Below are readings, loosely grouped, that have informed our formulation of slow archaeology. If you have suggestions, additions, tell us what you’re reading!
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New Materialism and/or the Anthropocene
Bennett, Jane
2010 Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things. Durham: Duke University Press.
DeLanda, Manuel
2006 A New Philosophy of Society: Assemblage Theory and Social Complexity. London:
Bloomsbury.
Haraway, Donna J.
2016 Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Durham: Duke University
Press.
Kirksey, Eben
2015 Emergent Ecologies. Durham: Duke University Press.
Kirskey, Eben, ed.
2014 The Multispecies Salon. Durham: Duke University Press.
Law, John and Marianne Elisabeth Lien
2012 Slippery: Field Notes in Empirical Ontology. Social Studies of Science 43(3):363-378.
Puig de la Bellacasa, María
2017 Matters of Care: Speculative Ethics in More than Human Worlds. Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press.
Ticktin, Miriam
2017 A World Without Innocence. American Ethnologist 44(4):577-590.
Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt
2015 The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins.
Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Tsing, Anna, Heather Swanson, Elaine Gan, and Nils Bubandt, eds.
2017 Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
From Our Plenary Panelists
Barad, Karen
2003 Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter. Signs: Journal
of Women in Culture and Society 28(3):801-831.
2007 Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and
Meaning. Durham: Duke University Press.
2012 On Touching–The Inhuman that therefore I am. differences 25(3):206-223.
2014 Diffracting Diffraction: Cutting Together-Apart. parallax 20(3):168-187.
Barad, Karen, Martha Kenney and Jenny Reardon (Science and Justice Research Center (Collaborations Group))
2013 Experiments in Collaboration: Interdisciplinary Graduate Education in Science and
Justice. PLoS Biology 11(7): e1001619. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001619
Kleinmann, Adam
2012 Intra-actions. Interview of Karen Barad. Special dOCUMENTA (13) Issue of Mousse
Magazine. Milan, Italy. Accessible at academia.edu
Cunningham, Jerimy J. and Scott MacEachern
2016 Ethnoarchaeology as Slow Science. World Archaeology 48(5):628-641.
Geller, Pamela
2015 Hybrid Lives, Violent Deaths: “Seminoles” in the Samuel G. Morton Cranial Collection.
In Disturbing Bodies: Perspectives on Forensic Anthropology. Zoë Crossland and
Rosemary A. Joyce, eds. Pp. 137-156. Santa Fe: School for Advanced Research Press.
2016 This is Not a Manifesto: Archaeology and Feminism. In Meta-Philosophical Reflection
on Feminist Philosophies of Science, edited by M.C. Amoretti and N. Vassallo, pp. 151-170.
New York: Springer Press.
2017 The Bioarchaeology of Social-Sexual Lives: Queering Common Sense about Sex,
Gender, and Sexuality. New York: Springer Press.
Rizvi, Uzma
2017 Decolonization as Care. In Slow Reader: A Resource for Design Thinking and Practice. Pp. 85-95. Carolyn Strauss and Ana Paula Pais, eds. Amsterdam: Valiz.
2018 Critical Heritage and Participatory Discourse in the UAE. Design and Culture.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17547075.2018.1431861 (accessible at
Other Slow Readings
Bessire, Lucas and David Bond
2014 Ontological anthropology and the deferral of critique. American Ethnologist 41(3):440-456
Caraher, William
2015 Slow Archaeology. North Dakota Quarterly 80(2):43-52.
2016 Slow Archaeology: Technology, Efficiency, and Archaeological Work. In Mobilizing
the Past for a Digital Future: The Potential of Digital Archaeology. Erin Walcek Averett,
Jody Michael Gordon, and Derek B. Counts, eds. Pp. 421-442. Grand Forks: The Digital
Press at The University of North Dakota. Accessible at https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:10419/
Nelson, Robin G.
2017 Reimaging Process in 2016: Deliberations on a Year of Integrative Slow Science in
Biological Anthropology. American Anthropologist 119(2):298-307.
Stengers, Isabelle
2011 “Another science is possible!” A plea for Slow Science. Faculté de Philosophie et
Lettres, ULB. 13 December, Inauguratial lecture Chair Willy Calewaert 2011-2012 (VUB).
2018 Another Science is Possible: A Manifesto for Slow Science. Cambridge: Polity Press.
Strauss, Carolyn F. and Ana Paula Pais, eds.
2017 Slow Reader: A Resource for Design Thinking and Practice. Amsterdam: Valiz.
TallBear, Kim
2011 Why Interspecies Thinking Needs Indigenous Standpoints. Theorizing the Contemporary, Cultural Anthropology website. https://culanth.org/fieldsights/260-why-interspecies-thinking-needs-indigenous-standpoints
Todd, Zoe
2016 An Indigenous Feminist’s Take On The Ontological Turn: ‘Ontology’ Is Just Another Word for Colonialism. Journal for Historical Sociology 29(1):4-22.