TY - JOUR
T1 - The North Dakota Man Camp Project
T2 - The Archaeology of Home in the Bakken Oil Fields
AU - Caraher, William R.
AU - Weber, Bret
AU - Kourelis, Kostis
AU - Rothaus, Richard
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017, Society for Historical Archaeology.
PY - 2017/6/1
Y1 - 2017/6/1
N2 - Over the past three years (2012–2015), the North Dakota Man Camp Project has documented the archaeology of home in over 50 contemporary, short-term, workforce-housing sites in the Bakken oil patch in western North Dakota. This article integrates recent scholarship in global urbanism, archaeology of the contemporary past, and domesticity to argue that the expansion of temporary-workforce housing in the Bakken reflects a global periphery that lacks infrastructure or capital to respond rapidly to the pressures of an increasingly fluid movement of global capital and labor. The position of the Bakken produced short-term housing strategies that embrace both traditions of American domesticity and global trends in informal urbanism. A series of practical acts of architectural intervention straddle the line between the ideals of fixity characteristic of the American suburb and the mobility of recreational vehicles. The archaeological and architectural analysis of the Bakken man camps documents new forms of informal housing and offers a glimpse of the city yet to come.
AB - Over the past three years (2012–2015), the North Dakota Man Camp Project has documented the archaeology of home in over 50 contemporary, short-term, workforce-housing sites in the Bakken oil patch in western North Dakota. This article integrates recent scholarship in global urbanism, archaeology of the contemporary past, and domesticity to argue that the expansion of temporary-workforce housing in the Bakken reflects a global periphery that lacks infrastructure or capital to respond rapidly to the pressures of an increasingly fluid movement of global capital and labor. The position of the Bakken produced short-term housing strategies that embrace both traditions of American domesticity and global trends in informal urbanism. A series of practical acts of architectural intervention straddle the line between the ideals of fixity characteristic of the American suburb and the mobility of recreational vehicles. The archaeological and architectural analysis of the Bakken man camps documents new forms of informal housing and offers a glimpse of the city yet to come.
KW - North American archaeology
KW - North Dakota
KW - archaeology of the contemporary world
KW - camps
KW - extractive industries
KW - oil
KW - temporary settlement
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85044571375&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s41636-017-0020-8
DO - 10.1007/s41636-017-0020-8
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85044571375
VL - 51
SP - 267
EP - 287
JO - Historical Archaeology
JF - Historical Archaeology
SN - 0440-9213
IS - 2
ER -