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

academia.edu)

 

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.