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Bilde av Pétursdóttir, Þóra
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Þóra Pétursdóttir



  • Thora Petursdottir, Geneviève Godin, Estelle Praet, John Schofield :
    Archaeology and Plastics: An Introduction
    Routledge 2024
  • 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, Thora Petursdottir :
    Writing Things After Discourse
    Routledge 2021
  • Bjørnar Julius Olsen, Mats Burström, Caitlin DeSilvey, Thora Petursdottir :
    After Discourse: An Introduction
    Routledge 2021
  • 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
  • Thora Petursdottir, Bjørnar Julius Olsen :
    Modern Ruins: Remembrance, Resistance, and Ruin Value
    Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology/Springer Verlag 2020 PROSJEKT / FULLTEKST / DOI
  • Þóra Pétursdóttir :
    Drift
    Routledge 2018
  • Þóra Pétursdóttir :
    Gengið á reka: fornleifafræði mannaldar
    Árbók hins Íslenzka fornleifafélags 2018
  • Þóra Pétursdóttir :
    Lyrics for a duskier enlightenment. in response to Alexandra Ion
    Archaeological Dialogues 2018 DOI
  • Bjørnar Julius Olsen, Þóra Pétursdóttir :
    Sværholt: Poetics of Memory
    2017
  • Thora Petursdottir, Geneviève Godin, Estelle Praet, John Schofield :
    Routledge Handbook of Archaeology and Plastics
    Routledge 2024
  • 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
  • Torgeir Rinke Bangstad, Thora Petursdottir :
    Heritage Ecologies
    Routledge 2021
  • Katherine Burlingame, Thora Petursdottir, Sanne Bech Holmgaard :
    Relics of climate change: Icy futures in a melting world
    2024
  • Thora Petursdottir :
    Nature as Heritage in the Anthropocene
    2024
  • Hein Bjartmann Bjerck, Mats Burström, Thora Petursdottir, Asgeir Svestad :
    For Love of Archaeology
    2023
  • Thora Petursdottir :
    Drift
    Sidestone Press 2023
  • Thora Petursdottir :
    Bautasteinar í upplýsingasamfélagi: hugleiðing um mikilvægi nýminja
    2023
  • Thora Petursdottir :
    The Gender of Theory in Archaeology
    2023
  • Thora Petursdottir :
    Samtidsarkeologi: et paradoks?
    Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift 2022
  • Thora Petursdottir, Irmelin Axelsen, Mari Arentz Østmo, Svein Vatsvåg Nielsen, Knut Ivar Austvoll :
    What’s the use of theory, anyway?
    Arkæologisk Forum 2022
  • Thora Petursdottir :
    What’s the use of theory?
    2022
  • Thora Petursdottir :
    Opið bréf til ráðherra, Lilju Daggar Alfreðsdóttur, varðandi ráðningu þjóðminjavarðar
    Frettabladid 2022
  • Thora Petursdottir :
    Sustainable Uncertainty: Heritage, nature and change
    2022
  • Irmelin Axelsen, Knut Ivar Austvoll, Svein Vatsvåg Nielsen, Thora Petursdottir, Mari Arentz Østmo :
    What's the use of theory, anyway?
    Arkæologisk Forum 2021
  • Thora Petursdottir, Felix Riede, Per Ditlef Fredriksen :
    Welcome to the New Environmental Archaeologies seminar series
    2021
  • Thora Petursdottir :
    Ecotone
    Routledge 2021
  • Torgeir Rinke Bangstad, Thora Petursdottir :
    An Ecological Approach to Heritage
    Routledge 2021
  • Thora Petursdottir :
    Hernámið frá sjónarhóli fornleifafræðinnar: fornleifarannsókn á minjum úr síðari heimsstyrjöld á Skálum á Langanesi
    2020
  • Bjørnar Julius Olsen, Thora Petursdottir :
    ARV
    Utstilling Gjenreisningsmuseet Hammerfest 2020
  • Bjørnar Julius Olsen, Thora Petursdottir :
    ARV
    Utstilling Sortland 2020
  • Thora Petursdottir :
    Collaborative, Public, Participatory: Pros and Cons of an Open Archaeology
    Norwegian Archaeological Review 2020 DOI
  • Thora Petursdottir :
    Anticipated futures? Knowing the heritage of drift matter
    International Journal of Heritage Studies (IJHS) 2020
  • Thora Petursdottir :
    In passing: Beilfäufigkeit at the verge of Anthropocene
    Cambridge Archaeological Journal 2020
  • Thora Petursdottir :
    Fragment to form
    2019
  • Thora Petursdottir :
    Writing things
    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
  • Thora Petursdottir, Bjørnar Julius Olsen :
    Tingenes verdi - museets arv
    Ottar 2019
  • Thora Petursdottir, Geneviève Godin :
    At the pace of things: archaeology in the Anthropocene
    2019
  • Thora Petursdottir, Bjørnar Julius Olsen :
    ARV/ERBE
    ARV/ERBE utstilt ved Humboldt University, Berlin 2019
  • Thora Petursdottir :
    Fra arkeologisk kulturarv til kulturarvsarkeologi
    2019
  • Þóra Pétursdóttir, Sørensen Tim Flohr :
    Indecent and Obscene? A view from a depraved ethics of the contemporary
    2018
  • Þóra Pétursdóttir :
    Things in passing
    2018
  • Þóra Pétursdóttir :
    On nearing and knowing drift matter
    2018
  • 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

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    Publikasjoner utenom 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.

