Theme:
2. Net Zero Archaeologies – Sustainability in the Past, Present and Future
Session format:
Discussion session (with formal abstracts)
Title:
Archaeology and the Climate Crisis: Resilience, Activism, and Pedagogy
Content:
Human responses to climate change and resilience have long been a focus of archaeological research, but we are only starting to think about the degree to which our discipline should address the current climate crisis. Archaeologists are grappling with a multitude of challenges presented by climate change - issues such as the sustainability of the discipline, how to respond to heritage loss on a variety of scales, and how best to communicate actionable policy advice based on our research. Yet it is in our teaching where we can have the largest impact, by inspiring students toward activism.
Building on Cobb and Croucher (2014; 2020), this session weaves together teaching and research practices to consolidate the relationship between archaeology and the climate crisis, and feed into a framework for archaeological and heritage education.
We welcome contributions that explore creative solutions to questions such as: how can we convey the relevancy of climate change matters from the deep and recent pasts to the present? Can we teach sustainably? Can the effects of the current climate crisis in archaeology be examined in our teaching? We would also like to use this as a space to share best practice. Are you changing how you teach/practice archaeology in response to climate change and if so, how? Are you working with communities to think about heritage loss due to climate change, or engaged with multi-vocal co-creation and student leadership in teaching? Are you collaborating with other disciplines or professions to actively tackle the current climate crisis? Does this translate into your teaching (both within and outside the classroom)?
Keywords:
Teaching and learning, Pedagogy, Climate change, Archaeological practice, Sustainable archaeology, Heritage management
Session associated with MERC:
no
Session associated with CIfA:
no
Session associated with SAfA:
no
Session associated with CAA:
no
Session associated with DGUF:
no
Session associated with other:
Main organiser:
Stephanie Piper (United Kingdom) 1
Co-organisers:
Katherine Patton (Canada) 2
Affiliations:
1. University of York
2. University of Toronto
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