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Abstract
inhospitable. As it reaches a tipping point, global warming is initiating
cascades of ecological transformation, mass extinction, and irreversible
damage—all of them increasingly beyond human control. To mitigate this
situation,we need intellectual tools that can call on both the sciences and the
humanities and spark integrated approaches that address deep-time scales.
Archaeology can make a substantial contribution here. This article reviews
the merits and limitations of the resilience concept in archaeology. Despite
its ever-increasing relevance, resilience is still frequently understood within
the framework of positivist approaches and branches of systems thinking that
cannot capture our unfolding predicament and pay too little attention to the
embodied historical asymmetries between more-than-human social worlds.
This review identifies the potential for reformulations of resilience theory
and its attendant concepts within a less positivistic and human-centered conceptual register. New translations of resilience in archaeology pave the way
for more nuanced approaches to concepts of history and their sociopolitical
use, as well as alternative time dynamics of historical change.
Original language | English |
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Journal | Annual Review of Anthropology |
Volume | 51 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages (from-to) | 195-211 |
Number of pages | 17 |
ISSN | 0084-6570 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Oct 2022 |
Keywords
- adaptive capacity
- collapse
- disturbance ecology
- landesque capital
- niche construction theory
- panarchy
- resilience
- systems thinking
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ANTHEA: Anthropogenic Heathlands: The Social Organization of Super-Resilient Past Human Ecosystems
Løvschal, M. (PI), Ombashi, H. (Participant), Caple, Z. A. (Participant) & Haughton, M. (Participant)
01/08/2020 → 01/08/2025
Project: Research
Research output
- 15 Citations
- 1 Journal article
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Ancestral commons: The deep-time emergence of Bronze Age pastoral mobility
Haughton, M. & Løvschal, M., 2023, (Accepted/In press) In: Antiquity.Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Journal article › Research › peer-review
Activities
- 4 Lecture and oral contribution
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Humans and heathlands: The deep time emergence of landscapes held in common
Løvschal, M. (Lecturer)
29 Mar 2023Activity: Presentations, memberships, ownership and other activities › Lecture and oral contribution
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Pastures of the move: The deep time emergence of landscape mobility
Løvschal, M. (Lecturer)
13 Mar 2023Activity: Presentations, memberships, ownership and other activities › Lecture and oral contribution
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The emergence of commons and the governance of anthropogenic heathlands in late prehistoric Europe
Løvschal, M. (Lecturer)
3 May 2022Activity: Presentations, memberships, ownership and other activities › Lecture and oral contribution