Historical collapse of ancient states poses intriguing social-ecological questions, as well as potential applications to global change and contemporary strategies for sustainability. Five Old World case studies are developed to identify interactive inputs, triggers, and feedbacks in devolution. Collapse is multicausal and rarely abrupt. Political simplification undermines traditional structures...

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This article examines two major rituals of contemporary national life in the UK: association football and military commemoration. It explores ways which remembering is enacted performed within UK how these processes are related to issues power, agency identity Britain today. Employing concepts collective memory spectacle, this argues that ‘memory entrepreneurs’ have sought embed as ‘site memory...

This paper explores a possible future of postdigital education in 2050 using the means social science fiction. The first part introduces shift from 20 th century primacy physics to 21 st biology with an accent new postdigital–biodigital reconfigurations and challenges after COVID-19 pandemic. second presents fictional speech at graduation ceremony military academy East Asian country 2050. world...

A convergence of four genealogies reveals drone power. Environmentality describes the contradictory uses drones in conservation. Humanitarianism articulates how control is enacted and challenged human crises. Securitization examines surveillance counter-surveillance. Militarization, use war, explains domination from above resistance below. While theories governmentality dominate, an emergent ma...

During the Hallstatt period in Central Europe, profound cultural, economic, and social changes occurred. This is due to emergence of new technologies ‒ primarily iron metallurgy. Another element vicinity dominant economic system, i.e., broadly understood Mediterranean civi-lization, especially Etruscan cities Italy. These asymmetrical relationships forced areas north Alps. An important factor w...