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Assemblage (archaeology)
About: Assemblage (archaeology) is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 3213 publications have been published within this topic receiving 41915 citations.
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TL;DR: In the special section on assemblage and geography as discussed by the authors, the authors reflect on the different routes and uses through which "assemblage" is being put to work in contemporary geographical scholarship.
Abstract: In this introduction to the special section on ‘Assemblage and geography’, we reflect on the different routes and uses through which ‘assemblage’ is being put to work in contemporary geographical scholarship. The purpose of the collection is not to legislate a particular definition of assemblage, or to prioritise one tradition of assemblage thinking over others, but to reflect on the multiple ways in which assemblage is being encountered and used as a descriptor, an ethos and a concept. We identify a set of tensions and differences in how the term is used in the commentaries and more generally. These revolve around the difference assemblage thinking makes to relational thought in the context of a shared orientation to the composition of social-spatial formations.
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TL;DR: In this article, it is suggested that if archaeologists are to be successful in understanding the organization of past cultural systems they must understand the organizational relationships among places which were differentially used during the operation of past systems.
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TL;DR: In this article, a discussion of what assemblage thinking might offer critical urbanism is presented, connecting with and building upon recent debates in City (2009) by outlining three sets of contributions that assemblages offers for thinking politically and normatively of the city.
Abstract: This paper offers a discussion of what assemblage thinking might offer critical urbanism. It seeks to connect with and build upon recent debates in City (2009) on critical urbanism by outlining three sets of contributions that assemblage offers for thinking politically and normatively of the city. First, assemblage thinking entails a descriptive orientation to the city as produced through relations of history and potential (or the actual and the possible), particularly in relation to the assembling of the urban commons and in the potential of ‘generative critique’. Second, assemblage as a concept functions to disrupt how we conceive agency and critique due to its focus on sociomaterial interaction and distribution. Third, assemblage, as collage, composition and gathering provides an imaginary of the cosmopolitan city, as the closest approximation in the social sciences to the assemblage idea. The paper is not an attempt to offer assemblage thinking as opposed, intellectually or politically, to the long an...
558 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider what assemblage might offer a conception of the city and argue that it is particularly useful for conceiving the spatiality of a city as processual, relational, mobile, and unequal.
Abstract: In this paper I consider what ‘assemblage’ might offer a conception of the city. Although assemblage is gaining currency in geography and beyond, there has been little effort to consider how it might be conceptualised and what its specificity might be. In offering a conceptualisation of assemblage, I bring assemblage into conversation with particular debates around dwelling and argue, first, that assemblage provides a useful basis for thinking of the city as a dwelling process and, second, that it is particularly useful for conceiving the spatiality of the city as processual, relational, mobile, and unequal. Despite their distinct intellectual histories, I suggest there is a productive debate to be had by bringing assemblage and dwelling into dialogue. I examine some of the ways in which assemblage and dwelling might interact and reflect on particular moments of fieldwork conducted in Sao Paulo and Mumbai and on diverse examples ranging from ‘slum’ housing to urban policy and mobility.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore what assemblage thinking offers social-spatial theory by asking what questions or problems assemblages responds to or opens up, using a set of questions and answers.
Abstract: In this paper we explore what assemblage thinking offers social-spatial theory by asking what questions or problems assemblage responds to or opens up. Used variously as a concept, ethos and descri...
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