Thora Petursdottir

• Aceves, Judith M. López; Molloy, Brodhie M.I.; Graham, Jonathon; Eriksen, Marianne Hem; Mol, Eva & Petursdottir, Thora [Vis alle 10 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2026). These Words Are My Own: Archaeological Theory in Dialect. Cambridge Archaeological Journal. ISSN 0959-7743. 36(1), s. 135–150. doi: 10.1017/s0959774325100243. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  English is the lingua franca not only for academia but also for almost all international infrastructures and global communications. It comes as no surprise, then, that the dominant and assumed normative voice in archaeology is standard British English (SBE) for narratives of various times and places. This language is ‘majoritarian’—by this we do not mean that it is spoken by most of humanity, but that it is the imposed ‘ideal’ others are measured against, and that is an issue. Categories, terms and ways of interpretation are all done from a privileged majoritarian position. These do not translate and are certainly not applicable in all the different places where archaeology takes place. This paper is the culmination of conversations that occurred during a Theoretical Archaeology Group conference session in 2023, with contributing authors having adapted their talks into a discussion format to keep the conversation on challenging language representation active within the discipline.

• Sørensen, Tim Flohr & Petursdottir, Thora (2025). In Nude, without Archive: Recollecting Traces of Holmegaard Glassworks, Objects in the Archives. Modern Material Culture and Heritage in the North. Routledge. ISSN 9781003350293. s. 144–164. doi: 10.4324/9781003350293-14. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Between 2016 and 2019, we visited Holmegaard Glassworks, Denmark, at a time when the factory was discontinued as an active glassworks and before it was converted into a culture-historical museum. In this chapter, we recollect our encounters with things in the former glassworks through our photographic archives, revisiting shared as well as individual experiences. Our exchange of images, depicting things encountered years ago, has led us to discuss the recent favouring of the ‘force’, ‘vitality’ and ‘agency’ of objects as the exclusive focus of New Materialisms and related agendas. Complementing these studies, we explore an attitude to things that does not aim in one direction exclusively, and we ask instead how we begin noticing things in the first place, including things that are not privileged with taking effect or being vibrant, things that pass into oblivion only to be recollected incidentally. Although notions of ‘agency’ and the ‘force’ of things are necessary object-orientations, we argue these concerns must be supplemented by an attentiveness to idle things that only show themselves in passing or that are sustainable by enduring in the realm of the insignificant and the traceless.

• Petursdottir, Thora (2025). Postscript Reflections: Archaeological Imaginations – Unruly Heritage Lessons for the Anthropocene. I Olsen, Bjørnar Julius; Farstadvoll, Stein & Godin, Geneviève (Red.), Unruly Heritage: Archaeologies of the Anthropocene. Bloomsbury Academic. ISSN 9781350426368. s. 261–272. doi: 10.5040/9781350426399.0007. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Heritage is almost univocally conceived of as valuable and good, something we care for and preserve for ourselves and future generations. Although traditionally associated with the unique and monumental, heritage has over the last decades been broadened in response to claims to incorporate more diverse and globally representative legacies. While such claims are of course welcome, they do not embrace the bulging unruly and obnoxious legacies that now haunt us; legacies that have become so conspicuously manifest that they are claimed as diagnostic of a new epoch, the Anthropocene. This book targets this exclusion. It claims that the current 'clash' between prevailing conceptions of heritage as something confined, wished for and thus worth saving, and the unruly legacies ignoring such work of purification, urges a reconsideration of strategies and rationales for how to 'deal with' heritage. Through multidisciplinary approaches, ranging from archaeology and heritage studies to philosophy and environmental politics, the contributions bring heritage into dialogue with a wide range of topics including industrialisation, material profusion, modernist architectural material, coastal reclamations, barbed wire, and naval mines. The result is a volume that profoundly challenges traditional understandings of heritage as an exclusive reserve of things selected and managed by us.

