Graham Fairclough

The Cold War in context 19 2 The Cold War in context: Archaeological explorations of private, public and political complexity GRAHAM FAIRCLOUGH INTRODUCTION: A NEW CONTEXT FOR ARCHAEOLOGY Not behind us–past in the present Archaeology is a discipline that ...

Last year’s editorial described the ‘ethos of care’ we seek to develop at Landscape Research when it comes to the peer-reviewing process (Vicenzotti & Waterton, 2021). In many ways, that editorial was a response to the ‘toxic dynamics’ and ‘structural violence’ (Nolas & Varvantakis, 2019) we know exists, and too often thrives, in academia and which were being exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic. At that time, we were inspired by the scholarship of Maria Puig de la Bellacasa and particularly her 2012 article, ‘‘Nothing comes without its world’: Thinking with care’, which we used to present a vision for care-full reviewing, by which we meant asking reviewers to ‘take care’ of authors by engaging in constructive and intellectually generous forms of exchange (Vicenzotti & Waterton, 2021; see also, Liboiron, 2020). Continuing to think-with Puig de la Bellacasa and her assertion that ‘relations of thinking and knowing require care’ (2012, p. 198), this year’s editorial summarises our current effort to reframe our expectations when it comes to inclusive writing cultures and practices, work that we have been undertaking in collaboration with the Landscape Research Group’s Board of Trustees. Thus, in addition to outlining some recent changes at Landscape Research and announcing our best paper prizes for 2021, this editorial introduces three new initiatives springing from our continuing efforts to foster care-full academic publishing: our Guide for Inclusive Practices: Language & Writing; our new Book Review Forum format; and an additional role on the editorial team called an Academic Support Editor. Before providing more detail on these initiatives, however, we first want to reflect on our own positionalities and relationships to land as authors of this editorial and members of the small working group established to draft a guide on inclusive practices. This is something we have failed to do in the past, which makes little sense given the journal’s focus. It makes even less sense given the journal is currently ‘hosted’ by Western Sydney University in Australia, a settler colony that, as Lynette Russell (2019, p. 153) argues, has ‘struggled to accommodate, celebrate or reconcile the relationship between the nation’s “First people”. We also see this as an important act of acknowledging our ‘situated knowledges’ (Haraway, 1988). In other words, we are accounting for our social locations and contextual advantages as researchers or, as Haraway (1988, p. 583) puts it, allowing ourselves ‘to become answerable for what we learn how to see’. Emma (she/her) is a white settler woman living in Australia, where acknowledging land relations is extremely important. This is because Australia was founded on the violent dispossession of First Nations peoples. Sovereignty was never ceded. The ‘afterlives’ of colonisation continue in the form of colonial structures, assumptions and policies, and she recognises the long struggle of First Nations peoples to dismantle those structures and assert their rights and responsibilities to their Country (Sobo et al., 2021). Emma is an uninvited settler, arriving in Australia as a migrant on two occasions, once as a child in the 1990s (from Hong Kong) and again in 2010 (from the UK) as a newly appointed academic. She lives and works on unceded Darug and Gundungurra Country, a landscape that lies to

This major new resource is a much-needed support to the few textbooks in the field and offers an excellent introduction and overview to the established principals and new thinking in cultural heritage management. Leading experts in the field from Europe, North America ...

