After Discourse published on Routledge

The edited volume After Discourse: Things, Affects, Ethics was recently published in the series Routledge Archaeologies of the Contemporary World. Editors are Bjørnar Olsen, Caitlin DeSilvey, Mats Burström and Þóra Pétursdóttir and the book features contributions by scholars who were part of the research project After Discourse: Things, Archaeology, and Heritage in the 21st Century at Centre for Advanced Study …

Hot off the press – “Ballast: Laden with history”

A new book from archaeologist Mats Burström of Stockholm University has just been published in both Swedish and English on Nordic Academic Press. Research presented in the book shows the fascinating afterlife of material such as sand, gravel, stone or rubble, used until very recently to give ships stability. In this richly illustrated book, Mats Burström charts how ballast has …