Usable Pasts Forum: Critically Engaging Food Security

Logan, Amanda L.; Stump, Daryl; Goldstein, Steven T.; Orijemie, Emuobosa Akpo; Schoeman, Maria H.

doi:10.1007/s10437-019-09347-9

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“…Amanda Logan (2016) argues for the importance of archaeology as an "alternative archive of food security" that illuminates how people of Banda, Ghana, avoided famine in the face of a centuries-long drought by relying on indigenous grains that are uncommon today. Her insights can apply to policy and practice today as people confront changing climate (Logan et al 2019), and work like hers has inspired a new "Usable Pasts Forum" as a regular feature of the African Archaeological Review (Ogundiran 2019). In a similar vein, Kathleen Morrison (2015) makes a case for how richly contextualized material histories can inform South Asian resource management strategies in the present and future.…”

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confidence: 94%

“…While some archaeologists make a case for how our work can contribute positively by creating “usable” pasts for sustainable futures (Lane , ; Logan et al. ; Ogundiran ; cf. Stump ), others take a more sober view of whether archaeology should be “useful” given the uses of archaeology in the past in which it was “harnessed for ill” (Dawdy , 132).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Her insights can apply to policy and practice today as people confront changing climate (Logan et al. ), and work like hers has inspired a new “Usable Pasts Forum” as a regular feature of the African Archaeological Review (Ogundiran ). In a similar vein, Kathleen Morrison () makes a case for how richly contextualized material histories can inform South Asian resource management strategies in the present and future.…”

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“…Archaeology is not alone in this concern, with the future a focus of burgeoning scholarly attention (Adam 2010;Appadurai 2013;Ferry 2016;Kleist and Jansen 2016). While some archaeologists make a case for how our work can contribute positively by creating "usable" pasts for sustainable futures (Lane 2011(Lane , 2015Logan et al 2019;Ogundiran 2019;cf. Stump 2013), others take a more sober view of whether archaeology should be "useful" given the uses of archaeology in the past in which it was "harnessed for ill" (Dawdy 2009, 132).…”

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Assembling “Effective Archaeologies” toward Equitable Futures

Stahl

2020

American Anthropologist

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An urgency compels us to engage how archaeology relates to contemporary situations and future dilemmas as citizens anxiously contemplate their futures. We see “crowd‐sourced” efforts to define pressing questions. A welter of theoretical approaches promises new insight into our relationally configured worlds. We couple awareness of the situated character of knowledge with a commitment to its empirical grounding. In light of this contemporary frame, I explore principles of an “effective archaeology” that imagines its “impacts” beyond narrow “uses.” By attending to how we make facts, archives, and narratives; by placing Western knowledge in productive dialogue with knowledge grounded in other epistemologies; and by embracing a disciplinary responsibility to expand and enlarge imaginings of futures through evidentially robust and critically engaged practice, effective archaeologies hold promise to build toward more equitable futures. [archaeology, epistemology, ontology, knowledge production, collaboration]

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Assembling “Effective Archaeologies” toward Equitable Futures

Stahl

2020

American Anthropologist

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“…Five of the pervasive concepts in archaeology (and anthropology broadly) during the past 20 years are vulnerability, collapse, resilience, regeneration, and sustainability (e.g., Chase and Scarborough 2014;Lane 2010;Logan et al 2019;McAnany and Yoffee 2009;Redman 2005). These concepts-for which I will use the acronym, VCRRS-are often invoked in discussions about how past societies have coped with (or failed to manage) climate change, natural disaster, conflict, ecological degradation, resource scarcity, and social inequality and the implications for the present and future.…”

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