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Amanda Power

amanda power
Sullivan Clarendon Associate Professor in History
Department of History
amanda.power@stcatz.ox.ac.uk
I am a historian working on the building of ancient and medieval states across Eurasia, examining how these centralising processes consciously dislocated humans from local ecosystems and specific and sustainable practices, while creating powerful and enduring narratives about civilisation, progress, barbarism, and the use of resources.

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Research area Adaptation Human systems Impacts Policy and Governance
Research role Principal Investigator Steering Group Member
Research stream Climate Action Impacts Knowledge Exchange
Division Humanities Division
Department History
Research Groups and Programmes Climate Crisis Thinking

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