Eugene N. Anderson’s research while affiliated with University of California, Riverside and other places

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Publications (33)


The Oxford World History of Empire: Volume One: The Imperial Experience
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March 2021

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The Oxford World History of Empire, Vol.1: The Imperial Experience is dedicated to synthesis and comparison. Following a comprehensive theoretical survey and world-historical synthesis, fifteen chapters analyze and explore the multifaceted experience of empire across cultures and through five millennia. The broad range of perspectives includes: scale, world systems and geopolitics, military organization, political economy and elite formation, monumental display, law, mapping and registering, religion, literature, the politics of difference, resistance, energy transfers, ecology, memories, and the decline of empires. This broad set of topics is united by the central theme of power, examined under four headings: systems of power, cultures of power, disparities of power, and memory and decline. Taken together, these chapters offer a comprehensive view of the imperial experience in world history


The social evolution of distant othering and the racialized other

November 2020

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Critical race theory holds that racism, and by extension othering, is embedded within every aspect of American society. We agree with critical race theorists, but elaborate further, that othering in some form or another, has existed since the Stone Age, and evolves with the uneven expansion of social complexity and the emergence of hierarchies. Othering, has always been important for reproducing differences and inequalities within society. We highlight the socially “distant other” to instruct the ways we discern modern racism, and how it has evolved from its past iterations. The argument we hope to convey is that at its core, distant othering involves the fear of a perceived threat to the existing social order and with the emergence of global capitalism, the racialized version of othering is violent, a violence that that becomes particularly intense when rates of profit collapse (i.e. economic crises) and/or when group-statuses are threatened. The theoretical perspective we use is institutional materialism and we take a historical, long-term sociocultural evolution approach. We detail othering in the Stone Age, which centers around kinship distance, the transition from small scale societies to the Bronze Age, as well as othering in the Axial Age and the modern era. The modern version of othering, which centers on nationality, race and ethnicity, is coupled with global capitalism and plays out in particularly cruel ways.


Complexities of Collapse: A Review of "Understanding Collapse: Ancient History and Modern Myths" by Guy D. Middleton (Cambridge University Press, 2017)
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July 2020

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Cliodynamics The Journal of Quantitative History and Cultural Evolution

A review of "Understanding Collapse: Ancient History and Modern Myths" by Guy D. Middleton (Cambridge University Press, 2017)

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Ecologies of the Heart: People, Land, and Heritage Management in the Pacific Northwest

February 2020

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Moral sanctions, religion, oral stories/histories, and other codes of ethics that evolved to ensure the sustainable management of natural resources are a cornerstone of human social organization. The management of archaeological and heritage resources today are generally top-down and government-sanctioned efforts that are woefully inadequate for considering culturally attributed meaning and value. We argue that a more heart-centered approach to archaeology considers culturally attributed value to heritage, which, in Northwestern North America, includes an array of ecocultural, land-based, and ephemeral heritage sites resulting from the careful management of people over millennia. Consulting archaeology practiced in Gitxsan and Wet’suwet’en territory, a contested landscape where oil and gas development displaces people from their lands, is fundamentally at odds with these communities’ treatment and ethos of their ecocultural inheritance. The consideration of ecocultural and land-based heritage is not merely good practice for archaeologists; it follows from a suite of resource management strategies that have been tried and tested by Indigenous peoples over millennia—it is a more effective, just, and productive practice.


Cyclical Evolution of the Global Right

November 2019

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Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie

An understanding of the current right-wing national and transnational social movements can benefit from comparing them to the global and national conditions operating during their last appearance in the first half of the twentieth century and by carefully comparing twentieth-century fascism with the neofascist and right-wing populist movements that have been emerging in the twenty-first century. This allows us to assess the similarities and differences, and to gain insights about what could be the consequences of the reemergence of populist nationalism and fascist movements. Our study uses the comparative evolutionary world-systems perspective to study the Global Right from 1800 to the present. We see fascism as a form of capitalism that emerges when the capitalist project is in crisis. World historical waves of right-wing populism and fascism are caused by the cycles of globalization and deglobalization, the rise and fall of hegemonic core powers, long business cycles (the Kondratieff wave), and interactions with both Centrist Liberalism and the Global Left. We consider how crises of the global capitalist system have produced right-wing backlashes in the past, and how a future terminal crisis of capitalism could lead to a reemergence of a new form of authoritarian global governance or a reorganized global democracy in the future. © 2019 Canadian Sociological Association/La Société canadienne de sociologie.


