Rachel King (rachel.king@bsky)
@rachelsusanking
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Assoc Prof of Cultural Heritage @UCLarchaeology | 🇱🇸🏔🇿🇦, infrastructure, disorder, development | researching polluter-pays | she, her
London, England
Joined January 2013
🚨 PUB DAY FOR THIS BEAUTY! #OpenAccess download here: And a 🧵about why we thought this book should exist, and the many brilliant people who made it possible 1/7
Beyond thrilled that our textbook Methods and Methodologies in Heritage Studies will be out this summer with @UCLpress #OpenAccess. It's been a joy and a revelation to work on this with the incomparable Trini Rico.
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I'm genuinely surprised that 'cultural heritage' is on this list, when it can (and does) lend itself so easily to white nationalism
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
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🗣️Free downloads of my book until 12 February!
Don’t miss your chance to read new Cambridge Element The Neoliberalisation of Heritage in Africa by @rachelsusanking Free access available until 12 February. #cambridgeelements #archaeology
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RT @M_Andrews91: Hot off the press in Open Access! Find out what we uncovered during last summer's @UCLarchaeology field school - Roman vil…
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RT @CambUP_Archaeo: New Cambridge Element The Neoliberalisation of Heritage in Africa by @rachelsusanking is now free to read for 4 weeks!…
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The book is mainly for heritage people but a takeaway for everyone: heritage isn't exempt from the same neoliberalising trends that affect lots of other markets and commodities; it just organises value in distinct ways, which are subject to historical enquiry /end
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🇿🇦 For colleagues and researchers in #SouthAfrica, is there any research or reporting evaluating government bodies' compliance with #PAIA since the act was passed? I'm interested specifically in responses to the act rather than general transparency stats. Thanks in advance!
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Awesome human, awesome book 🎉
The School was delighted to learn that Dr Jonathan Gardner has won London Archaeological Book Prize! Congratulations Jonathan! Find out more: #Archaeology #History #London #Bookprize #Edinburgh #Monday @EdinArch
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@LesothoJohn Fun related fact: a sauropodomorph skeleton found near Maphutseng in the 1950s was only recently christened Kholumolumo ellenbergorum, which is one of my favourite vertebrate palaeontology names of all time :)
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I have to chase up an archival reference (from the late 1950s) to the Rhodesian Sweepstakes but I really don't want to google this ...
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@mininghistory @LesothoJohn Ah that's an excellent explanation! Nothing gazetted specifically for the Union alongside the Basutoland proclamation but since I'm not making an exhaustive search it could be elsewhere
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🚨Out today from my PhD student Elias Michaut, for those interested in criminalisation, carcerality, and class in the recent past Deaths at the heart of the state: incarcerating working-class youth at Ferme Neuve of Les Douaires, France
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Later I'll distil some thoughts about this report but what jumps out at me now is that 1) well-being and non-market price related benefits are excluded because the methodology can't account for these and 2) I want to know more about which heritage jobs are 'skilled' (per SOC)
New @DCMS research report published – a feasibility study of different approaches that could be used to produce a single reliable estimate of the economic contribution of heritage organisations to the UK economy. Read it here:
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@MatthewPope I was just shouting this exact phrase so apologies in advance for emails from me with missing/blocked attachments 🥴
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