• Petursdottir, Thora; Godin, Geneviève; Praet, Estelle & Schofield, John (2024). Archaeology and Plastics: An Introduction. I Petursdottir, Thora; Godin, Geneviève; Praet, Estelle & Schofield, John (Red.), Routledge Handbook of Archaeology and Plastics. Routledge. ISSN 9781032223728. s. 1–24. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Petursdottir, Thora & Sørensen, Tim Flohr (2023). Archaeological encounters: Ethics and aesthetics under the mark of the Anthropocene. Archaeological Dialogues. ISSN 1380-2038. 30(1), s. 50–67. doi: 10.1017/S1380203823000028. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Abstract What legitimizes archaeological work in an age of global climate change, socio-political crises and economic recession? On what topics should archaeology focus its research questions, and what forms of archaeological engagement are not merely justifiable but able to make a difference in light of such challenges? Today, there is a tendency, we argue, that archaeological responses to current challenges are expected to align with a specific mode of conduct, political stance and genre, where, for example, a very particular notion of activism, responsibility and ethics is dominating. There is no denial that current challenges call for immediate instrumental reactions, but we contend that valuable reactions can – or even must – vary, and that more fundamental and slow ontological and epistemological change should also be nested within these responses. In this article, we explore what it means to care – what it means to be concerned – in the Anthropocene through archaeological practice and aesthetic engagement. By highlighting the relations between ethics and aesthetics, we explore ways in which we get in touch with the objects of concern, placing undecidability and speculation as dispositions equally important to urgency and impact.

• Olsen, Bjørnar Julius & Petursdottir, Thora (2021). Writing Things After Discourse. I Olsen, Bjørnar Julius; Burström, Mats; DeSilvey, Caitlin & Petursdottir, Thora (Red.), After Discourse: Things, Affects, Ethics. Routledge. ISSN 9780367190484. s. 23–41. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  After Discourse is an interdisciplinary response to the recent trend away from linguistic and textual approaches and towards things and their affects. The new millennium brought about serious changes to the intellectual landscape. Favoured approaches associated with the linguistic and the textual turn lost some of their currency, and were followed by a new curiosity and concern for things and their natures. Gathering contributions from archaeology, heritage studies, history, geography, literature and philosophy, After Discourse offers a range of reflections on what things are, how we become affected by them, and the ethical concerns they give rise to. Through a varied constellation of case studies, it explores ways of dealing with matters which fall outside, become othered from, or simply cannot be grasped through perspectives derived solely from language and discourse. After Discourse provides challenging new perspectives for scholars and students interested in other-than-textual encounters between people and the objects with which we share the world.

• Olsen, Bjørnar Julius; Burström, Mats; DeSilvey, Caitlin & Petursdottir, Thora (2021). After Discourse: An Introduction. I Olsen, Bjørnar Julius; Burström, Mats; DeSilvey, Caitlin & Petursdottir, Thora (Red.), After Discourse: Things, Affects, Ethics. Routledge. ISSN 9780367190484. s. 1–17. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  After Discourse is an interdisciplinary response to the recent trend away from linguistic and textual approaches and towards things and their affects. The new millennium brought about serious changes to the intellectual landscape. Favoured approaches associated with the linguistic and the textual turn lost some of their currency, and were followed by a new curiosity and concern for things and their natures. Gathering contributions from archaeology, heritage studies, history, geography, literature and philosophy, After Discourse offers a range of reflections on what things are, how we become affected by them, and the ethical concerns they give rise to. Through a varied constellation of case studies, it explores ways of dealing with matters which fall outside, become othered from, or simply cannot be grasped through perspectives derived solely from language and discourse. After Discourse provides challenging new perspectives for scholars and students interested in other-than-textual encounters between people and the objects with which we share the world.

