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2018 ; 46
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): 291-303
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The Social Burden of Resilience: A Historical Perspective
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Izdebski A
; Mordechai L
; White S
Hum Ecol Interdiscip J
2018[]; 46
(3
): 291-303
PMID29997408
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We examine the social burden associated with resilience to environmental shocks
in pre-modern societies. We argue that analyses of state-level interventions to
mitigate the consequences of catastrophic events tend to isolate these measures
from their larger social contexts and thereby overlook the uneven distribution of
their burden across different groups. We use three cases of pre-modern societies
in the northeastern Mediterranean - the sixth century Roman Empire, the tenth
century Byzantine Empire, and the sixteenth century Ottoman Empire. We
demonstrate how the adaptive processes that reinforced resilience at the state
level incurred different burdens for those at lower levels of the social
hierarchy. We found that some groups sustained losses while others gained
unexpected benefits in the context of temporary systemic instability. We also
found that although elites enjoyed enhanced buffers against the adverse effects
in comparison with non-elites, this did not consistently guarantee them a better
outcome. We conclude that the differentiated burden of resilience could in some
cases entrench existing political or economic configurations, and in other cases,
overturn them. Our case studies indirectly address the pressing issue of
environmental justice.