Should archaeology have a future?
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
6-26-2019
Department
Department of Social Sciences
Abstract
Archaeologists have recently been discussing what the future may hold for archaeology, a focus firmly situated within the context that the discipline of archaeology is authentic and legitimate and deserves to have a future. In this paper, I want to challenge these ideas and think instead about whether archaeology should even have a future. This line of reasoning is developed by examining the relationship between capitalism and the academy, neoliberal transformations to higher education, and some of the ways that archaeologists have responded. I conclude with some suggestions for alternatives, both for those working within the dominant capitalist academic structures themselves and those that eschew capitalism itself.
Publication Title
Journal of Contemporary Archaeology
Recommended Citation
Wurst, L.
(2019).
Should archaeology have a future?.
Journal of Contemporary Archaeology,
6(1).
http://doi.org/10.1558/jca.33840
Retrieved from: https://digitalcommons.mtu.edu/michigantech-p/689
Publisher's Statement
© 2019. Equinox Publishing Ltd. Publisher’s version of record: https://doi.org/10.1558/jca.33840