The Land Gone Wild. Archaeological and Transdisciplinary Research on Resilience Strategies in the 20th Century

CZ.02.01.01/00/23_025/0008705

Today’s Czech society faces several interconnected threats (external threat from hostile power, internal threat from political extremists, risk of intentional influence operations, risk of uncoordinated spread of disinformations), which are largely connected by the purposeful handling of the interpretation of the recent past and the manipulation of community memory. It is possible to counter this risk and increase social resilience by using new categories of sources (modern artifacts, ecofacts and their structures, study of the sub-recent landscape and material manifestations of the memory of communities that inhabited it or still live there). These sources provide equally authentic testimony about the past as commonly used official documents, ego-documents, literary images or memories of eyewitnesses, but due to their material (and not narrative) nature, they show significantly higher resistance to misinterpretation than usual historical narratives.

Consortium: Institute of Archaeology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague Center for Theoretical Study, Charles University The Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences University of West Bohemia in Pilsen

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