Resilience and the afterlives of events : archaeological theory for heritage practice

Mlekuž, Dimitrij (avtor)

Resilience is frequently mobilized in heritage discourse as a systemic capacity for stability and recovery. This article critically interrogates resilience as a managerial rationality imported into archaeological and heritage practice, often without sufficient attention to its epistemological and political implications. Drawing on assemblage theory and the concept of the event, it reframes resilience archaeologically as a material effect of relations among people, things, practices, and landscapes. Rather than evaluating the persistence of bounded entities, resilience is approached through material reconfigurations, ruptures, and continuities that leave durable traces in the archaeological record. This perspective clarifies how processes commonly described as collapse, reorganization, or emergence become archaeologically legible, and why not all disturbances constitute events. The article then examines heritage as the afterlife of events, conceptualized as an assemblage that stabilizes rupture through practices of conservation, commemoration, and care. Heritage endurance is neither automatic nor neutral, but contingent on ongoing work and embedded in relations of power. The article concludes by reflecting on the ethical and political limits of resilience in contexts of crisis and inequality, arguing for a reflexive, assemblage-based understanding of heritage focused on processes of reorganization rather than managerial equilibrium.

• Jezik: Angleški jezik
• Ključne besede: resilience, assemblage theory, event, archaeology, heritage practice, materiality, transformation, collapse
• Vrsta gradiva: Članek v reviji
• Tipologija: 1.01 - Izvirni znanstveni članek
• Organizacija: FF - Filozofska fakulteta
• Status publikacije: Objavljeno
• Različica publikacije: Objavljena publikacija
• Datum objave: 01.01.2026
• Leto izida: 2026
• Št. strani: 16 str.
• Številčenje: Vol. 9, iss. 3
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-179889
• UDK: 902.3
• ISSN pri članku: 2571-9408
• DOI: 10.3390/heritage9030090
• COBISS.SI-ID: 269747203
• Datum objave v RUL: 26.02.2026

Gradivo je del revije

• Naslov: Heritage
• Skrajšan naslov: Heritage
• Založnik: MDPI AG
• ISSN: 2571-9408
• COBISS.SI-ID: 1538164675

Licence

• Licenca: CC BY-NC 4.0, Creative Commons Priznanje avtorstva-Nekomercialno 4.0 Mednarodna
• Povezava: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/deed.sl
• Opis: Licenca Creative Commons, ki prepoveduje komercialno uporabo, vendar uporabniki ne rabijo upravljati materialnih avtorskih pravic na izpeljanih delih z enako licenco.

Sekundarni jezik

• Jezik: Slovenski jezik
• Ključne besede: odpornost, teorija sestavov, dogodek, arheologija, assemblage teorija, materialnost, preobrazba, kolaps

Projekti

• Financer: ARIS - Javna agencija za znanstvenoraziskovalno in inovacijsko dejavnost Republike Slovenije
• Številka projekta: P6-0247
• Naslov: Arheologija

• Financer: Drugi - Drug financer ali več financerjev
• Program financ.: Univerza v Ljubljani
• Številka projekta: SN-ZRD/22-27/0510
• Naslov: Materialna odpornost v časih okoljskih in družbenih sprememb
• Akronim: MATRES