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    Wicked Problems for Archaeologists: Heritage as Transformative Practice

    Wicked Problems for Archaeologists by Schofield, John;

    Heritage as Transformative Practice

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    Product details:

    • Publisher OUP Oxford
    • Date of Publication 30 May 2024

    • ISBN 9780192844880
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages368 pages
    • Size 240x160x20 mm
    • Weight 724 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations c. 35
    • 726

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    Short description:

    Can archaeologists help solve the 'Wicked Problems' that the world faces, such as climate change, conflict resolution, and social injustice? This book suggests that they can, but that it requires them to think about archaeology in an entirely new way.

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    Long description:

    'Wicked Problems' are those problems facing the planet and its inhabitants, present and future, which are hard (if not impossible) to resolve and for which bold, creative, and messy solutions are typically required. The adjective 'wicked' describes the mischievous and even evil quality of these problems, where proposed solutions often turn out to be worse than the symptoms. This wide-ranging and innovative book encourages readers to think about archaeology in an entirely new way, as fresh, relevant, and future-oriented. It examines some of the novel ways that archaeology (alongside cultural heritage practice) can contribute to resolving some of the world's most wicked problems, or global challenges as they are sometimes known. With chapters covering climate change, environmental pollution, health and wellbeing, social injustice, and conflict, the book uses many and diverse examples to explain how, through studying the past and present through an archaeological lens, in ways that are creative, ambitious, and both inter- and transdisciplinary, significant 'small wins' can be achieved. Through these small wins, archaeologists can help to mitigate some of those most pressing of wicked problems, contributing therefore to a safer, healthier, and more stable world.

    Archaeology isn't the first subject that comes to mind when researching wicked problems. Yet, according to this important and intriguing book, archaeology is exactly where we can look to gain small wins that carry us towards resolution. In presenting this case, John Schofield may just have redefined the true purpose of archaeology.

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    Table of Contents:

    Preface
    Wicked Problems
    Climate Change
    Environmental Pollution
    Health and Wellbeing
    Entanglement
    Social Injustice
    Conflict
    Transformations
    Some Questions for Book-group Discussions, Essays and Exams
    Bibliography

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