Globalisation, Ecological Crisis, and Dark Ages

Chew, Sing C.

doi:10.1080/0953732022000016081

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“…The ecological extension of this is that collapse enables a periodic environmental and cultural resetting to take place, and then new societies can develop (Chew 2002(Chew , 2005. This alternative form of determinism (deterministic because of the cyclical nature of the process) places responsibility for collapse on the inhabitants of past societies themselves rather than on climatic or other external factors; in practice many discussions mix these causes.…”

Section: Ecocide and Maladaptationmentioning

confidence: 97%

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Nothing Lasts Forever: Environmental Discourses on the Collapse of Past Societies

Middleton

2012

J Archaeol Res

121

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The study of the collapse of past societies raises many questions for the theory and practice of archaeology. Interest in collapse extends as well into the natural sciences and environmental and sustainability policy. Despite a range of approaches to collapse, the predominant paradigm is environmental collapse, which I argue obscures recognition of the dynamic role of social processes that lie at the heart of human communities. These environmental discourses, together with confusion over terminology and the concepts of collapse, have created widespread aporia about collapse and resulted in the creation of mixed messages about complex historical and social processes.

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Section: Ecocide and Maladaptationmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…64-65;Hawkins 2009;Lemos 2010). A recent adoption of the term extends its meaning to indicate periods of environmental crisis, regeneration, and social transformations, even suggesting we may currently be living in a dark age (Chew 2001(Chew , 2002(Chew , 2005Modelski 2007).…”

Section: Dark Ages Resilience and Regenerationmentioning

confidence: 98%