Going forward by looking back: archaeological perspectives on socio-ecological crisis, response, and collapse

Media type: E-Book

Title: Going forward by looking back : archaeological perspectives on socio-ecological crisis, response, and collapse

Contains: Frontmatter
Contents
Illustrations, Figures, and Tables
Introduction. Framing Catastrophes Archaeologically
Section I. Fire
Introduction
Chapter 1. Do Deep-Time Disasters Hold Lessons for Contemporary Understandings of Resilience and Vulnerability? The Case of the Laacher See Volcanic Eruption
Chapter 2. Risky Business and the Future of the Past: Nuclear Power in the Ring of Fire
Chapter 3. Do Disasters Always Enhance Inequality?
Chapter 4. Political Participation and Social Resilience to the 536/540 CE Atmospheric Catastrophe
Chapter 5. Collapse, Resilience, and Adaptation: An Archaeological Perspective on Continuity and Change in Hazardous Environments
Chapter 6. Continuity in the Face of a Slowly Unfolding Catastrophe: The Persistence of Icelandic Settlement Despite Large-Scale Soil Erosion
Chapter 7. Coping through Connectedness: A Network-Based Modeling Approach Using Radiocarbon Data from the Kuril Islands of Northeast Asia
Section II. Water
Introduction
Chapter 8. The Materiality of Heritage Post-disaster: Negotiating Urban Politics, People, and Place through Collaborative Archaeology
Chapter 9. Mound-Building and the Politics of Disaster Debris
Chapter 10. Catastrophe and Collapse in the Late Pre-Hispanic Andes: Responding for Half a Millennium to Political Fragmentation and Climate Stress
Chapter 11. Beyond One-Shot Hypotheses: Explaining Three Increasingly Large Collapses in the Northern Pueblo Southwest
Chapter 12. Inherent Collapse? Social Dynamics and External Forcing in Early Neolithic and Modern Southwest Germany
Chapter 13. El Niño as Catastrophe on the Peruvian Coast
Chapter 14. A Slow Catastrophe: Anthropocene Futures and Cape Town's "Day Zero"
Conclusion. Rewriting the Disaster Narrative, an Archaeological Imagination
Index

Contributor: Riede, Felix [HerausgeberIn]; Sheets, Payson D. [HerausgeberIn]

imprint: New York; Oxford: Berghahn, 2020

Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 446 Seiten)

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9781789208658

ISBN: 9781789208658

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Keywords: Archaeology and natural disasters Case studies ; Climatic changes Social aspects Case studies ; Disaster relief Social aspects Case studies ; Disasters Social aspects Case studies ; Emergency management Social aspects Case studies ; Environmental archaeology Case studies ; Hazard mitigation Social aspects Case studies ; Human ecology History Case studies ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology

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Footnote: In English

Description: Catastrophes are on the rise due to climate change, as is their toll in terms of lives and livelihoods as world populations rise and people settle into hazardous places. While disaster response and management are traditionally seen as the domain of the natural and technical sciences, awareness of the importance and role of cultural adaptation is essential. This book catalogues a wide and diverse range of case studies of such disasters and human responses. This serves as inspiration for building culturally sensitive adaptations to present and future calamities, to mitigate their impact, and facilitate recoveries

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