Bioarchaeology, Activism and Social Justice

Equitable and Sustainable Global Futures
Herausgegeben:Halcrow, Siân; Agarwal, Sabrina C.; de la Cova, Carlina; Gowland, Rebecca; Robbins Schug, Gwen

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This open access volume is the first dedicated to action within bioarchaeology and cognate disciplines, with the aim of fostering social and political change. The editors bring together a diverse range of bioarchaeologists and related practitioners whose work engages with some of the most pressing social issues facing humanity today, including infectious disease, structural violence, healthcare and inequitable access to resources, racial injustice, ethics, food insecurity, displacement, equitable education, and the intersections of these challenges with identities such as race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, and disability. These issues explored in this volume are at the heart of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted in 2015, and encapsulated in the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals. Each chapter makes explicit connections to contemporary issues and demonstrates how our work can be used to effect social change, offering practical steps for developing an activist lens in research, practice, and academia. This volume will be of interest to academics, practitioners, and students in bioarchaeology and related disciplines.

Produktdetails

• Bioarchaeology and Social Theory
• Verlag: Springer, Berlin; University Of California, Berkeley
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 89283489
• Seitenzahl: 251
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2026
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 155mm
• ISBN-13: 9783032103536
• ISBN-10: 3032103533
• Artikelnr.: 75533378

Autorenporträt

Sabrina C. Agarwal is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. She is engaged in the application of research in bone maintenance to dialogues of social identity, embodiment, developmental plasticity, and inequality in bioarchaeology. She has examined age- and growth-related changes in cortical bone microstructure, trabecular architecture, bone mineral density, and bone strength in several historic British and Italian archaeological populations, and has examined the long-term effect of growth and reproduction (parity and lactation) on the human and non-human primate maternal skeleton, and studying samples from prehistoric Turkey and Japan. Her current research is also invested in bioethics of skeletal biology/bioarchaeology, specifically the practice and ethics curation and repatriation of skeletal/ancestral remains. She has numerous peer-reviewed publications and co-edited volumes including Social Bioarchaeology and Exploring Sex and Gender in Bioarchaeology, and co-author of the best-selling textbook Laboratory Manual and Workbook for Biological Anthropology. She is co-founder of the Western Bioarchaeology Group (WeBiG), co-founder and former co-chair of the Bioarchaeology Interest Group in the Society for American Archaeology (SAA), is co-founding Editor-in-Chief of Bioarchaeology International, and currently serves on the Editorial Board of American Antiquity.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. Introduction: Bioarchaeologists Should be Activists Too (Halcrow
et al).- Part 1. Social Justice in Academia: Towards a More Inclusive and
Equitable Discipline.- Chapter 2. Justice, Equality and Diversity within
the Academy (Gowland and Daxini).- Chapter 3. Racial Equity, Ethics, and
Sustainable Futures in Anatomical Sciences (Schug et al).- Chapter 4.
Diversity, Representation, and Inclusion in Forensic Anthropology (Paz et
al).- Chapter 5. Cripping, Queering, and Transforming Education in
Biological Anthropology (Blatta et al).- Part 2. Structural Violence,
Marginalization, and Systems of Colonialism.- Chapter 6.
Institutionalization and Health in Past Populations: Social Justice
Perspectives (Zuckerman and Willis).- Chapter 7. The Unborn in
Bioarchaeology: Personhood, Care, and Pregnant Person-infant Health Through
a Structural Violence Lens (Halcrow et al).- Chapter 8. Marginalization in
Life and Death: Moving Towards Re-humanization of Archaeological Bodies
(Sohler-Snoddy and Kendall).- Chapter 9. The Past, Present, and Future of
Eating Animals (Agarwal).- Part 3. Community Bioarchaeology, Stakeholders,
and Ethics.- Chapter 10. Engaging the Public: Anthropology's Power to
Impact Communities (Alexander).- Chapter 11. Human Remains as ‘Conflict
Antiquities’ and How Bioarchaeology and Forensic Anthropology Can Change
the Narrative (Huffer et al).- Chapter 12. The Road to Hell is Paved with
Good Intentions: Queering Biotechnical Analysis of Sex Estimation
(Geller).- Chapter 13. Ethics and Exhibition of Historical Human Body
Casts: A Brief Case Study from Pompeii, Campania Region, Southern Italy
with an Activist Lens (Arizza et al).- Chapter 14. Conclusions/Afterword:
Towards Becoming an Activist Academic (Halcrow et al).