Roth, Matthew W. (Author)
IA. The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology
Volume: 26
Issue: 1
Pages: 71-84
An essay reflecting upon the future of the field of IA. Rather than risk the dubious exercise of prediction, I have taken the approach of asking how industrial archeology has benefited me as my research interests have moved beyond the locales that have defined the field up to now. I intend to sketch out the utility and the limitations of industrial archeology in comparison with some other approaches that have been used to interpret the fascinating city of Los Angeles. Los Angeles is a rich subject for these encounters because it has provided the empirical basis for many recent methodological and theoretical arguments. Industrial archeology has not only provided me with a vital means to study Los Angeles, but has also helped to establish a critical perspective toward other strategies of urban studies. I wonder, too, how industrial archeology might advance those other approaches, and I suspect that the further extension of the field into broader arenas of scholarship might well depend on such connections.
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