Torgeir Rinke Bangstad
Researcher
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Research interests
My research interests include heritage studies, contemporary archaeology, industrial archaeology, industrial heritage, museology, memory studies, reconstruction architecture, theory and philosophy of history.
I am member of the research project Unruly Heritage: An Archaeology of the Anthropocene which aims to investigate how the haunting, ruined, and stranded material legacies of the Anthropocene challenge current conceptions of heritage and questions the traditional delineations between past and present.
Together with Þóra Pétursdóttir (UiO) I have edited the book Heritage Ecologies that was published with Routledge on August 24, 2021. Heritage Ecologies is an edited volume with 22 thought-provoking contributions presenting new perspectives on what an ecological approach to heritage might mean in a time of global warming and extensive changes in our natural and built environment. What does heritage and memory encompass in the Anthropocene? How are understandings of preservation altered when the boundaries between nature and culture are unsettled and humans may need to learn to live amidst accelerating landscape change, material decay and loss of heritage? Research presented in this book acknowledges the work of other-than-human actors, chemical, biological and material processes as part of the wider, compositional field of heritage. Through a diverse array of case studies ranging from the global seed vault on Svalbard, toxic mining heritage in Montana, plantations in Brazil and melting glaciers in Iceland, the book explores the complex ecologies of heritage where humans are neither its sole makers, nor its only inheritors.