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Department of Archaeology, History, Religious Studies and Theology thp027@post.uit.no +47 92077735 Tromsø

Þóra Pétursdóttir

Researcher

  • Thora Petursdottir, Tim Flohr Sørensen :
    Archaeological encounters: Ethics and aesthetics under the mark of the Anthropocene
    Archaeological Dialogues 2023 ARKIV / FULLTEKST / DOI
  • Torgeir Rinke Bangstad, Thora Petursdottir :
    An Ecological Approach to Heritage
    Routledge 2021
  • Bjørnar Julius Olsen, Mats Burström, Caitlin DeSilvey, Thora Petursdottir :
    After Discourse: An Introduction
    Routledge 2021
  • Bjørnar Julius Olsen, Thora Petursdottir :
    Writing Things After Discourse
    Routledge 2021
  • Thora Petursdottir, Bjørnar Julius Olsen :
    Modern Ruins: Remembrance, Resistance, and Ruin Value
    Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology/Springer Verlag 2020 PROSJEKT / FULLTEKST / DOI
  • Thora Petursdottir :
    In Passing: Beiläufigkeit at the Verge of Anthropocene
    Cambridge Archaeological Journal 2020 DOI
  • Thora Petursdottir :
    Anticipated futures? Knowing the heritage of drift matter
    International Journal of Heritage Studies (IJHS) 2020 ARKIV / DOI
  • Þóra Pétursdóttir :
    Lyrics for a duskier enlightenment. in response to Alexandra Ion
    Archaeological Dialogues 2018 DOI
  • Þóra Pétursdóttir :
    Gengið á reka: fornleifafræði mannaldar
    Árbók hins Íslenzka fornleifafélags 2018
  • Þóra Pétursdóttir :
    Drift
    Routledge 2018
  • Þóra Pétursdóttir :
    Climate Change: Archaeology and Anthropocene
    Archaeological Dialogues 2017 DOI
  • Bjørnar Julius Olsen, Þóra Pétursdóttir :
    Sværholt: Poetics of Memory
    2017
  • Þóra Pétursdóttir, Bjørnar Julius Olsen :
    Theory Adrift: The Matter of Archaeological Theorizing
    Journal of Social Archaeology 2017 ARKIV / DOI
  • Þóra Pétursdóttir :
    Cold Wars and Summer-Night Dances: An Archaeology of the Iron Curtain: Material and Metaphor, by Anna McWilliams and Minnen från vår samtid: Arkeologi, materialitet och samtidshistoria (Memories of our Time: Archaeology, Materiality and Contemporary History) by Maria Persson
    Journal of Contemporary Archaeology 2016 ARKIV
  • Þóra Pétursdóttir :
    For love of ruins
    Routledge 2016
  • Bjørnar Julius Olsen, Þóra Pétursdóttir :
    Unruly Heritage: Tracing Legacies in the Anthropocene
    Arkæologisk Forum 2016
  • Hein Bjartmann Bjerck, Mats Burström, Thora Petursdottir, Asgeir Svestad :
    For Love of Archaeology. To Bjørnar J. Olsen from friends and colleagues.
    2023
  • Torgeir Rinke Bangstad, Thora Petursdottir :
    Heritage Ecologies
    Routledge 2021
  • Bjørnar Julius Olsen, Mats Burström, Caitlin DeSilvey, Thora Petursdottir :
    After Discourse: Things, Affects, Ethics
    Routledge 2021
  • Hein Bjartmann Bjerck, Mats Burström, Thora Petursdottir, Asgeir Svestad :
    For Love of Archaeology
    2023
  • Thora Petursdottir, Felix Riede, Per Ditlef Fredriksen :
    Welcome to the New Environmental Archaeologies seminar series
    2021
  • Irmelin Axelsen, Knut Ivar Austvoll, Svein Vatsvåg Nielsen, Thora Petursdottir, Mari Arentz Østmo :
