Collapse or Survival: Micro-dynamics of crisis and endurance in the ancient central Mediterranean
Elisa Perego, "Collapse or Survival: Micro-dynamics of crisis and endurance in the ancient central Mediterranean"
English | ISBN: 1789251001 | 2019 | 208 pages | EPUB | 11 MB
English | ISBN: 1789251001 | 2019 | 208 pages | EPUB | 11 MB
In the present-day world order, political disintegration, the faltering of economic systems, the controversial yet dramatic consequences of global warming and pollution, and the spread of poverty and social disruption in Western countries have rendered ‘collapse’ one of the hottest topics in the humanities and social sciences. In the frenetic run for identifying the global causes and large-scale consequences of collapse, however, instances of crisis taking place at the micro-scale are not always explored by scholars addressing these issues in present and past societies, while the ‘voices’ of the marginal/non-élite subjects that might be the main victims of collapse are often silenced in ancient history and archaeology.