Infrastructure and the Conduct of Government: Annexation of the Eastport Community into the City of Annapolis During the Twentieth Century

Palus, Matthew

doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-0192-6_12

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“…She also importantly notes that a sturdy urban infrastructure lay behind /underneath this façade. In doing so, her work resonates with that of Palus (2011) about the need to give more attention to the infrastructure of the especially more recent world. The article begins to wonder about the present, and specifically about McMansions.…”

Section: Theories Of Materialitymentioning

confidence: 83%

Commentary on Gilded Ages, Now and Then

Paynter

2012

Int J Histor Archaeol

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Section: Theories Of Materialitymentioning

confidence: 83%

Commentary on Gilded Ages, Now and Then

Paynter

2012

Int J Histor Archaeol

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“…Archaeologists interested in African America have engaged a number of transdisciplinary realms of theory, including critical race theory and whiteness (Bell 2005, Epperson 2004, González-Tennant & González-Tennant 2016, McDavid 2007, Palmer 2011, Palus 2011, White 2017, semiotics and pragmatism (Agbe-Davies 2016Dawdy 2005;Jeppson 2007;McDavid 2002;Morris 2017;Planto 2021), and, most notably, Black feminist theory (see above, but also Burnett 2022, Flewellen et al 2021a, Franklin 2020, Franklin & Wilson 2020, González-Tennant 2018, Sterling 2015, Watkins 2020.…”

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confidence: 99%

African American Archaeology, for Now

Agbe-Davies

2022

Annu. Rev. Anthropol.

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A focus on institutions frames this examination of the archaeology of African America. While initially emphasizing the institution of slavery and theories of Black difference, the field today has a much wider scope. Researchers engaged in this work critically examine past and present-day institutions. As such, this review also considers the place of African American archaeology in engaged scholarship, critical theory, and self-reflexive practice. As in past reviews, the emphasis is on the United States, with occasional references to important work in the rest of the African diaspora. African American archaeology is shown to be inextricably interwoven with scholarly work in North American archaeology, African American studies, heritage studies, and social theory. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Anthropology Volume 51 is October 2022. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

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“…Outside of archaeological circles, the last decade has witnessed a great deal of interdisciplinary interest on the topic of infrastructure, drawing together work by ethnographers, geographers, political scientists, and literary scholars (e.g., Anand 2012;Elyachar 2010Elyachar , 2012Harvey 2012;Larkin 2008Larkin , 2013Redfield 2011;Robbins 2007;Star 1999;Von Schnitzler 2013). Perhaps the earliest archaeological attempt to grapple with the topic was Palus' (2010Palus' ( , 2011 analysis of public utilities in the city of Annapolis during the twentieth century-but it is only in the last few years that we have seen a (modest) increase in the number of archaeological studies that explicitly foreground infrastructure as a theoretical lens. Like Palus' (2010) study of Annapolis, Smith (2016) centers her theoretical discussion on the infrastructure of urbanized societies specifically, while Hauser (2015) frames his account of infrastructural 1 Why infrastructure has received so little attention as a category in comparison to urbanism is ultimately a historiographical question, and beyond the scope of this article.…”

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Towards an Archaeological Theory of Infrastructure

Wilkinson

2018

J Archaeol Method Theory

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Infrastructure makes up a considerable portion of the material culture that archaeologists study. Whether measured in terms of spatial extension or just sheer mass, infrastructural entities are often among the biggest artifacts that archaeologists encounter in the field. Yet there is no overarching theoretical framework for the archaeological study of infrastructure, and its different varieties tend to be treated in a rather piecemeal fashion. This article therefore seeks to lay some foundations for a more theoretically unified approach to infrastructure within the discipline. It offers a general definition or infrastructure, as well as a basic typology. The typology presented is fourfold, encompassing (1) static infrastructure (e.g., terraces, harbors and storehouses), (2) circulatory infrastructure (e.g., highways, canals, aqueducts, and sewers), (3) bounding infrastructure (e.g., palisades, ditches, and corrals), and (4) signaling infrastructure (e.g., lighthouses and beacons). By analogy with more heavily theorized categories such as urbanism, it is suggested that infrastructure should be a topic of global comparative analysis within archaeology and its allied disciplines.

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Infrastructure and the Conduct of Government: Annexation of the Eastport Community into the City of Annapolis During the Twentieth Century

Cited by 5 publications

References 29 publications

Commentary on Gilded Ages, Now and Then

Commentary on Gilded Ages, Now and Then

African American Archaeology, for Now

Towards an Archaeological Theory of Infrastructure

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