Time horizon: intersections of deep time and biographical time on the West Shore, Stromness, Orkney

Richard D. G. Irvine; Niamh Downing; Anne Bevan; Carina Fearnley

doi:10.1080/2373566X.2021.1910534

Time horizon: intersections of deep time and biographical time on the West Shore, Stromness, Orkney

Richard D. G. Irvine, Niamh Downing, Anne Bevan, Carina Fearnley

Social Anthropology

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What is the significance of a human life in relation to the timespan of the geological processes that shape and reshape the terrain under our feet? Here, we ask how we might think on a planetary scale while being grounded in the everyday, tracing the relationship between biographical time and geological formation. Examining social relationships through the materiality of sandstone, uranium, and concrete, this paper presents a collaborative deep time practice, realised through the iterative process of walking, reading and inscribing a specific site, the West Shore of Stromness, Orkney.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	584-604
Number of pages	22
Journal	GeoHumanities
Volume	7
Issue number	2
Early online date	21 Jun 2021
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/2373566X.2021.1910534
Publication status	Published - 2021

Keywords

Coast
Temporality
Geology
Sratigraphy
Anthropocene

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