Cultural Loss Under Bottlenecks – DEmographic, Climatic and Environmental Socks (CLUB-DECES)

• Andreu Arinyo i Prats ^[1]
  1. [1] IFISC-CSIC
• Localización: Terra Incognita [Recurso electrónico]: libro blanco sobre transdisciplinariedad y nuevas formas de investigación en el Sistema Español de Ciencia y Tecnología / coord. por Jorge Caro Saiz, Silvia Díaz de la Fuente, Virginia Ahedo García, Débora Zurro Hernández, Marco Madella, José Manuel Galán Ordax, Luis Rodrigo Izquierdo Millán, José Ignacio Santos Martín, Ricardo del Olmo Martínez, 2020, ISBN 978-84-09-23333-5, págs. 81-90
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The loss of cultural complexity and diversity is a common phenomenon throughout human and potentially non-human history, often in relation to major external shocks. Yet, there are few studies that analyse cultural loss as a topic of research. Difficult questions like the study of cultural resilience need to be answered by the use of a diverse set of tools and datasets that goes beyond the level of multidisciplinarity that currently exists on the cultural studies fields, what is needed is deep conversations and collaboration of multiple research fields and non-academic actors, providing statistical methods, data extraction and analysis, as well as a global understanding of the topic. CLUB-DECES homes in on the resilience of culture under demographic, climatic and environmental shocks –the occurrence of which is prognosed to become more frequent and severe in the future. By modelling and analysing drastic changes in population or in the environment brought about by shocks CLUB-DECES pursues to measure the cultural resilience of culture by adapting methodologies based on Bayesian inference commonly used in cosmological studies. Thus CLUB-DECES involves multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary studies, combining numerical and analytical modelling from a wide suite of fields, primarily using tools developed to model cosmological datasets, data science, archaeological and anthropological data extraction, together with the most susceptible communities, their representatives and involved the institutions. This ambitious endeavour shall study culture in the human and non-human realm, aiming –on the basis of past datasets– to forecast the requirements to achieve a general measure of the shock-induced tipping-points of culture. This is highly relevant now at a global and European scale. Globally climate change and environmental degradation bring to the tipping-point many vulnerable societies, human and non-human. In Europe, rural areas and whole member states, like Bulgaria, are losing large amounts of population due to migration. CLUB-DECES results will shed new light on our understanding of the past, and thanks to that help our present and have influence on the preservation of cultural diversity for future generations.