The Western Frontier of Britannia: An Assemblage?
Channel: Recording Archaeology
Date: 23/05/2019

By considering a frontier as an assemblage it is hoped that the unique character of a diffuse frontier such as the Western Frontier of Britannia might be explored. Assemblage theories foreground the deliberate act of bringing things, beings and entities together, thus stressing the agency involved in the process. Hamilakis (2013) has proposed that a fruitful way to conceptualize and deploy assemblage thinking will be to consider assemblages within a framework of sensoriality and affectivity. Can approaching complex frontiers as ‘sensorial assemblages’ (by exploring the multiplicity and heterogeneity, the affective or sensorial, the mnemonic and temporal, and the political), help to develop our  understanding of them?

Caroline Pudney (University of Chichester)

TAG Deva 2018
Session: (Not) the Final Frontier: Charting New Courses for Frontiers Theory