• Bangstad, Torgeir Rinke & Petursdottir, Thora (2021). An Ecological Approach to Heritage. I Bangstad, Torgeir Rinke & Petursdottir, Thora (Red.), Heritage Ecologies. Routledge. ISSN 9781138294608. s. 1–26. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Petursdottir, Thora & Olsen, Bjørnar Julius (2020). Modern Ruins: Remembrance, Resistance, and Ruin Value. I Smith, Claire M (Red.), Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology/Springer Verlag. ISSN 9783030300166. s. 7304–7315. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Petursdottir, Thora (2020). Anticipated futures? Knowing the heritage of drift matter. International Journal of Heritage Studies (IJHS). ISSN 1352-7258. 26(1), s. 87–103. doi: 10.1080/13527258.2019.1620835. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  What might heritage in and of the Anthropocene look like? This article ponders this question by drawing on archaeological encounters with assemblages of drift matter (seaborne debris) in Norway and Iceland. Here, drift matter manifests evidence of both the relentlessly amassing material heritage of the Anthropocene and deep legacies of local engagement with this fluctuating resource. The tensions evoked along these coastlines therefore invite explorations of some of the challenges met in the current climate, problematizing conceptions of heritage and waste, wanteds and unwanteds, salvation and loss. Surely, drift matter is today largely perceived as not belonging in these natural environs. However, are there other thing lessons to be learned from taking seriously this heritage? Avoiding an interpretation of these things as out of context and a focus merely on what has been lost, this article asks whether it is possible that the sense of ambiguity, flux and drift emitted by this material may not only challenge but also enable alternative possibilities of knowing things – alternatives that may be of significance for a heritage in and of the Anthropocene.

• Petursdottir, Thora (2020). In Passing: Beiläufigkeit at the Verge of Anthropocene. Cambridge Archaeological Journal. ISSN 0959-7743. 30(1), s. 164–168. doi: 10.1017/S0959774319000544. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Pétursdóttir, Þóra (2018). Lyrics for a duskier enlightenment. in response to Alexandra Ion. Archaeological Dialogues. ISSN 1380-2038. 25(2), s. 205–213. doi: 10.1017/S138020381800020X. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Pétursdóttir, Þóra (2018). Drift. I Birch, Suzanne Pilaar (Red.), Multispecies Archaeology. Routledge. ISSN 9781138898981. s. 85–101. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Pétursdóttir, Þóra (2018). Gengið á reka: fornleifafræði mannaldar. Árbók hins Íslenzka fornleifafélags. ISSN 0256-8462. s. 7–36. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Pétursdóttir, Þóra (2017). Climate Change: Archaeology and Anthropocene. Archaeological Dialogues. ISSN 1380-2038. 24(2), s. 175–205. doi: 10.1017/S1380203817000216. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Pétursdóttir, Þóra & Olsen, Bjørnar Julius (2017). Theory Adrift: The Matter of Archaeological Theorizing. Journal of Social Archaeology. ISSN 1469-6053. 18(1), s. 97–117. doi: 10.1177/1469605317737426. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  At a possible transition towards a ‘flat’, post-human or new-materialist environment, many have suggested that archaeological theory and theorizing is changing course; turning to metaphysics; leaning towards the sciences; or, even is declared dead. Resonating with these concerns, and drawing on our fieldwork on a northern driftwood beach, this article suggests the need to rethink fundamental notions of what theory is – its morphological being – and how it behaves and takes form. Like drift matter on an Arctic shore, theories are adrift. They are not natives of any particular territory, but nomads in a mixed world. While they are themselves of certain weight and figure, it matters what things they bump into, become entangled with, and moved by. Based on this, we argue that theories come unfinished and fragile. Much like things stranding on a beach they don’t simply ‘add up’ but can become detached, fragmented, turned and transfigured. Rather than seeing this drift as rendering them redundant and out of place, it is this nomadism and ‘weakness’ that sustains them and keeps them alive.

