Vectors of Improvement: The Material Footprint of Nineteenth- Through Twentieth-Century Irish National Policy, Inishark, County Galway, Ireland

Kuijt, Ian; Conway, Meagan; Shakour, Katie; McNeill, Casey; Brown, Claire

doi:10.1007/s10761-014-0283-0

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“…With little history of intensified pastoralism, the twentieth-century development of the mountains is due almost entirely to state intervention (cf. Kuijt et al 2015) for a parallel case in a marginal zone of western Ireland). The state tackled the mountains as a challenge to its political control, and as an affront to modernity; these impetuses resulted in a wide range of development projects.…”

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“…This paper presents the results of the first such fieldwork, supplemented by information from textual sources, maps, and aerial photographs. It is the first work in the region to contribute to a growing body of historical archaeology on rural and mountainous areas of Europe , in particular of state intervention and the massive social changes of the twentieth century (Kuijt et al 2015;Pluciennik et al 2004;Samuels 2010).…”

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The Twentieth Century Invention of Ancient Mountains: The Archaeology of Highland Aspromonte

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Chesson

Forbes

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Int J Histor Archaeol

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The high mountains of the Mediterranean are often considered as refuges of ancient traditions, particularly of pastoralism and brigandage. Is this image true? This paper reports the first systematic archaeological research on Aspromonte, Southern Calabria. Archaeological, cartographic and air photo evidence suggests that people used the high mountains in all periods from the Neolithic onwards. However, early usage was lowintensity and probably for special purposes such as iron-smelting, charcoal-burning and logging; only in the Classical Greek period was there sustained effort at inhabiting higher areas. The real development of the mountains came in the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries. From the 1920s onwards, there were large-scale, state-fostered projects for economic exploitation of forests, political control of territory, and creation of a recreational landscape. These endeavors tied into modernist ideas of the state, as well as period concepts such as Alpinism and healthy outdoor recreation for city dwellers. Ironically, as soon as these modern efforts made the high mountains accessible, they were assigned a chronotope, and were reimagined as the exemplification of an ancient way of life.

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The Twentieth Century Invention of Ancient Mountains: The Archaeology of Highland Aspromonte

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The Bennachie Colony: A Nineteenth-Century Informal Community in Northeast Scotland

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Morrow

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Vectors of Improvement: The Material Footprint of Nineteenth- Through Twentieth-Century Irish National Policy, Inishark, County Galway, Ireland

Cited by 10 publications

References 24 publications

The Twentieth Century Invention of Ancient Mountains: The Archaeology of Highland Aspromonte

The Twentieth Century Invention of Ancient Mountains: The Archaeology of Highland Aspromonte

The Bennachie Colony: A Nineteenth-Century Informal Community in Northeast Scotland

The Good Death and the Materiality of Mourning: Nineteenth- to Twentieth-Century Coastal Ireland

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