Globalisation, Consumerism and the Ancient Roman Economy: A Preliminary Look at Bronze and Iron Production and Consumption

Ratliff, Melissa L.

doi:10.16995/trac2010_32_46

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“…42 Consequently, even defining 'globalisation' is problematic, and while one common thread is marked transformations in spatial connectivity (on supraterritorial or transplanetary scales), there is much debate across a range of disciplines about the limits of such phenomena spatially and historically, and indeed about whether the concept is simply a vacuous gloss for e.g. Hingley 2003;Hitchner 2008;Pitts 2008;Ratliff 2011;Witcher 2000; as with applications of postcolonial theory, Roman archaeology is keeping pace with wider archaeological debate here (cf. Jennings 2011), though perhaps not contributing to it as directly as would be ideal.…”

Section: Fragmenting the Empire: Postcolonial Approachesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Thinking about Roman Imperialism: Postcolonialism, Globalisation and Beyond?

Gardner¹

2013

Britannia

104

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For the last twenty years or so, archaeologists of Roman Britain, among other provinces, have been seeking ways of moving beyond the concept of 'Romanisation' as a framework for thinking about Roman imperialism. Many of the ideas proposed have been drawn from two related bodies of thought which have emerged as ways of understanding the contemporary world: postcolonialism and globalisation theory. While achieving significant success in transforming interpretations of the Roman world, applications of these approaches present some fresh problems of theoretical and practical coherence. These in turn point to important issues to do with the role of theory in Roman archaeology, issues which have rarely been tackled head-on but which present obstacles to interdisciplinary dialogue. The aim of this paper is to evaluate and compare the perspectives of postcolonial and globalisation theories, assess their strengths and weaknesses, and suggest some possibilities for linking the insights of these and other approaches to define a more holistic agenda for Roman archaeology.

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Section: Fragmenting the Empire: Postcolonial Approachesmentioning

confidence: 99%