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Caitlin DeSilvey
Researcher at University of Exeter
Publications - 33
Citations - 1463
Caitlin DeSilvey is an academic researcher from University of Exeter. The author has contributed to research in topics: Futures contract & Cultural heritage. The author has an hindex of 14, co-authored 31 publications receiving 1254 citations. Previous affiliations of Caitlin DeSilvey include Open University.
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Observed Decay: Telling Stories with Mutable Things
TL;DR: In this article, the authors track the entanglement of cultural and natural histories through the residual material culture of a derelict homestead in Montana, and suggest that deposits of degraded material, though inappropriate for recovery in conventional conservation strategies, may be understood through the application of a collaborative interpretive ethic, allowing other-than-human agencies to participate in the telling of stories about particular places.
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Reckoning with ruins
Caitlin DeSilvey,Tim Edensor +1 more
TL;DR: The authors assess a broad selection of the resulting literature and identify several key themes, such as how ruins may be used to critically examine capitalist and state manifestations of power, the way in which ruins may challenge dominant ways of relating to the past, and how they may complicate strategies for practically and ontologically ordering space.
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Making sense of transience: an anticipatory history:
TL;DR: In climate change discourse, the concept of anticipatory adaptation has emerged to refer to proactive strategies for preparing communities for future change as mentioned in this paper, where the authors make a proposal for what mig...
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Spatial Covariance between Aesthetic Value & Other Ecosystem Services
TL;DR: This work proposes an innovative approach for evaluating a cultural service, the perceived aesthetic value of ecosystems, by quantifying geo-tagged digital photographs uploaded to social media resources, and suggests that online geo- tagged images provide an effective metric for mapping a key component of cultural ecosystem services.
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Salvage memory: constellating material histories on a hardscrabble homestead
TL;DR: In this paper, a process of recollection that moves associatively among the discarded material remains of a Montana homestead is explored, in an attempted recuperation of obsolete networks of use and affinity.