Last year’s editorial described the ‘ethos of care’ we seek to develop at Landscape Research when it comes to the peer-reviewing process (Vicenzotti & Waterton, 2021). In many ways, that editorial was a response to the ‘toxic dynamics’ and ‘structural violence’ (Nolas & Varvantakis, 2019) we know exists, and too often thrives, in academia and which were being exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic. At that time, we were inspired by the scholarship of Maria Puig de la Bellacasa and particularly her 2012 article, ‘‘Nothing comes without its world’: Thinking with care’, which we used to present a vision for care-full reviewing, by which we meant asking reviewers to ‘take care’ of authors by engaging in constructive and intellectually generous forms of exchange (Vicenzotti & Waterton, 2021; see also, Liboiron, 2020). Continuing to think-with Puig de la Bellacasa and her assertion that ‘relations of thinking and knowing require care’ (2012, p. 198), this year’s editorial summarises our current effort to reframe our expectations when it comes to inclusive writing cultures and practices, work that we have been undertaking in collaboration with the Landscape Research Group’s Board of Trustees. Thus, in addition to outlining some recent changes at Landscape Research and announcing our best paper prizes for 2021, this editorial introduces three new initiatives springing from our continuing efforts to foster care-full academic publishing: our Guide for Inclusive Practices: Language & Writing; our new Book Review Forum format; and an additional role on the editorial team called an Academic Support Editor. Before providing more detail on these initiatives, however, we first want to reflect on our own positionalities and relationships to land as authors of this editorial and members of the small working group established to draft a guide on inclusive practices. This is something we have failed to do in the past, which makes little sense given the journal’s focus. It makes even less sense given the journal is currently ‘hosted’ by Western Sydney University in Australia, a settler colony that, as Lynette Russell (2019, p. 153) argues, has ‘struggled to accommodate, celebrate or reconcile the relationship between the nation’s “First people”. We also see this as an important act of acknowledging our ‘situated knowledges’ (Haraway, 1988). In other words, we are accounting for our social locations and contextual advantages as researchers or, as Haraway (1988, p. 583) puts it, allowing ourselves ‘to become answerable for what we learn how to see’. Emma (she/her) is a white settler woman living in Australia, where acknowledging land relations is extremely important. This is because Australia was founded on the violent dispossession of First Nations peoples. Sovereignty was never ceded. The ‘afterlives’ of colonisation continue in the form of colonial structures, assumptions and policies, and she recognises the long struggle of First Nations peoples to dismantle those structures and assert their rights and responsibilities to their Country (Sobo et al., 2021). Emma is an uninvited settler, arriving in Australia as a migrant on two occasions, once as a child in the 1990s (from Hong Kong) and again in 2010 (from the UK) as a newly appointed academic. She lives and works on unceded Darug and Gundungurra Country, a landscape that lies to

CHAPTER 6 Common Culture: The Archaeology of Landscape Character in Europe Sam Turner and Graham Fairclough INTRODUCTION This chapter describes a relatively new way of doing landscape archaeology that focuses on the historic dimension of the present-day ...

This paper explores the centrality of heritage-based cultural activity to sustainable development, within the frame of the Faro Convention on the ‘Value of Cultural Heritage for Society’. It offers examples from France and the Balkans of successful ways to interweave heritage and culture into place-based and landscape-sensitive strategies for social sustainability

Living between past and futre: An introduction to heritage and cultural sustainability Part 1 Equity, Inclusion, Citizenship 1. Ordinary heritage, participation and social cohesion in suburban towns 2. 'Keeping it real': Social sustainability in the Homeless Heritage project in Bristol and York (UK) 3. The burden of history: Living heritage and everyday life in Rome 4. Remembering cities: The role of memory in the culturally sustainable development of Dubrovnik (Croatia) 5. The challenge of cultural sustainability in city museums: Showing the city and selecting past in Noyon (France) 6. Social sustainability in historic city centres: The Grand Place in Brussels Part 2 Construction, Recovery, Resilience 7. Language revitalisation, sonic activism and cultural sustainability: Voicing linguistic heritage on Jersey 8. Heritage resurrection: German heritage in the Southern Baltic cities 9. Sustainability through alteration: Eastern Baltic manors in the Estonian tradition 10. The potential space for cultural sustainability: Place narratives and place-heritage in Rjukan (Norway) 11. Politics, tourism and cultural sustainability: The construction of heritage in Cyprus 12. From dissonance to resilience: The heritage of Belgrade's staro sajmiste 13. Aftermath or futures: Concluding thoughts

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