    What's the use of theory, anyway?
    Arkæologisk Forum 2021
  • Bjørnar Julius Olsen, Thora Petursdottir :
    ARV
    Utstilling Sortland 2020
  • Bjørnar Julius Olsen, Thora Petursdottir :
    ARV
    Utstilling Gjenreisningsmuseet Hammerfest 2020
  • Thora Petursdottir :
    Collaborative, Public, Participatory: Pros and Cons of an Open Archaeology
    Norwegian Archaeological Review 2020 DOI
  • Thora Petursdottir :
    Hernámið frá sjónarhóli fornleifafræðinnar: fornleifarannsókn á minjum úr síðari heimsstyrjöld á Skálum á Langanesi
    2020
  • Thora Petursdottir, Bjørnar Julius Olsen :
    Tingenes verdi - museets arv
    Ottar 2019
  • Thora Petursdottir :
    Fra arkeologisk kulturarv til kulturarvsarkeologi
    2019
  • Thora Petursdottir, Bjørnar Julius Olsen :
    ARV/ERBE
    ARV/ERBE utstilt ved Humboldt University, Berlin 2019
  • Thora Petursdottir, Geneviève Godin :
    At the pace of things: archaeology in the Anthropocene
    2019
  • Thora Petursdottir :
    Writing things
    2019
  • Thora Petursdottir :
    Fragment to form
    2019
  • Stein Farstadvoll, Bjørnar Julius Olsen, Thora Petursdottir :
    A speculative archaeology of excess: Exploring the afterlife of a derelict landscape garden
    UiT Norges arktiske universitet 2019 FULLTEKST
  • Bjørnar Julius Olsen, Þóra Pétursdóttir :
    Søppel eller kulturarv?
    2018
  • Bjørnar Julius Olsen, Joar Nango, Þóra Pétursdóttir :
    ARV
    Jubileumsutstilling UiT 50 år, Senter for Grunnforskning (CAS) 25 år 2018
  • Þóra Pétursdóttir :
    Things in passing
    2018
  • Þóra Pétursdóttir, Sørensen Tim Flohr :
    Indecent and Obscene? A view from a depraved ethics of the contemporary
    2018
  • Þóra Pétursdóttir :
    On nearing and knowing drift matter
    2018
  • Þóra Pétursdóttir :
    Drift
    2016
  • Þóra Pétursdóttir :
    Strange and Estranged: On bringing Things Close
    2016
  • Þóra Pétursdóttir, Tone Huse, Britt Kramvig :
    How and why do objects come to matter in the Arctic?
    2016
  • Þóra Pétursdóttir :
    After Discourse: Archaeology and Anthropocene
    2016
  • Þóra Pétursdóttir, Tim Flohr Sørensen :
    On the Trace: An Introduction
    2016
  • Þóra Pétursdóttir :
    Arriving at the Past: Challenges in Archaeological Reasoning
    2016
  • Þóra Pétursdóttir :
    Hagræðing menningararfs
    17. March 2016
  • Þóra Pétursdóttir :
    Radical Ontologies? Archaeology in the Age of the Anthropocene
    2016
  • Þóra Pétursdóttir :
    Archaeology of Drift Matter: Driftwood and the Movement of Things Around People
    2016
  • Þóra Pétursdóttir :
    Book review of: ‘Industrial Heritage in Denmark: Landscapes, Environments and Historical Archaeology. Edited by Caspar Jørgensen and Morten Pedersen Aarhus: Kultur Styrelsen and Aarhus University Press. 285 pp. ISBN 978 87 7124 108 2
    Nordicum-Mediterraneum 2016
  • Britt Kramvig, Tone Huse, Helen Ruth Verran, Þóra Pétursdóttir :
    How and why do objects come to matter in the Arctic?
    2016
  • Þóra Pétursdóttir :
    Wrack Zone Archaeology: The Heritage of Stranded Things
    2015

