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Looking at Landscape’s Political-Economic Fissures to Understand Social Radicals

Sayers, Daniel O.·2024·International Journal of Historical Archaeology
DOI 10.1007/s10761-022-00683-2
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When thinking about ways to explore the American past with the goal of developing radical progressive modes of moving forward into our own histories, the specific perspectives we use and the people we study matter. In my interrogations of the lives of Maroons and Indigenous Americans of the Great Dismal Swamp (VA and NC), and transient hobos in Delta, PA, I have explored social worlds created by people who acted through a living critique of the wider capitalistic world. A central part of that critique was recognizing the parts of the American geographic landscape that we would later call “underdeveloped” or “undeveloped” areas effectively, “cracks” in the spatial world of capital. Using examples from my work, I discuss why these people do matter to our contemporary discussions on fomenting radical social transformations today.

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Authors
Sayers, D. O.
Affiliations
American University (US)
Corresponding author
Sayers, Daniel O.
ORCID
Sayers, Daniel O.
Venue
International Journal of Historical Archaeology
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
2023-01-10
Volume
28
Issue
1
Pages
64-85
ISSN
  • 1092-7697 (ISSN-L)
  • 1573-7748
DOI
10.1007/s10761-022-00683-2
OpenAlex
W4315491513
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43
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Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
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Locations
International Journal of Historical Archaeology (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Anthropology › Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Race, History, and American Society
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Anarchism and Radical Politics
Keywords
Great Dismal Swamp, Maroons, Native Americans, hobos, radical social movements, critique of capitalism, political economy, social radicalism, American past

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