    2008

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

    2009

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

    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.

     

     

    Papers:

    Given at international conferences* and other venues

    2016

    2015

    *For Love of Ruins: Aesthetics of Ruination and Heritage Value. Paper presented at the International Congress of Historical Sciences, August 23rd – 29th, Shangdong University, Jinan, China. Invited speaker.

    *‘Wrack Zone Archaeology: The Heritage of Stranded Things’. Paper presented at the Nordic TAG, April 16th-18th, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.

    ‘Heritage, Ruins and the Archaeology of the Recent Past’. Paper presented at University of Bergen/Bergen Museum research seminar series, February 13th, Bergen Museum, Bergen, Norway. Invited speaker.

    ‘Hlutir, menning, minjar: Hugleiðing um arfleifð’. Paper presented at University of Iceland research seminar series, November 14th, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland.

    2014

    * ‘Aesthetics of Ruination and Heritage Value’. Paper presented at the conference ‘MeaningfulDestruction, Contingent Preservation’, July 4th-5th, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany. Invited speaker.

    * ‘Archaeology and Memory’. Paper presented at Nordic TAG, April 22nd-26th, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.

    2013

    * ‘Approaching Modern Ruins: Photos, Memos and Ruin Memories’. Paper presented at the Society for Historical Archaeology (SHA) annual conference, January 9th-12th 2013, Leicester, UK.

    * ‘Aesthetizication and ruin porn? A reply to the critique of ruin photography’. Paper presented at the Nordic TAG conference, April 21st-24th 2013, Reykjavík, Iceland.

    * ‘Ruin/ruination: the aesthetics of heritage’. Paper presented at the conference ‘Lost in things: Questioning functions and meanings of the material world’, November 28th-29th, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

    2012

    ‘Concrete Matters: Modern ruins in Saga-land and the things called heritage’. Paper presented at Stanford Archaeology Center, March 8th, Stanford University, USA. 

    ‘(Presenting the past): photos, memos and ruin memories’. Paper presented at the 4th Ruin Memories workshop, September 27th-30th 2012, at Svanhovd environmental centre, Svanvik, Norway.

    ‘Fortíðarþrár og framtíðardraumar: Nýjar stefnur og straumar í fornleifafræði nútímans’. Paper presented at the 20th anniversary of the Icelandic Archaeologists' Association, October 6th 2012, National Museum of Iceland, Reykjavík.

    ‘Transcending the gap between mind and matter: current approaches to materiality (introduction)’. Paper presented at NAM (Norwegian Archaeologists' Annual Meeting), Nov. 1st-3rd, 2012, Oslo, Norway.

    2011

    ‘Stóriðja á Ströndum’. Paper presented at the Icelandic Association of Archaeologists meeting, Icelandic Cultural Heritage Management Office, March 10th 2011, Reykjavík, Iceland. 

    * ‘A sense of snow: Ruin Memories from the North Atlantic.’ Paper presented at the 11th Nordic TAG conference, April 26th-29th, at the Linnæus University, Kalmar, Sweden.

    * ‘Topographic – Photographic: Dialogues With the Recent Past.’ Paper presented at the TAG conference, May 6th-8th, at Berkeley University, California USA. 

    ‘Objects on the move and moments of intervention: A glimpse of the summer's excavations at Eyri, Iceland’. Paper presented at the 3rd Ruin Memories workshop, November, 17th-19th, Falmouth, UK.

    ‘Af öskuhaugum fullveldis’. Paper presented at AkureyrarAkademian, Dec. 1st, Akureyri, Iceland.

    * ‘Behind my back: Abandonment, object narratives and moments of intervention’. Paper presented at the TAG Conference, December 14th-16th, Birmingham, UK.

    2010

    * ‘Industrial ruins and pristine landscapes: An archaeological approach to the modernization of Iceland.’ Paper presented at the TAT 2010 conference, May 10th-12th, at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. 

    ‘Industrial ruins in pristine landscapes: An archaeological glimpse at the 20th C herring industry in Iceland.’ Paper presented at the Research seminar, November 5th 2010, University of Tromsø, Norway.

    * ‘Industrial Ruins in Pristine Landscapes.’ Paper presented at the CHAT 2010 conference, November 12th-14th, University of Aberdeen, Scotland.

    ‘Industrial ruins in pristine landscapes: An archaeological approach to the modernization of Iceland.’ Paper presented at the 2nd Ruin Memories workshop, November 19th-20th 2010, Reykjavík, Iceland.

    2009

    ‘Fornleifarannsóknir í Þingeyjarsýslu.’ Paper presented on March 23rd 2009 for the Þingeyjarsýsla Archaeological Assosiation (Hið þingeyska fornleifafélag) in Húsavík Museum. 

    * ‘Re-membering performance: Material memories among pre-Christian graves in Iceland.’ Paper presented at the 10th Nordic TAG Conference, May 26th-29th 2009 in Stiklestad, Trondheim.

    2008

    ‘Deyr fé, deyja frændr: Má lesa eitthvað úr kumlum um hugar- og menningarheim landnámsmanna?’ Paper presented on March 15th 2008 at the Amtmannssetur Culture house in Möðruvellir.

    ‘Upplýsingagildi kumla: Hvað segja kumlin okkur um menningarheim

    landnámsmanna?’ Paper presented on July 2nd 2008 for the Þingeyjarsýsla Archaeological Assosiation (Hið þingeyska fornleifafélag) in Húsavík Museum.

     


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