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    Publications outside Cristin

    2017

    Pétursdóttir, Þ. and Olsen, B. (2017) 'Theory Adrift: The Matter of Archaeological Theorizing'. Journal of Social Archaeology.

    Pétursdóttir, Þ. (2017) 'Climate Change: Archaeology and Anthropocene'. Archaeological Dialogues.

    Pétursdóttir, Þ. (2017) 'Gengið á reka: fornleifafræði mannaldar'. Árbók hins íslenzka fornleifafélags, 2017.

    Olsen, B. and Pétursdóttir, Þ. (2017) 'Sværholt: Poetics of Memory'. In: J. Kaila and J. Knuutila eds. Inside and Beside the Camp. Helsinki: The Academy of Fine Arts, University of Helsinki, pp. 88-95.

    2016

    Pétursdóttir, Þ. (2016) ‘For love of ruins’. In: T.F. Sørensen and M. Bille eds. Elements of Architecture. London: Routledge.

    Olsen, B. and Pétursdóttir, Þ. (2016) 'Unruly Heritage: Tracing legacies in the Anthropocene'. Arkæologisk Forum 35, pp. 38-45.

    Pétursdóttir, Þ. (2016) 'Cold wars and summer night dances'. Review essay of Anna MacWilliams', An Archaeology of the Iron Curtain: Material and Metaphor, Stockholm University, 2013, and Maria Person's, Minnen från vår samtid: Arkeologi, materialitet och samtidshistoria, Gothenburg University, 2014. Journal of Contemporary Archaeology, https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/cold-wars-summer-night-dances/

    Pétursdóttir, Þ. (2016) 'Hagræðing menningararfs' Vísir 17.03.16. http://www.visir.is/g/2016160318975

    2015

    Pétursdóttir, Þ. (2015) 'Sharing ground' (Reply to Gavin Lucas), Current Swedish Archaeology 23,  67-71.

    Pétursdóttir, Þ. (2015) ‘Die Sorge für Verfallendes: Theoretisierung von materiellem Kulturerbe’. In: P.W. Stockhammer and H.P. Hahn eds. Lost in Things: Fragen an die Welt des Materiellen. Trans. Vanessa Schmidt. Münster: Waxmann, pp. 105-127

    2014

    Grabowski, R., Olsen, B., Pétursdóttir, Þ. and Witmore, C. (2014) ‘Teillager 6, Sværholt: The archaeology of a POW camp in Finnmark, Arctic Norway', Fennoscandia Archaeologica XXXI, 3-24.

    Pétursdóttir, Þ. and Olsen, B. (2014) ‘Imaging modern decay: the aesthetics of ruin photography’, Journal of Contemporary Archaeology 1(1): 7-56.

    Olsen, B. and Pétursdóttir, Þ. (2014) ‘Sarnes Internat: archaeological aesthetics’ [a photo essay], Journal of Contemporary Archaeology 1(1): 57-72.

    Pétursdóttir, Þ. (2014) ‘Things-out-of-hand: the aesthetics of abandonment’, in B. Olsen and Þ. Pétursdóttir (eds.) Ruin Memories: Materiality, Aesthetics and the Archaeology of the Recent Past, Routledge, pp. 335-364.

    Pétursdóttir, Þ. and Olsen, B. (2014) ‘An archaeology of ruins’, in B. Olsen and Þ. Pétursdóttir (eds.) Ruin Memories: Materiality, Aesthetics and the Archaeology of the Recent Past, Routledge, pp.3-29.

    Olsen, B. and Pétursdóttir, Þ. (eds.) (2014) Ruin Memories: Materiality, Aesthetics and the Archaeology of the Recent Past, Routledge.

    Pétursdóttir, Þ. and Olsen, B. (2014) ‘Modern ruins: remembrance, resistance and ruin value’, in P.R. Mullins and J. Schofield (eds.) Encyclopaedia of Global Archaeology: Archaeology in the Modern World, Springer.

    2013

    Pétursdóttir, Þ. (2013) ‘Lagerhúsið við síldarstöðina á Eyri í Ingólfsfirði – Ljósmyndaþáttur’ [The Storage house at the Eyri herring station in Ingólfsfjörður – a photo essay], Árbók hins íslenzka fornleifaféags 2013.


