After a few weeks of EAA videos I thought it would be pleasurable to mix it up. Back to the CHAT conference and the Rural political session: Think large and think pig: An archaeology of rural protest https://youtu.be/o9_Llp6XRgM Jobbe Wijen Independent Researcher, The Netherlands. What are rural ways of protest and how can we think about these archaeologically? When tens of thousands of refugees from Syria, Libya and Eritrea fledto Europe in 2015, and Dutch society was touched by the effects of war that, until then, could be experienced as distant – and perhaps even unimportant to everyday life. Rural societies were soon to be confronted with governmental plans for the construction of refugee camps in their localities. When theannouncement came that 500 refugees were to be located in Heesch, and this rural village became the arena of brief but intense civil protest that made headlines across the country. In this paper I will review the protests of January 2016 in the village of Heesch and discuss how the methods and materials were typical for the agrarian setting in which they took area. I will address […]
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