Multivocality Research Papers

This paper demonstrates how individuals have inscribed the Natchitoches Trace trailscape with meaningful narratives via oral traditions, historical accounts and material evidence, and considers how descendent populations curate their... more

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- by Jade L Robison
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  Archaeology, Anthropology, Historical Archaeology, Cultural Heritage

This paper rethinks the concept of voice in ways that resist normative humanist assumptions and explores the possibilities of an alternative posthuman ontologics of voice for qualitative praxis. I sketch the contours of a feminist... more

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- by Rachelle Chadwick
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  Sociology, Psychology, Feminist Theory, Posthumanism

Livro com a coletânea de vários trabalhos ligados ao tema maior sobre a multivocalidade da arqueologia pública no Brasil.

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- by Alexandre Navarro
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  History, Archaeology, Cultural Heritage, Heritage Conservation

This study centers on the hand signs of the South Scandinavian Bronze Age and examines the multivocal nature of the iconography on a wider scale, in order to reach a better understanding of the symbol in question. Through an analysis of... more

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- by Stefanos Gimatzidis and +2
  Magda Pieniążek
  D. Sıla Mangaloğlu-Votruba
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  History, Archaeology, Classical Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology

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- by Stefanos Gimatzidis
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  Ancient History, Archaeology, Classical Archaeology, Nationalism

Equity and the dissemination of knowledge remain major challenges in science. Peer-reviewed journal publications are generally the most cited, yet certain groups dominate in archaeology. Such uniformity of voice profoundly limits not only... more

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- by Tiffany J. Fulkerson
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  Archaeology, Gender, Women, Equality

Contributing across the domains of open transdisciplinary inquiry and transdisciplinary- and practice-oriented architectural and urbanism research engaging critically with participation in urban contexts, this research proposes critical... more

Contributing across the domains of open transdisciplinary inquiry and transdisciplinary- and practice-oriented architectural and urbanism research engaging critically with participation in urban contexts, this research proposes critical indirectness as a multivocal design approach in participatory practice, developed through conceptual-analytical inquiry into three cases involving engagements between external art and design practitioners and public cultural institutions around participatory projects in Gothenburg.

It joins with calls for art and design practitioners' greater engagement with public sector institutions as way of working towards a more durable and wider impact, with calls to model a more de-centered 'urban-combinatory' practice on the plurality, hybridity, discontinuities, and contingencies of the contemporary city, and with calls for more multiple, contradictory approaches. Its methodological approach, open transdisciplinary turn-taking, likewise pursued these aims via alternating engagements between institutional and external actors, my own and others' practices, and theory from multiple fields.

The primary aim is to explore how art and design practitioners (including researchers and institutional actors) can develop greater capacity to critically wayfind within the complexities of engagements with public cultural institutions in and around participatory processes. This is supported by two interrelated inquiries, the first reworks monovocal understandings of participation, critique, institutions, and actors as multivocal—simultaneously collective, complex, and involving actors' critical and creative trajectories of agency. The second conceptualizes multivocal relations as having their own critical efficacy through potentially estranging effects, which can be both reflexively perceived by practitioners and furthered by design. These two inquiries combine in the use, in case analyses, of alternating voices, transversing voices, and wavering voices—conceptual-analytical lenses enabling focus on the critical and creative potentials of spatialities of multivocal estrangement generated by differential interrelations between 'voices'.

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- by Jon Geib
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  Design, Transdisciplinarity, Participation, Spatiality

The Athens 2004 Olympic Games was seen as an opportunity to “Europeanise” and modernise the Greek capital. However, the works materialised for their preparation significantly altered the urban geography of the city, whilst also enabling... more

The Athens 2004 Olympic Games was seen as an opportunity to “Europeanise” and modernise the Greek capital. However, the works materialised for their preparation significantly altered the urban geography of the city, whilst also enabling for the gradual imposition of neoliberal governance and schemes that still affect Athens today. The reconfigurations enforced upon the urban landscape and its population saw the rise of residential activism and the persistent reclamation of public spaces, significantly increase with the eruption of the economic crisis in 2008 and the 2011 Syntagma Square Occupation.

