Ambiguous Matter

IF 0.6 0 ARCHAEOLOGY

Journal of Contemporary Archaeology Pub Date : 2022-09-20 DOI:10.1558/jca.21645

Anatolijs Venovcevs

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Abstract

This paper explores mine waste that originates from resource extraction by specifically focusing on waste rock, tailings, dust and material culture from the resource extraction industry. By drawing on examples from fieldwork, archives, local media commentary and limited interviews from two iron-mining regions in Arctic Norway and sub-Arctic Canada, this paper follows mine waste as it routinely transgresses attempts to be managed. Mine waste spills out of its prescribed sinks, it oscillates between being considered waste to heritage to potentially valuable commodity, and it blurs the boundaries between spaces dedicated for mining and for non-mining. In following these trends, the paper calls for attentiveness to the ambiguous materiality of mine waste and how heterogeneity and excess circumscribe attempts at easy characterisation and management of the ubiquitous wastes that come to dominate mining regions. As such, archaeological approaches to studying mine waste can illustrate how mine waste becomes the default, lived-with condition of life in regions dominated by ongoing mining operations.

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模糊的问题

本文以资源开采行业的废石、尾矿、粉尘和物质文化为研究对象，探讨了资源开采过程中产生的矿山废弃物。通过实地考察、档案、当地媒体评论和对挪威北极地区和加拿大亚北极地区两个铁矿地区的有限采访，本文追踪了矿山废物，因为它经常违反管理的尝试。矿山废弃物从其规定的水槽中溢出，它在被认为是遗产废物和潜在有价值的商品之间摇摆不定，它模糊了专门用于采矿和非采矿的空间之间的界限。在遵循这些趋势的过程中，本文呼吁关注矿山废物的模糊性，以及异质性和过剩如何限制了对普遍存在的、主宰矿区的废物进行简单描述和管理的尝试。因此，研究矿山废弃物的考古学方法可以说明，在正在进行的采矿作业占主导地位的地区，矿山废弃物如何成为默认的生活条件。

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Journal of Contemporary Archaeology ARCHAEOLOGY-

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Contemporary Archaeology is the first dedicated, international, peer-reviewed journal to explore archaeology’s specific contribution to understanding the present and recent past. It is concerned both with archaeologies of the contemporary world, defined temporally as belonging to the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, as well as with reflections on the socio-political implications of doing archaeology in the contemporary world. In addition to its focus on archaeology, JCA encourages articles from a range of adjacent disciplines which consider recent and contemporary material-cultural entanglements, including anthropology, art history, cultural studies, design studies, heritage studies, history, human geography, media studies, museum studies, psychology, science and technology studies and sociology. Acknowledging the key place which photography and digital media have come to occupy within this emerging subfield, JCA includes a regular photo essay feature and provides space for the publication of interactive, web-only content on its website.