Like a chicken talking to a duck about a kettle of fish

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“…Rarer still are discussions of archaeology's demise (SMITH, 1999;WATERTON, 2009;WURST, 2019). That gap is the focus of this paper, which is rooted in critical future studies and sociology (GODHE; GOODE, 2018;TUTTON, 2017) and building on our previous work on anxiety and sustainable archaeology (HUTCHINGS; LA SALLE, 2019aSALLE, , 2019b.…”

“…To distance themselves from that critique, archaeologists routinely omit CRM from their definitions and assessments of archaeology (HUTCHINGS; , 2019a, 2019bHUTCHINGS, 2016). Reflecting on that glaring omission, Ferris and Dent (2020) link archaeology's underlying institutional anxiety to the disconnect between how academics portray archaeology and how it is actually practiced.…”

“…Archaeologists today describe having "chronic anxieties fuelling an ongoing, internal angst" (FERRIS; DENT, 2020, p. 35) resulting in a "pre-apocalyptic feel" (ROSENZWEIG, 2020, p. 284). Such worries are not surprising given that uncertainty about the future is endemic both in late modern society, which Niedzviecki (2015) calls an "anxiety factory" (NIEDZVIECKI, 2015, p. 191, 217), and in the university, where "a climate of perverse incentives and hypercompetition" constitutes "the new normal" (EDWARDS; ROY, 2016, p. 51; see also BERG et al, 2016;LA SALLE 2019a, 2019b). Yet, contrary to what has been claimed, enchantment remedies neither archaeology's problems nor modernity's problems.…”

“…(GODHE;GOODE, 2018, p. 151) The twentieth anniversary of Laurajane Smith's (1999) groundbreaking article 'The last archaeologist' came and went without mention in 2019. This should surprise no one as truly critical discussion of archaeology's future is rare (HÖGBERG et al, 2017;LA SALLE, 2019a, 2019bSPENNEMAN, 2007aSPENNEMAN, , 2007b. Rarer still are discussions of archaeology's demise (SMITH, 1999;WATERTON, 2009;WURST, 2019).…”