• Olsen, Bjørnar Julius & Pétursdóttir, Þóra (2017). Sværholt: Poetics of Memory. I Kaila, J & Knuutila, J (Red.), Inside and Beside the Camp. The Academy of Fine Arts. ISSN 9789527131367. s. 88–95. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Olsen, Bjørnar Julius & Pétursdóttir, Þóra (2016). Unruly Heritage: Tracing Legacies in the Anthropocene. Arkæologisk Forum. ISSN 1399-5545. 35, s. 38–45. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Pétursdóttir, Þóra (2016). For love of ruins. I Mikkel, Bille & Flohr, Sørensen Tim (Red.), Elements of Architecture: Assembling archaeology, atmosphere and the performance of building spaces. Routledge. ISSN 9781138775411. s. 365–386. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Pétursdóttir, Þóra (2016). 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. ISSN 2051-3429. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Pétursdóttir, Þóra (2015). Sharing ground. Current Swedish Archaeology. ISSN 1102-7355. 23, s. 67–71. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Pétursdóttir, Þóra (2015). Die Sorge für Verfallendes: Theoretisierung von materiellem Kulturerbe. I Stockhammer, Philipp W. & Hahn, Hans Peter (Red.), Lost in Things - Fragen an die Welt des Materiellen. Waxmann Verlag. ISSN 9783830931751. s. 105–127. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Pétursdóttir, Þóra (2014). Things out-of-hand: the aesthetics of abandonment. I Olsen, Bjørnar Julius & Pétursdóttir, Þóra (Red.), Ruin Memories: Materialities, Aesthetics and the Archaeology of the Recent Past. Routledge. ISSN 9780415523622. s. 335–364. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Pétursdóttir, Þóra & Olsen, Bjørnar Julius (2014). Modern Ruins: Remembrance, Resistance, and Ruin Value. I Smith, Claire M (Red.), Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer. ISSN 9781441904669. s. 4983–4994. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-51726-1_1055-2. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Pétursdóttir, Þóra & Olsen, Bjørnar Julius (2014). An archaeology of ruins. I Olsen, Bjørnar Julius & Pétursdóttir, Þóra (Red.), Ruin Memories: Materialities, Aesthetics and the Archaeology of the Recent Past. Routledge. ISSN 9780415523622. s. 3–29. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Grabowski, Radoslaw; Olsen, Bjørnar Julius; Pétursdóttir, Þóra & Witmore, Christopher (2014). Teillager 6 Sværholt: The archaeology of a World War II prisoner of war camp in Finnmark, arctic Norway. Fennoscandia Archaeologica. ISSN 0781-7126. XXXI, s. 3–24. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Pétursdóttir, Þóra (2013). Concrete matters: Ruins of modernity and the things called heritage. Journal of Social Archaeology. ISSN 1469-6053. 13(1), s. 31–53. doi: 10.1177/1469605312456342. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Pétursdóttir, Þóra (2012). Fé og frændur í eina gröf: Hugleiðingar um kuml og greftrun í íslensku samhengi. Ólafía. Rit fornleifafræðingafélags Íslands. ISSN 1670-6498. s. 139–162. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Pétursdóttir, Þóra (2012). Small Things Forgotten Now Included, or What Else Do Things Deserve? International Journal of Historical Archaeology. ISSN 1092-7697. 16(3), s. 577–603. doi: 10.1007/s10761-012-0191-0. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Pétursdóttir, Þóra (2011). Kuml. I Lárusdóttir, Birna (Red.), Mannvist: Sýnisbók íslenskra fornleifa. Opna. ISSN 9789935100450. s. 54–71. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Pétursdóttir, Þóra (2011). Nýminjar: (Forn)leifar og (forn)leifafræði. I Lárusdóttir, Birna (Red.), Mannvist: Sýnisbók íslenskra fornleifa. Opna. ISSN 9789935100450. s. 424–433. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Pétursdóttir, Þóra (2011). Orð í belg um íslenska kumlhestinn og uppruna hans. Árbók hins Íslenzka fornleifafélags. ISSN 0256-8462. s. 185–208. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Pétursdóttir, Þóra (2011). Grafist fyrir um mannvirkin í Arnarbæli við Selfljót: Af niðurstöðum rannsókna haustið 2010. Múlaþing. ISSN 1022-5021. 37, s. 34–43. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Pétursdóttir, Þóra & Hermannsdóttir, Ásta (2011). Fornleifaskráning á Öxi. Múlaþing. ISSN 1022-5021. 37, s. 126–135. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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• Petursdottir, Thora; Godin, Geneviève; Praet, Estelle & Schofield, John (2024). Routledge Handbook of Archaeology and Plastics. Routledge. ISBN 9781032223728. 605 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bjerck, Hein Bjartmann; Burström, Mats; Petursdottir, Thora & Svestad, Asgeir (2023). For Love of Archaeology. To Bjørnar J. Olsen from friends and colleagues. Tromsø Museum Skrifter. ISBN 9788271423001. 249 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Olsen, Bjørnar Julius; Burström, Mats; DeSilvey, Caitlin & Petursdottir, Thora (2021). After Discourse: Things, Affects, Ethics. Routledge. ISBN 9780367190484. 322 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  After Discourse is an interdisciplinary response to the recent trend away from linguistic and textual approaches and towards things and their affects. The new millennium brought about serious changes to the intellectual landscape. Favoured approaches associated with the linguistic and the textual turn lost some of their currency, and were followed by a new curiosity and concern for things and their natures. Gathering contributions from archaeology, heritage studies, history, geography, literature and philosophy, After Discourse offers a range of reflections on what things are, how we become affected by them, and the ethical concerns they give rise to. Through a varied constellation of case studies, it explores ways of dealing with matters which fall outside, become othered from, or simply cannot be grasped through perspectives derived solely from language and discourse. After Discourse provides challenging new perspectives for scholars and students interested in other-than-textual encounters between people and the objects with which we share the world.

