero CO2 emissions as soon as possible (IPPC 2023). While there is an onus on everyone to act, those with the most resources (countries, individuals, institutions and companies) have the greatest responsibility to show leadership here. As we have been critical of their stance on the issue of fossil fuel industry sponsorship on these pages before, we wanted to offer credit where we thought credit was due and congratulate the British Museum on its decision to finally sever ties with BP, as was reported in the Guardian on 2 June (Addley 2023). However, it seems these reports were premature and Kendall Adams (2023) reported in the Museum Journal four days later that no firm decision has been taken by either the British Museum or BP on the matter. This could be taken as a more general metaphor for the huge grip the coffers of big fossil fuel corporations continue to have
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Pub Date : 2023-03-26DOI: 10.1080/20518196.2023.2179765
Justice Mensah
ABSTRACT While the literature connects the development of World Heritage Sites (WHS) and their host communities, issues of mutual developmental relevance to the sites and the communities are hardly explored for collaborative development actions. This study explored issues of common developmental relevance to selected WHS in coastal Ghana and their host communities. Data were collected from local-level stakeholders – heritage site managers, community residents, and municipal authorities. Common issues of developmental relevance that needed to be addressed related to poor sanitation, harassment of tourists, demarcation of the heritage-protected areas, and beach sand mining. Since the development of WHS and their host communities is linked, the stakeholders are urged to collaboratively develop and implement management plans that take into account the development imperatives of the two entities. Such action-oriented, mutually beneficial plans need to be informed by research and driven by a stakeholder-participatory framework to ensure inclusion and ownership for sustainable development.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-04DOI: 10.1080/20518196.2023.2176087
A. Greaves, Aslı Öz, Gülşen Yegen, V. Apaydın, Caroline Gilby
ABSTRACT Heritage education is part of the global response to destruction of archaeological sites in Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries and will be important in achieving the secondary integration priorities of the Turkish state and NGOs working with Syrian migrants in Turkey. However, the effectiveness and pedagogy of heritage education interventions in diverse MENA communities is under-researched. We present here quantitative and qualitative evaluation data from a pilot project involving 169 teachers and c.2,800 children in Fethiye, SW Turkey. Educational games based on the pedagogic principle of Active Learning were well-received and raised participants' awareness of heritage but teacher confidence in delivering them remained low, even after training. Active Learning effectively engages both local and migrant groups with the shared space that they inhabit, even where its heritage has contested meanings, and heritage education and may have long-term social benefits for communities experiencing disruption and migration caused by conflict.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/20518196.2023.2168336
Sarah De Nardi, Thomas Kador
Welcome to Issue 10.01. We are back again and we are in double digits, meaning that JCAH is now in its tenth year of spearheading community-based approaches to heritage and archaeology from around the globe. In keeping with this, the current issue, the first of 2023, wishes to celebrate a new year in scholarship, in innovative community practice, and in community resilience across the board. As our world, professional and personal spheres, shape themselves to a new articulation of human interaction and as travel opens up again, we find ourselves wondering what lessons have been learned in the process. We are confident that as we adapt (or resist?) to what some have – somewhat reductively – named ‘a new normal’, we can make out the outlines of new possibilities, new and more insightful ways of doing things, as it were. We might even further define and buttress more flexible and possibly wider reaching means of generating and communicating the findings and teachings of community-centred projects. There are three major hurdles to our optimism, however: the continuing Russian invasion of Ukraine, the pervasive and lingering presence of COVID-19 on a global scale and the ever-deepening environmental crisis engulfing our planet. First, we do not yet live in a post-pandemic world and the strain of the pandemic is also evident in some of the research presented over the pages of this issue of JCAH. We also recognize the privilege of living and working in countries where accessibility to vaccines, the lack of conflict and the presence of stable democratic governments are supporting the return to a more hopeful and safer social world. However, we are acutely aware that not all our readers and colleagues enjoy most or any of the aforementioned privileges. Secondly, we extend our full solidarity to Ukrainian colleagues and the people of that country – as well as the many Russian colleagues and citizens, who do not support the Russian government’s act of imperial aggression. At the start of a new year and virtually one year after the invasion officially began, we hope that 2023 brings a resolution to the conflict or – more realistically – relief to the people of Ukraine and the region more generally. Thirdly, like with the COVID pandemic, we are conscious that those of us living and working in the global north and west – wile part of the heaviest polluters of the planet – do not yet feel the full brunt of the environmental changes that are already impacting millions of lives – especially in the global south – on a daily basis. So as temperature records keep getting broken and extreme weather event become the ‘new normal’ we also hope that 2023 sees a watershed in how the global community deals (justly) with the causes of this situation. Among these hurdles, we believe that bottom-up community perspectives can offer solutions and shine a light on how we can live better together in a more sustainable, peaceful and healthy world. In this issue of JCAH we find exc
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/20518196.2022.2157566
Ingrida Kelpšienė, C. Dallas
ABSTRACT The emergence of online social networks such as Facebook provide new opportunities for communication between archaeologists, and between archaeologists and communities. In this study, we used qualitative text analysis and conceptual metaphor analysis of conversations with eleven European archaeological Facebook site administrators to understand their motivations and ideas. We found that altruistic motivations coexist with emotional, career, and social capital expectations, that pseudo-archaeology and political weaponization of archaeology are major concerns, and that participants' conception of themselves and the archaeological Facebook sites they manage are based on multiple conceptual metaphors, revealing different, deliberative vs. agonistic, conceptions of social media community interaction, while top-down metaphors are contested by participatory, bottom-up metaphors, pointing to important dilemmas for the poetics and politics of contemporary public archaeology.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/20518196.2022.2136449
