The dark side of the empire: Roman expansionism between object agency and predatory regime
This paper offers a critique of some recent new materialist approaches and their application to Roman expansionism. According to certain authors, ‘Romanisation’ should be about “understanding objects in motion”, a perspective that carries ethical implications. In contrast, we introduce the notion of...
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2020
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| author | Fernández-Götz, M Maschek, D Roymans, N |
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| description | This paper offers a critique of some recent new materialist approaches and their
application to Roman expansionism. According to certain authors, ‘Romanisation’ should be
about “understanding objects in motion”, a perspective that carries ethical implications. In
contrast, we introduce the notion of a predatory political economy as an alternative for
conceptualising Late Republican and Early Imperial Rome. Our approach aims to make
visible the dark sides of Roman expansionism in order to produce a more balanced and
inclusive account. Two archaeological cases studies –Roman conquest and rural
communities– are presented to illustrate the potential of such a perspective. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:772a01a4-e5f4-4094-8cac-563e1e1f7d0f2022-03-26T20:21:47ZThe dark side of the empire: Roman expansionism between object agency and predatory regimeJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:772a01a4-e5f4-4094-8cac-563e1e1f7d0fEnglishSymplectic ElementsCambridge University Press2020Fernández-Götz, MMaschek, DRoymans, NThis paper offers a critique of some recent new materialist approaches and their application to Roman expansionism. According to certain authors, ‘Romanisation’ should be about “understanding objects in motion”, a perspective that carries ethical implications. In contrast, we introduce the notion of a predatory political economy as an alternative for conceptualising Late Republican and Early Imperial Rome. Our approach aims to make visible the dark sides of Roman expansionism in order to produce a more balanced and inclusive account. Two archaeological cases studies –Roman conquest and rural communities– are presented to illustrate the potential of such a perspective. |
| spellingShingle | Fernández-Götz, M Maschek, D Roymans, N The dark side of the empire: Roman expansionism between object agency and predatory regime |
| title | The dark side of the empire: Roman expansionism between object agency and predatory regime |
| title_full | The dark side of the empire: Roman expansionism between object agency and predatory regime |
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| title_short | The dark side of the empire: Roman expansionism between object agency and predatory regime |
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