High Empire: The Glory Days of Early Medieval Eastern Asia

June 2019

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The period from 550 to 960 was a glorious age for East Asia. China reunited under the short-lived but high-achieving Sui Dynasty. China’s Tang Dynasty was an international empire of riches and intellectual progress. The Silk Road (actually a number of caravan trails) was fully open to commerce. Military action followed, leading to China dramatically confronting the western world-system in the Battle of Talas River in 751; China lost to expanding Islam, setting permanent western limits to Chinese control. Vietnam, Japan and Korea fully entered the East Asian world-system, with active trade, commerce, communication, and city-building. The period started in a time of harsh climate, cold and dry, but this did not stop and may have encouraged consolidation and state formation. Climate warmed, and by 960 the Medieval Warm Period was under way. It came after the collapse of Tang, but early fluctuations were associated with Tang’s fall and with changes in Korea and Japan.



Long-Lived Dynasties: Ming and Its Contemporaries

June 2019

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East Asia was finally united and usually peaceful for a very long time. The Little Ice Age kept the colder parts of the region in difficult straits. In China, the Ming Dynasty consolidated control, sent out huge exploring expeditions but abandoned them, and settled down to a dull rule. Korea, inspired by China, threw off the Mongol yoke and unified under the Yi Dynasty, which was to rule until the end of the nineteenth century. Japan suffered more violent times, with catastrophic civil war in the sixteenth century, resolved by unification under the powerful and efficient Tokugawa shogunate. Vietnam dealt with Ming invasion and brief conquest, then had to deal with uncertain and contested rule. Particularly cold and harsh conditions in the early seventeenth century did not stop the northern Manchu armies from conquering China in 1644. Japan and Vietnam, buffered by geography from the cold, consolidated and flourished.


The Creation of Stable Dynastic Empires in East and Southeast Asia

June 2019

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The Qin Empire united China but soon fell, being replaced by the Han Empire, which lasted over 400 years to become China’s longest-lived dynasty. Han consolidated Chinese governmental strategy, uniting Ru (Confucian) and Legalist ideas, with some Daoist influence. The Xiongnu Empire rose as a competitor and was largely defeated, but at enormous cost. This set a pattern for later wars on the northern Central Asian frontiers. Meanwhile, Vietnam, Korea, and Japan moved toward civilization, but were still isolated, small powers. This took place in a time of warm, moist climate, which greatly helped both China and the Xiongnu, but did not deeply affect the other regions. The Roman Empire was also benefited; Han and Rome had enough distant and indirect contact to give the Romans some idea of the “silk people” (the Chinese).


The Mongol Conquests of China and Korea and Invasion of Japan

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The final burst of global warming enabled the Mongols to rise from subarctic obscurity to world-conquerors. They quickly subdued Korea, went on to take China, and unsuccessfully invaded Japan and Vietnam. The end of the Medieval Warm Period and the beginning of the Little Ice Age proved fatal to Mongol rule in the east. Meanwhile, the Mongol Empire in the west fell apart, as grandsons of Chinggis Khan fought each other and adjusted to new homes in Russia, Mesopotamia, and Central Asia. Nativist rebellions in China and Korea restored Ruist ideals and traditional forms, but the absolutist rule of the Mongols proved too attractive to resist. The Mongols, with their world empire, created a society extremely open to new ideas, especially from the western world via Central Asia. New foods, medicines, and political ideas poured into China and eventually spread throughout East Asia. Trade flourished.


Citations (12)


... They also clearly showed that resistance to political authority does not necessarily take the form of loud protest and revolutionary effervescence but also -and more often -that of discrete and strategic evasion of the grip of the state (Scott 1977(Scott , 1985(Scott , 1990(Scott , 2017Wolf 1969). The contemporary studies of empires increasingly take all these different aspects into account, focusing on political systems and networks of power, aspects of the political economy but also of the lived experience of the subjects (Bang, Bayly , Scheidel 2020). ...

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Building Walls, Social Groups and Empires: A Study of Political Power and Compliance in the Neo-Assyrian Period
The Oxford World History of Empire: Volume One: The Imperial Experience
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  • March 2021

... Identities are organized around "othering", which oftentimes include different forms of stereotyping. This, in turn, reproduces differences and inequalities within societies and communities (Grell-Brisk et al., 2020). An important aspect of this is labelling the known "Other" (Brubaker and Cooper, 2000). ...

The social evolution of distant othering and the racialized other
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  • November 2020

... With this relational perspective, we invite readers of this special issue to join us in a shared conversation, since ethnobiology has taken the co-construction of environments as a base assumption of the discipline since at least the third phase (Hunn 2007;McAlvay et al. 2021;Wolverton 2013;). Increasingly, ethnobiologists are bringing political and economic context into this analysis in ways that lay bare the material and scholarly harms of extractive research while pointing to reparative and co-constructed models (Armstrong and Anderson 2020;Vandebroek et al. 2020;Zent and Zent 2022). Ethnobiologists recognize virtually all landscapes as influenced by human activity, from forest or desert (Nabhan et al. 1983) species diversity to centuries of climate change writ large (Stephens et al. 2019). ...