The archaeological sites of Philopappou Hill and Plato’s Academy have featured prominently in these reclamations by residential movements, as the ripples of neoliberal policies continue to threaten residents’ uses of and engagements with these spaces. The particular archaeological sites maintain a dual function; they are considered spaces of archaeological significance whilst also operating as parks for recreational uses. They thus present unique cases of open, public spaces within the Athenian urban environment containing archaeological remnants, fully integrated into the daily lives of local communities.

An additional issue affecting the communities’ interaction with the archaeological sites are the efforts to monumentalise spaces and limit their use by local communities—such as in the case of Philopappou—or the lack of attention due to the location of sites in ‘degraded’ areas, as in the case of Plato’s Academy. As such, residential activists most prominently fight for the protection of these spaces from capitalist endeavours as well as the archaeological practices still catalysed by colonialist modes of operation.

Through the use of archaeological ethnography, this research explores the modern cultural biographies of the spaces of interest through the extra-official activities of the local residents, their ‘unofficial’ heritage discourses, and their residential activism in their efforts to claim their right to be a part of the decision-making processes which affect the protection and future of the spaces. It reveals the modern significations and meanings attributed to archaeological sites by the people experiencing them in their daily lives, the ways in which they have redefined the spaces in the present, and the need to decolonise and re-evaluate archaeological practices.

Amidst the hysteria for constant connectivity, transparency and ‘efficient’ creativity which belies the current crisis of creativity, this paper asserts the value of poetic incommunicability—to creativity and to society. The role of the... more

This practice-led thesis constitutes a timely response to the absence of audio and visual representation of labour practices and post-industrial space in the context of Ireland’s accelerated economic development during the past decade,... more

This practice-led thesis constitutes a timely response to the absence of audio and visual representation of labour practices and post-industrial space in the context of Ireland’s accelerated economic development during the past decade, resulting in its current status as the most globalised economy in the world. The significance of Ireland’s global position is amplified by the fact that the South of Ireland never experienced the Industrial Revolution and has thus been propelled from an agricultural-based economy to one defined as post-industrial of the so-called, 'Celtic Tiger'. In both its methodological design and implementation, the study stakes out new terrain through the combined use of photography, digital video and ethnographic methods, further engaging with the oral testimony of workers in the post-industrialised multinational location/fieldsite of Hewlett-Packard Manufacturing and Technology Campus, Leixlip, County Kildare.

The thesis comprises three chapters together with an introduction and conclusion. The first chapter situates Hewlett-Packard’s presence in Ireland within an historicised and economic framework, while simultaneously providing critical readings of propagandist representations by the public and private enterprise sectors. The chapter’s juxtaposition of these readings, together with disparate spatio-temporal labour practices, historical periods and the introduction of different theoretical paradigms, enacts a strategic textual device used throughout this chapter and the following two. The second chapter engages directly with methodological questions underpinning the research project, alongside foregrounding different fieldwork practices. The textual presentation of interview transcript material, photography and digital video is brought into dialogue with depictions of industrialisation from the late nineteenth century to the present. The third and final chapter both identifies and establishes theoretical and representational strategies at work in the rationale, design and content of the re-constitution of the research material in the format of an installation titled, ‘The Breathing Factory’.

Completed through the Centre for Transcultural Research and Media Practice, TU Dublin (2002-2005).

Note: One of the first practice-led postgraduate research projects in the Republic of Ireland and the first using photography as a central research method.

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- by Mark Curran
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  Technology, Globalization, Photography, Ethnography

It is significant that this plea for a fundamental reconsideration and reorganization of knowledge production, classification and dissemination is published here and not in one of the currently dominant Anglo-Saxon journals.

Imaginable aesthetic enactivism? Reframing championships and the quest to conquer Con-taining significance in the con-quest of the moment Cognitive significance of a con-tainer Creative challenge of disparate organization of figures of... more

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- by Anthony Judge
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  Aesthetics, Rhetoric, Embodied Cognition, Embodiment

Chapter and Book available/readable at: https://uapress.arizona.edu/book/decolonizing-prehistory

El capítulo y el libro se pueden leer en el siguiente enlace:
https://uapress.arizona.edu/book/decolonizing-prehistory

En este trabajo discutimos la idea de multivocalidad (multivo cality) en arqueología teniendo en cuenta las implicancias onto ló gicas, epistemológicas y políticas que se activan cuando se plantean proyectos inscriptos bajo un «ser» y... more

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- by Rafael Pedro Curtoni
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  Archaeology, Multivocality

Livro com a coletânea de vários trabalhos ligados ao tema maior sobre a multivocalidade da arqueologia pública no Brasil.

