Questioning Collapse challenges those scholars and popular writers who advance the thesis that societies - past and present - collapse because of behavior that destroyed their environments or because of overpopulation. In a series of highly accessible and closely argued essays, a team of internationally recognized scholars bring history and context to bear in their radically different analyses of iconic events, such as the deforestation of Easter Island, the cessation of the Norse colony in Greenland, the faltering of nineteenth-century China, the migration of ancestral peoples away from Chaco Canyon in the American southwest, the crisis and resilience of Lowland Maya kingship, and other societies that purportedly 'collapsed'. Collectively, these essays demonstrate that resilience in the face of societal crises, rather than collapse, is the leitmotif of the human story from the earliest civilizations to the present. Scrutinizing the notion that Euro-American colonial triumphs were an accident of geography, Questioning Collapse also critically examines the complex historical relationship between race and political labels of societal 'success' and 'failure'.
發表於2024-11-25
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全方位批判Diamond的Gem, Gun and Wheel和Collapse,有理有據,可惜大眾不甚瞭解此書,Diamond那種膚淺的environmentalist論述依然盛行。但此書最重要的貢獻是,作者們關注到瞭人類社會resilience的一麵,編者在前言中甚至說,曆史上幾乎沒有發生過真正的collapse(社會秩序的崩壞、族群的消失),更多的是survival和reintegration,從而突齣瞭人的能動性,改變瞭Tainter以來對collapse係統論理解。
評分全方位批判Diamond的Gem, Gun and Wheel和Collapse,有理有據,可惜大眾不甚瞭解此書,Diamond那種膚淺的environmentalist論述依然盛行。但此書最重要的貢獻是,作者們關注到瞭人類社會resilience的一麵,編者在前言中甚至說,曆史上幾乎沒有發生過真正的collapse(社會秩序的崩壞、族群的消失),更多的是survival和reintegration,從而突齣瞭人的能動性,改變瞭Tainter以來對collapse係統論理解。
評分全方位批判Diamond的Gem, Gun and Wheel和Collapse,有理有據,可惜大眾不甚瞭解此書,Diamond那種膚淺的environmentalist論述依然盛行。但此書最重要的貢獻是,作者們關注到瞭人類社會resilience的一麵,編者在前言中甚至說,曆史上幾乎沒有發生過真正的collapse(社會秩序的崩壞、族群的消失),更多的是survival和reintegration,從而突齣瞭人的能動性,改變瞭Tainter以來對collapse係統論理解。
評分全方位批判Diamond的Gem, Gun and Wheel和Collapse,有理有據,可惜大眾不甚瞭解此書,Diamond那種膚淺的environmentalist論述依然盛行。但此書最重要的貢獻是,作者們關注到瞭人類社會resilience的一麵,編者在前言中甚至說,曆史上幾乎沒有發生過真正的collapse(社會秩序的崩壞、族群的消失),更多的是survival和reintegration,從而突齣瞭人的能動性,改變瞭Tainter以來對collapse係統論理解。
評分全方位批判Diamond的Gem, Gun and Wheel和Collapse,有理有據,可惜大眾不甚瞭解此書,Diamond那種膚淺的environmentalist論述依然盛行。但此書最重要的貢獻是,作者們關注到瞭人類社會resilience的一麵,編者在前言中甚至說,曆史上幾乎沒有發生過真正的collapse(社會秩序的崩壞、族群的消失),更多的是survival和reintegration,從而突齣瞭人的能動性,改變瞭Tainter以來對collapse係統論理解。
Questioning Collapse 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載