Theorizing Resilience and Vulnerability for Social Archaeology – First Thoughts Different Concepts and their Potentials

Heitz, Caroline Franziska (15 September 2022). Theorizing Resilience and Vulnerability for Social Archaeology – First Thoughts Different Concepts and their Potentials (Unpublished). In: Human Agency and Global Challenges Re-Centering Social Change in Archaeology. Bergen, Norway. 15.09.2022.

In this paper I would like to propose a social archaeological approach to climate change archaeology that re-inserts human-thing-relatedness, agencies and practices as well as materiality in vulnerability and resilience research. The question of climate-induced challenges and social transformations has been discussed in archaeology since the 1980s. The “Resilience Theory” and the “Adaptive Cycle Model” by Holling and Gunderson (2002), derived from ecology, are amongst the most widely used approaches.
Arguing from a system-theoretical perspective, this theoretical framework is most suitable for environmental archaeology and the examination of socio-ecological systems.
However, disciplines in the social sciences and humanities, like social and cultural anthropology, sociology or human geography, as well as risk management studies, offer a variety of alternative concepts that argue from different epistemological and theoretical standpoints. I would like to explore some of these socio-spatial approaches by combining concepts like spatial mobility, translocality and (in)security with a materiality of resilience and vulnerabilities.

Item Type:

Conference or Workshop Item (Speech)

Division/Institute:

06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of History and Archaeology > Institute of Archaeological Sciences
10 Strategic Research Centers > Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research (OCCR)
06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of History and Archaeology > Institute of Archaeological Sciences > Pre- and Early History

UniBE Contributor:

Heitz, Caroline Franziska

Subjects:

900 History > 930 History of ancient world (to ca. 499)

Funders:

[4] Swiss National Science Foundation

Projects:

[UNSPECIFIED] Time and Temporality in Archaeology. Approaching Rhythms and Reasons for Societal (Trans)formations in Prehistoric Central Europe (TimeArch)

Language:

English

Submitter:

Caroline Franziska Heitz

Date Deposited:

10 May 2023 13:56

Last Modified:

30 May 2023 07:11

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/182426

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