Dr Richard Hutchings

Visiting Scholar
Vancouver Island University, Canada
Participates in 2 items
Richard Hutchings, Ph.D., is Visiting Scholar at Vancouver Island University, British Columbia, Canada, holding the positions of Research Fellow, Institute for Coastal Research, and Research Associate, Department of Anthropology. He is the author of Commercial Archaeology in British Columbia, Teaching Anti-Colonial Archaeology, and Archaeology as Disaster Capitalism. His research involves documenting and mapping the late modern heritage environment, particularly in terms of statecraft, neoliberalization, and global crisis.

Sessions in which Dr Richard Hutchings participates

Saturday 4 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
11:00
Heritage and the Late Modern State I
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520
11:00 - 15:00 | 4 hours
Heritage Changes PoliticsHeritage in Conflicts
Heritage changes politicsPolitical uses of heritageUses of heritageHeritage and conflicts

This session explores the different ways late modern states control and translate heritage, both their own and that of others. While modern governments have always played a role in the production and authorization of heritage, late modern states have unprecedented command over the heritage landscape. Coinciding with the postwar economic boom, globalization, and most recently neoliberalism, the state has come to dominate the most vital aspects of heritage, ranging from research (heritage produ...

Sunday 5 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
9:00
Heritage and the Late Modern State II
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520
9:00 - 12:30 | 3 hours 30 minutes
Heritage Changes PoliticsHeritage in Conflicts

This session explores the different ways late modern states control and translate heritage, both their own and that of others. While modern governments have always played a role in the production and authorization of heritage, late modern states have unprecedented command over the heritage landscape. Coinciding with the postwar economic boom, globalization, and most recently neoliberalism, the state has come to dominate the most vital aspects of heritage, ranging from research (heritage produ...