V. C. Westmont, F. Benetti
This special issue aims to capture a broad cross-section of the approaches employed and the challenges currently faced by archaeologists who work with communities in Europe. Through this collec-tion of papers, we aim to emphasize the diversity of experiences across the continent, inspire new ideas for future engagement, and examine how community-based work can inform the discipline in unanticipated ways. When we
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/20518196.2022.2130594
Michael Nevell
ABSTRACT Dig Greater Manchester (DGM) was a large archaeological community engagement project operating within Britain during the years 2011 to 2016. Its scope and scale were designed to assess the impact of enabling local communities and individuals to acquire and enhance heritage skills and awareness of heritage-based practices, whilst also contributing to the exploration of the city region's experience of industrialisation. This paper looks at the ways in which the Dig Greater Manchester community archaeology project set about recording the impact of the project, especially individuals with learning disabilities. The community impact data was captured through specifically designed feedback questionnaires, one-to-one interviews with adult volunteers, one-to-one interviews with disability volunteers, and the input of psychology researchers from the University of Salford. The results provide data on how archaeology engagement activities can help to build communities and break down barriers, but also highlight areas where the project could have been improved.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-21DOI: 10.1080/20518196.2022.2097775
Lina Bose
ABSTRACT Heritage always calls for inclusion, but when it comes to development, the inclusionary aspect of heritage is frequently undermined. In the contemporary era, the holistic heritage approach has frequently degraded into layers of ignorance and low-priority subjects. The neoliberal developmental paradigm alienated the community from their aesthetic and cultural values and forced them to move forward into a new era of development. This write-up encourages the community to participate in restoring the heritage elements in the city of Chandannagar by spreading the message ‘conserve and feel proud.’. The field report looks for ways to integrate utilitarian developmental perspectives with non-utilitarian cultural values and praxis in Chandannagar.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/20518196.2022.2093009
Thomas Kador, Sarah De Nardi
In our last editorial, we wrote of our dismay about the return of armed conflict to the streets of Europe and the relevance of archaeology and heritage in relation to such pressing concerns of life and death. This sense of dismay has not abated now that over 100 days later the conflict rages on and shows no sign of ending anytime soon. A perhaps unforeseen – thought by no means unforeseeable – consequence of the war has been the ripple effect it has had on energy prices. In our highly globalized economic system, we are all highly dependent on a relatively small number of states (and corporations), controlling most of the world’s energy resources; namely gas and oil. This has led to the sharp increase in the cost of everyday items such as food and clothing – let alone petrol, gas and electricity themselves – which the western media has termed the cost-of-living crisis. The fact that it was largely sparked by the reduced availability of resources that most countries had already committed to reducing, brings with it a distinct sense of irony. But the relationships between the conflict, energy prices and our daily living costs, highlights the fragility of the entanglements of all our lives with petrochemicals. ‘Carbon based economies’, as Esther Breithoff recently put it, ‘have come to infiltrate our lives and bodies and everything around us’ (Breithoff 2022, 92). She goes on to quote Marina Zurkow, ‘we are soaking in petroleum and wouldn’t know how to live, feed, shelter, clothe or express ourselves without oil-based products’ (Plueker 2021). At this stage, readers might wonder how any of this relates to archaeology or heritage. On one hand, we could argue that carbonbased economies have created ‘a deeply entangled, unruly and inescapable heritage’ in themselves (Breithoff 2022, 92). And on the other, they could also be seen as the tip of the iceberg of the extractivist nature of western civilization for the past 500 years, since the onset of Europe’s colonial project. The processes of archaeology (and heritage more generally) are equally caught up in this web of relationships with colonialism and extractivism. In fact, our profession often literally takes things out of the ground and removes them from where they belong in the name of learning, guardianship and progress. The ultimate pinnacle of this is the continued acceptance of financial support from big oil corporations by some of the world’s ‘leading’ cultural institutions, such as the British Museum and the Smithsonian institution. Incidentally, these were also some of the main recipients of the material (including human) remains from colonized parts of the world. On the flipside, there is a groundswell of initiatives that demonstrate more publicly engaged and community-based approaches to heritage, such as many of the studies published in the pages of JCAH. They frequently present the perspectives from communities living the consequences of western extractivist approaches and are directly tac
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Pub Date : 2022-04-26DOI: 10.1080/20518196.2022.2060677
Erin Gibson
ABSTRACT The phenomenon of rural depopulation is seen in many places around the world as young adults move to urban areas where there is greater access to employment, government services and social activities. In Cyprus rural villages exemplify this pattern of demographic decline. Depopulation creates a cycle of loss that influences community identity and feelings of belonging. In this paper I argue that heritage may play a role in building community resilience in socially and economically marginalised rural areas. I focus on the heritage work of a Cypriot regional primary school – how its teachers and pupils created a new common sense of identity for the school, its pupils and the rural villages that the school serves. This case illustrates how even small heritage initiatives may enliven, strengthen and create new social networks – resources necessary to maintain a sense of place, build and sustain community resilience in rural areas.
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