In this time of Black Lives Matter, the demands of NAGPRA, and
climate crises, the field of American archaeology needs a radical
transformation. It has been largely a white, male, privileged
domain that replicates an entrenched patriarchal, colonial, and
capitalist system. In Bending Archaeology toward Social Justice,
Barbara J. Little explores the concepts and actions required for
such a change, looking to peace studies, anthropology, sociology,
social justice activism, and the achievements of community-based
archaeology for helpful approaches in keeping with the UN
Sustainable Development Goals. She introduces an analytic model
that uses the strengths of archaeology to destabilize violence and
build peace. As Little explains, the Diachronic Transformational
Action model and the peace/violence triad of interconnected
personal, cultural, and structural domains of power can help
disrupt the injustice of all forms of violence. Diachronic connects
the past to the present to understand how power worked in the past
and works now. Transformational influences power now by disrupting
the stability of the violence triad. Action refers to collaborative
work to diagnose power relations and transform toward social
justice. Using this framework, Little confronts the country’s
founding and myth of liberty and justice for all, as well as the
American Dream. She also examines whiteness, antiracism, privilege,
and intergenerational trauma, and offers white archaeologists
concepts to grapple with their own racialized identities and to
consider how to relinquish white supremacy. Archaeological case
studies examine cultural violence and violent direct actions
against women, Indigenous peoples, African Americans, and Japanese
Americans, while archaeologies of poverty, precarity, and labor are
used to show how archaeologists have helped expose the roots of
these injustices. Because climate justice is integral to social
justice, Little showcases insights that archaeology can bring to
bear on the climate crisis and how lessons from the past can inform
direct actions today. Finally, Little invites archaeologists to
embrace inquiry and imagination so that they can both imagine and
achieve the positive peace of social justice.
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