• Bangstad, Torgeir Rinke & Petursdottir, Thora (2021). Heritage Ecologies. Routledge. ISBN 9781138294608. 426 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bangstad, Torgeir Rinke & Petursdottir, Thora (2021). Heritage Ecologies. Routledge. ISBN 9781138294608. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Olsen, Bjørnar Julius & Pétursdóttir, Þóra (2014). Ruin Memories: Materialities, Aesthetics and the Archaeology of the Recent Past. Routledge. ISBN 9780415523622. 492 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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• Burlingame, Katherine; Petursdottir, Thora & Holmgaard, Sanne Bech (2024). Relics of climate change: Icy futures in a melting world. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Petursdottir, Thora (2024). Nature as Heritage in the Anthropocene. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Petursdottir, Thora (2023). Drift. I Rich, Sara & Campbell, Peter (Red.), Contemporary Philosophy for Maritime Archaeology: Flat Ontologies, Oceanic Thought, and the Anthropocene. Sidestone Press. ISSN 9789464270402. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Petursdottir, Thora (2023). Bautasteinar í upplýsingasamfélagi: hugleiðing um mikilvægi nýminja. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Petursdottir, Thora (2023). The Gender of Theory in Archaeology. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bjerck, Hein Bjartmann; Burström, Mats; Petursdottir, Thora & Svestad, Asgeir (2023). For Love of Archaeology. I Bjerck, Hein Bjartmann; Burström, Mats; Petursdottir, Thora & Svestad, Asgeir (Red.), For Love of Archaeology. To Bjørnar J. Olsen from friends and colleagues.. Tromsø Museum Skrifter. ISSN 9788271423001. s. 1–22. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Petursdottir, Thora (2022). What’s the use of theory? Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Petursdottir, Thora (2022). Sustainable Uncertainty: Heritage, nature and change. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Petursdottir, Thora (2022). Opið bréf til ráðherra, Lilju Daggar Alfreðsdóttur, varðandi ráðningu þjóðminjavarðar. Frettabladid. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Petursdottir, Thora; Axelsen, Irmelin; Østmo, Mari Arentz; Nielsen, Svein Vatsvåg & Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2022). What’s the use of theory, anyway? Arkæologisk Forum. ISSN 1399-5545. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Petursdottir, Thora (2022). Samtidsarkeologi: et paradoks? Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift (NNT). ISSN 0800-336X. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Axelsen, Irmelin; Austvoll, Knut Ivar; Nielsen, Svein Vatsvåg; Petursdottir, Thora & Østmo, Mari Arentz (2021). What's the use of theory, anyway? 45, s. 26–29. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The need for a joint Nordic platform for archaeological theory has recently been reflected upon on the pages of this journal. Is there a need for a Nordic TAG? Are there issues that pertain to a particularly Nordic theoretical debate? And if so, why is it that this seemingly ideal venue tends towards hibernation every now and then? These questions will be discussed here, though not fully answered. Most importantly, however, with this short comment we are happy to inform you that the Nordic TAG will be returning this coming spring. Hosted jointly by the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History and the Museum of Cultural History, both part of the University of Oslo, the aim is set for lively conversations and constructive arguments in late April 2022. We hope to see you there!

