Journal article
The dark side of the empire: Roman expansionism between object agency and predatory regime
- Abstract:
- 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.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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(Preview, Accepted manuscript, pdf, 196.7KB, Terms of use)
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.15184/aqy.2020.125
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Journal:
- Antiquity More from this journal
- Volume:
- 94
- Issue:
- 378
- Pages:
- 1630 - 1639
- Publication date:
- 2020-12-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2020-04-29
- DOI:
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1745-1744
- ISSN:
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0003-598X
- Language:
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English
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- Pubs id:
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1102508
- Local pid:
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pubs:1102508
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2020-04-30
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- Copyright holder:
- Fernandez-Götz et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2020
- Rights statement:
- © The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Antiquity Publications Ltd
- Notes:
- This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available from Cambridge University Press at: https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2020.125
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