Figuerero Torres, María José y Guillermo L. Mengoni Goñalons . 2016. Sumando voces – una experiencia en el trabajo conjunto entre arqueólogos y comunidades originarias de Santa Cruz, Argentina. Actas del XIX Congreso Nacional de... more

Figuerero Torres, María José y Guillermo L. Mengoni Goñalons . 2016. Sumando voces – una experiencia en el trabajo conjunto entre arqueólogos y comunidades originarias de Santa Cruz, Argentina. Actas del XIX Congreso Nacional de Arqueología Argentina. Serie Monográfica y Didáctica 54:2262-2265. ISSN 0327-5868 http://hdl.handle.net/10915/54205

Resumen
El proyecto de investigación que llevamos adelante en un sector cordillerano del extremo noroeste de Santa Cruz, tiene por objetivo ampliar y profundizar el conocimiento que actualmente tenemos acerca de la historia de la ocupación indígena, desde el poblamiento inicial hasta momentos recientes, haciendo particular énfasis en la articulación entre el pasado y el presente. Esto contrasta con la concepción de la sociedad actual de la provincia, que ubica a lo indígena en el pasado y mayormente ignora su presencia actual. Presentamos una experiencia del proceso de escritura de un libro destinado a la sociedad en general, sobre el pasado y presente indígena de la provincia. Este brinda los resultados de nuestra investigación y suma la participación y consulta con las comunidades originarias. Nuestra iniciativa en sumar a las comunidades en el proyecto del libro, marca una forma novedosa de dar a conocer la voz de las comunidades en Santa Cruz y validar la continuidad de su presencia en el territorio. Las comunidades, a su vez, ven en este libro una herramienta que les sirve para “nuestra difusión, para darnos a conocer y para que el mundo sepa que todavía existimos, no de la manera que lo hacíamos antes, pero estamos igual”.

Abstract
Our research project in Northwestern Santa Cruz province, Argentina, studies the history of indigenous occupation, from the moment of first settlement till the recent past, striving to bridge the connection between past and present times. This contrasts with the notion, current in the contemporary provincial society, that places the indigenous people solely in the past thereby ignoring them in the present. We present the process of a collaborative writing project, centered on the past and present of indigenous peoples in the provincial territory and destined for the lay public. The book presents the results of our research and is enriched by the participation and consultation of local originary communities. Our initiative in ensuring this participation is a novel way of making the voices of indigenous communities known and thus validating the continuity of their presence. At the same time, these communities conceived the book as a tool for “communication, to make ourselves known, and for the world to know that we still exist, not the way we did before, but we’re here still”.

Centrally informed through the application of photography, my multi-media practice has evolved to one conversant in ethnography and the principles of a critically reflexive practice. Ethnography can be viewed as an epistemological... more

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- by Mark Curran
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  Photography, Research Methodology, Ethnography, Multimedia

Self-reflexive challenge of any presentation in a psychosocial context Using the Lauburu to frame the challenges of multivocal improvisation Challenging impoverishment of conventional discourse Comprehensible clues to multivocal... more

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- by Anthony Judge
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  Poetry, Discourse, Music performance and improvisation, Bertsolaritza

There is almost a consensus in Critical Heritage Studies that 'communities' should be given the opportunity to develop their own heritage discourses, instead of having to adopt the Authorised Heritage Discourse (AHD) (Smith 2006).... more

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In 2005, the Republic of Ireland was defined as the ‘most globalised economy in the world’ (IDA Ireland). The significance of this position is amplified by the fact that the South of Ireland never experienced an Industrial Revolution... more

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- by Mark Curran
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  Technology, Globalization, Photography, Ethnography

Equity and the dissemination of knowledge remain major challenges in science. Peer-reviewed journal publications are generally the most cited, yet certain groups dominate in archaeology. Such uniformity of voice profoundly limits not only... more

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- by Shannon Tushingham
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  Archaeology, Gender, Women, Equality

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