    Pétursdóttir, Þ. (2013) Concrete matters: towards an archaeology of things, PhD Thesis University of Tromsø, Department of Archaeology and Social Anthropology. Accessible at: http://munin.uit.no/handle/10037/5508

    Pétursdóttir, Þ. (2013) ‘Concrete matters: ruins of modernity and the things called heritage’, Journal of Social Archaeology 13(1): 31-53.

    2012

    Pétursdóttir, Þ. (2012) ‘Small things forgotten now included, or what else do things deseve?’, International Journal of Historical Archaeology 16(3): 577-603.  

    Pétursdóttir, Þ. (2012) ‘Material memories among pre-Christian graves in Iceland’, in Ragnhild Berge, Marek E. Jasinski and Kalle Sognnes (eds.) N-TAG Ten: Proceedings of the 10th Nordic TAG conference at Stiklestad, Norway 2009, British Archaeological Reports International Series 2399, pp. 31-39, Oxford: Archaeopress.

    Pétursdóttir, Þ. (2012) ‘Fé og frændur í eina gröf: Hugleiðingar um kuml og greftrun í íslensku samhengi’ [‘Fé and frændr in one grave: pre Christian grave customs in Iceland’], Ólafía: Rit Fornleifafræðingafélags Íslands, 4: 139-162.

    Pétursdóttir, Þ. (2012) ‘Sagan af klaustrinu á Skriðu’ [Book review], Saga L(2): 177-181.

    2011

    Pétursdóttir, Þ. (2011) ‘Kuml’ [‘Pre-Christian graves’], in Birna Lárusdóttir (ed.) Mannvist: Sýnisbók íslenskra fornleifa, pp. 54-71, Reykjavík: Opna.

    Pétursdóttir, Þ. (2011) ‘Nýminjar: (Forn)leifar og (forn)leifafræði’ [‘Archaeology of the contemporary past’], in Birna Lárusdóttir (ed.) Mannvist: Sýnisbók íslenskra fornleifa, pp. 424-433. Reykjavík: Opna.

    Pétursdóttir, Þ. (2011) ‘Grafist fyrir um mannvirkin í Arnarbæli við Selfljót: Af niðurstöðum rannsókna haustið 2010’ [‘Structures at Arnarbæli by Selfjót investigated: Results from archaeological excavations in autumn 2010’], Múlaþing 37: 35-43.

    Hermannsdóttir, Á. og Pétursdóttir, Þ. (2011) ‘Fornleifaskráning á Öxi’ [‘Archaeological survey on Öxi’], Múlaþing 37: 127-135.

    2010

    Pétursdóttir, Þ. (2010) ‘Nokkur orð í belg um íslenska kumlhesta’ [‘Considering Icelandic horse burials’], Árbók hins íslenzka fornleifafélags 2010: 185-209.

    Pétursdóttir, Þ. (2010) ‘Endurfundir: Fornleifarannsóknir styrktar af Kristnihátíðarsjóði 2001-2005’ [Book review], Árbók hins íslenzka fornleifafélags 2010, 227-232.

    2009

    Pétursdóttir (2009) ‘Icelandic Viking age graves: lack in material – lack of interpretation”, Archaeologia Islandica 7: 22-40.

    2008

    Jóhannesdóttir, S. and Pétursdóttir, Þ. Fornleifaskóli barnanna. Árbók Þingeyinga, pp. 25-30.

    2007

    Þóra Pétursdóttir (2007) “Deyr fé, deyja frændr”. Re-animating mortuary remains from Viking Age Iceland, MA Thesis, University of Tromsø, Department of Archaeology and Social Anthropology. Accessible at : http://www.ub.uit.no/munin/bitstream/10037/1165/3/thesis.pdf

    2005

    Þóra Pétursdóttir (2005) “Minjar sem hverfa…” [‘Archaeological remains under threat…’], Múlaþing 32: 47-68.

     

    Research interests

    Archaeology of the contemporary past, archaeological theory, material culture and thing theory