Ecologies of the Heart: People, Land, and Heritage Management in the Pacific Northwest
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  • February 2020

... Though globalization (in the form of both increased trade and more open finance) is well understood to generate significant inequalities favoring holders of capital, they may do so regionally and not just along existing economic cleavages, or they may generate demands for compensatory tax systems that would impose real costs on high earners and their corporations (Rodrik 2018). Chase-Dunn et al. (2019), following Goldfrank (1978), note that while fascism is understood as a movement created and led by non-elites, contemporary neo-fascism, also called "populist nationalism," is an offshoot of authoritarianism, created by members of the existing political and economic elite and dependent upon them for funding, political latitude, message, organization, and leadership. This is a top-down movement fostered by existing political classes as they see their positions, or the positions of their organizations, deteriorating (Goldfrank 1978;Chase-Dunn et al. 2019). ...

Cyclical Evolution of the Global Right

Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie

... Strong national power during warm and humid periods often fueled expansionist ambitions and led to external conflicts. The Mongol Empire's conflicts with Japan stemmed from the refusal of the latter to acknowledge Kublai Khan's authority, rather than climate-induced aggression (Turnbull, 2010;Anderson, 2019). Economic and commercial activities under China's tributary system fostered harmonious relations among China, neighboring countries, and nomadic groups (Jagchid and Symons, 1989). ...

The Mongol Conquests of China and Korea and Invasion of Japan
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  • June 2019

... The 1368-1644 Ming Dynasty China developed into a powerful, cohesive, international feudal empire under the Ming dynasty (Ditmanson 2020). After putting an end to the Mongol threat for 89 years, Yung Lo, also known as Yung Le or Zhu Di, became the third monarch of the Ming Dynasty and ascended to the throne in 1403 (Anderson and Anderson 2019). Declaring himself to be the emperor, he adopted the Yung Lo dynasty title. ...

Long-Lived Dynasties: Ming and Its Contemporaries
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  • June 2019

... The concept has also been incorporated into conservation biology and extended to include deep-time landscape history (Cevasco et al. 2015). Thus, biocultural heritage can be seen as an integrating concept for historical ecology and for landscape history studies (Lane 2010; Armstrong et al. 2017; Lane 2024). ...

Anthropological contributions to historical ecology: 50 questions, infinite prospects

... I believe that the same can be said about ethnoornithology studies set in different ethnographic contexts on other continents, which generally focus on native wild birds, and pay little or no attention to simple and ubiquitous species like chickens and other common domestic birds . The same is true even when scholars investigate native birds raised as pets or in captivity (Bulmer 1967;Hunn 1977;Majnep & Bulmer 1977;Nelson 1983;important exceptions are Forth 2004: 39-40, 89-90;Jernigan 2016;Bonta 2008;Tidemann & Gosler 2010;Anderson 2016;Forth 2016 ;Jernigan 2016) . ...

Birds of the Mongol Empire

Ethnobiology Letters

... Given that much of the data available for conservation science and practice exists at 20-m or greater scales, we argue that systematically incorporating local knowledge of environmental change will provide a more accurate picture of both the true changes in forest cover and also the community preference for conservation actions. Thus, we echo the increasingly-established finding that including community perspectives will both practically and ethically benefit conservation science (e.g., Zinda et al., 2016). Furthermore, quantifying local F I G U R E 5 From left to right: Restoration priority maps for approximately 10% of the mangrove area in Pemba, Tanzania based on our remote sensing analysis alone, the community perceptions of mangrove change alone, and the optimization across the two data sources. ...

China's ecosystems: Sacrificing the poor
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  • August 2016

Science

... Equally important, is the recognition that the rich world is simultaneously responsible for much of the acceleration of the Anthropocene, and it became rich through the historical dispossession of land and resources of communities globally (Byravan & Rajan, 2010;Callahan & Mankin, 2022). Additionally, concepts of sustainable development are necessarily human-centric and normative; the social notions and values that compose its definition-those related to ideas of nature, equity, quality of life, material wealth-are contextually and culturally specific (Alaimo, 2012;Anderson, 2016;W. Harcourt, 1994;Inoue & Moreira, 2016;Okereke, 2007). ...

The Relative Native: Essays on Indigenous Conceptual Worlds. By Eduardo Viveiros de Castro. 2015. HAU Press, Chicago. 366 pp.

Ethnobiology Letters