• Petursdottir, Thora; Riede, Felix & Fredriksen, Per Ditlef (2021). Welcome to the New Environmental Archaeologies seminar series. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bangstad, Torgeir Rinke & Petursdottir, Thora (2021). An Ecological Approach to Heritage. I Bangstad, Torgeir Rinke & Petursdottir, Thora (Red.), Heritage Ecologies. Routledge. ISSN 9781138294608. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Petursdottir, Thora (2021). Ecotone. I Bangstad, Torgeir Rinke & Petursdottir, Thora (Red.), Heritage Ecologies. Routledge. ISSN 9781138294608. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Olsen, Bjørnar Julius & Petursdottir, Thora (2020). ARV. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Olsen, Bjørnar Julius & Petursdottir, Thora (2020). ARV. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Petursdottir, Thora (2020). Collaborative, Public, Participatory: Pros and Cons of an Open Archaeology. Norwegian Archaeological Review. ISSN 0029-3652. 53(1), s. 1–4. doi: 10.1080/00293652.2020.1782463. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Petursdottir, Thora (2020). In passing: Beilfäufigkeit at the verge of Anthropocene. Cambridge Archaeological Journal. ISSN 0959-7743. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Petursdottir, Thora (2020). Anticipated futures? Knowing the heritage of drift matter. International Journal of Heritage Studies (IJHS). ISSN 1352-7258. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Petursdottir, Thora & Olsen, Bjørnar Julius (2019). Tingenes verdi - museets arv. Ottar. ISSN 0030-6703. 65(2), s. 31–40. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Petursdottir, Thora & Godin, Geneviève (2019). At the pace of things: archaeology in the Anthropocene. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Petursdottir, Thora & Olsen, Bjørnar Julius (2019). ARV/ERBE. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Petursdottir, Thora (2019). Fragment to form. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Petursdottir, Thora (2019). Fra arkeologisk kulturarv til kulturarvsarkeologi. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Petursdottir, Thora (2019). Writing things. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Pétursdóttir, Þóra & Flohr, Sørensen Tim (2018). Indecent and Obscene? A view from a depraved ethics of the contemporary. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Pétursdóttir, Þóra (2018). Things in passing. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Pétursdóttir, Þóra (2018). On nearing and knowing drift matter. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Olsen, Bjørnar Julius; Nango, Joar & Pétursdóttir, Þóra (2018). ARV. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Olsen, Bjørnar Julius & Pétursdóttir, Þóra (2018). Søppel eller kulturarv? Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Kramvig, Britt; Huse, Tone; Verran, Helen Ruth & Pétursdóttir, Þóra (2016). How and why do objects come to matter in the Arctic? Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Pétursdóttir, Þóra (2016). Archaeology of Drift Matter: Driftwood and the Movement of Things Around People. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Pétursdóttir, Þóra (2016). 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. 11. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Pétursdóttir, Þóra (2016). Strange and Estranged: On bringing Things Close. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Pétursdóttir, Þóra; Huse, Tone & Kramvig, Britt (2016). How and why do objects come to matter in the Arctic? Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Pétursdóttir, Þóra (2016). Drift. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Pétursdóttir, Þóra (2016). Arriving at the Past: Challenges in Archaeological Reasoning. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Pétursdóttir, Þóra & Sørensen, Tim Flohr (2016). On the Trace: An Introduction. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Pétursdóttir, Þóra (2016). After Discourse: Archaeology and Anthropocene. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Pétursdóttir, Þóra (2016). Radical Ontologies? Archaeology in the Age of the Anthropocene. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Pétursdóttir, Þóra (2015). Heritage, Ruins and the Archaeology of the Recent Past. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Pétursdóttir, Þóra (2015). Wrack Zone Archaeology: The Heritage of Stranded Things. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Pétursdóttir, Þóra (2015). For Love of Ruins: Aesthetics of Ruination and Heritage Value. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Pétursdóttir, Þóra (2014). Hlutir, menning, minjar: Hugleiðing um arfleifð. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Petursdottir, Thora (2013). Approaching Modern Ruins: Photos, Memos and Ruin Memories. