Incluye bibliografías e índice.

Introduction. An archaeology of ruins / Þóra Pétursdóttir and Bjornar Olsen -- Things, ethics and heritage. Trusted vagueness: the language of things and the order of incompleteness / Dag T. Andersson -- Ethics and flesh: being touched by the otherness of things / Luca D. Introna -- The ontology of absence: uniting materialist and ecological interpretations at an abandoned open-pit copper mine / Timothy J. LeCain -- Palliative curation: art and entropy on Orford Ness / Caitlin DeSilvey -- Industrial heritage and the ideal of presence / Torgeir R. Bangstad -- Material memory. My father?s things / Hein B. Bjerck -- In ruins old and new: cultivating threat on a former hacienda, YucatÁn / Jason Ramsey -- Treasured memories: an anecdotal mapping of wartime caches in Estonia / Mats Burström -- Sværholt: recovered memories from a POW camp in the far north / Bjønar Olsen and Christopher Witmore -- Ruins, art, attraction. The affordances and potentialities of derelict urban spaces / Joanne Hudson -- Which ruins do we valorize? a visual calibration curve for the Balkan past / Douglass Bailey -- Children in ruins: bombsites as playgrounds in Second World War Britain / Gabriel Moshenska -- Silent power #1: Trondheim Harbour, Norway 2012 / Elin Andreassen -- Invented revelation / Aoalsteinn Ásberg Sigurosson and Nökkvi Elíasson -- Abandonment. No man's land: the ontology of a space left over / Dag T. Andersson -- Conduits of dispersal: dematerializing an early twentieth-century village in Iceland / Gavin Lucas -- Manifestations of conflict in a post-ceasefire state: material, memory and meaning in contemporary Northern Ireland / Laura McAtackney -- Things out-of-hand: the aesthetics of abandonment / Þóra Pétursdóttir -- Archaeologies of the recent past. Returning to where we have never been: excavating the ruins of modernity / Alfredo GonzÁlez-Ruibal -- Borders in ruin / Anna McWilliams -- Ruins of the weather war: studying the material remains of Allied and Wehrmacht activities in Northeast Greenland / Jens F. Jensen and Tilo Krause -- Materialising Skatas archaeology of a Second World War refugee camp in Sweden / Maria Persson -- Object-oriented metrologies of care and the proximate ruin of building 500 / Timothy Webmoor.

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