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Petursdottir, Thora (2013). Ruin/ruination: the aesthetics of heritage. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Petursdottir, Thora (2013). Aesthetizication and ruin porn? A reply to the critique of ruin photography. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Pétursdóttir, Þóra (2012). Concrete Matters: Modern ruins in Saga-land and the things called heritage. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Pétursdóttir, Þóra (2011). Behind my back: Abandonment, object narratives and moments of intervention. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Pétursdóttir, Þóra (2011). A sense of snow: Ruin memories from the North Atlantic. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Pétursdóttir, Þóra (2011). Stóriðja á Ströndum. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Pétursdóttir, Þóra (2011). Topographic - Photographic: Dialogues with the recent past. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Pétursdóttir, Þóra (2011). Af öskuhaugum fullveldis. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Pétursdóttir, Þóra (2011). Endurfundir: Fornleifarannsóknir styrktar af Kristnihátíðarsjóði 2001-2005. Árbók hins Íslenzka fornleifafélags. ISSN 0256-8462. s. 227–232. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Pétursdóttir, Þóra (2011). "Innviðir" - enn af dreggjum dagsins. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Petursdottir, Thora (2020). Hernámið frá sjónarhóli fornleifafræðinnar: fornleifarannsókn á minjum úr síðari heimsstyrjöld á Skálum á Langanesi. Fornleifastofnun Íslands. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Farstadvoll, Stein; Olsen, Bjørnar Julius & Petursdottir, Thora (2019). A speculative archaeology of excess: Exploring the afterlife of a derelict landscape garden. UiT Norges arktiske universitet. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This dissertation explores the contemporary archaeological record of Retiro, a derelict 19th-century landscape garden and summer estate located in the town of Molde on the north-western coast of Norway. The main topic that this thesis investigates is the consequences of acknowledging Retiro with its excess of unruly and apparently ruinous characteristics, as heritage. This involves focusing on the concrete characteristics of Retiro’s contemporary environment, from the garbage littering the forest floor to the plants that cover its undulating topography. An underlying motivation for this inquiry is to investigate an alternative, or more precisely, oblique way to approach and describe Retiro. This investigation is not founded on the ambition of improving conventional historical research or cultural heritage management, but instead explore a way of observing and including things that are usually overlooked in these ways of representing and handling the material past in the present. Thus, the goal is not to be reductive and instead focusing on expanding horizons based on on-site surveys. To do this the research relies on empirical observation and experience derived from repeated on-site surveys of Retiro. One of the central conclusions of the research is that concern for material heritage sites like Retiro, through oblique and inclusive approaches, can be a foundation for an environmentally oriented archaeology of the contemporary world. This is by no means a revolutionary or radically new assertion, as archaeology has always in some form dealt with the environment; i.e. things that are not human or outside our control. Nevertheless, my hope is to demonstrate how archaeology can contribute to unique ways of describing a contemporary environment, on track with how other academic disciplines have contributed to the development of ecological and environmental studies in the humanities and social sciences. To achieve this, it is necessary to include the apparently natural and non-human aspects of heritage sites, and acknowledge that anthropogenic heritage is also partly constituted by – and exists in constant dialogue with – non-humans, like plants, fungi, and polypropylene. Our material legacies are not only inherited by humans, but also by non-humans. Importantly, a focus on these non-human aspects does not necessarily side-line human concerns. Rather, I argue, such focus serves to inform our understanding of how our heritage experience is formed and inform through the vibrant afterlife of the past.

• Petursdottir, Thora (2013). Concrete matters: towards an archaeology of things. UiT Norges arktiske universitet. ISSN 9788282441070. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Pétursdóttir, Þóra & Sigurgeirsson, Magnús (2011). Frumrannsókn menningarminja í Arnarbæli við Selfljót. Fornleifastofnun Íslands. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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