Depoliticizing Archaeology for Constructing Pasts and Presents

Pappa, Eleftheria

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“…Indeed, the capacity of objects to be unmoored from their contexts—physical, social, cultural, political, and religious—is one of the paradoxes of world heritage. It is all the more urgent to consider, given the ongoing Saudi war on Yemen and the destruction of its cultural heritage (Khalidi, ), to say nothing of the aftermath of the 2003 American invasion of Iraq setting in motion the looting of its antiquities (Pappa, ), a looting continued by ISIS (Harmanşah, ).…”

Section: Making Heritage In the Middle East: Materials Histories Of Emmentioning

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Heritage and the Middle East: Cities, power, and memory

Hammond

2019

Geography Compass

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In a moment of global urban change, migration, and political transformation, the politics and practices of cultural heritage might seem to have little import. However, this paper argues that focusing on cultural heritage in the Middle East provides two key insights with much broader relevance. First, examining how heritage is made (and unmade) shows one way that regions are constructed through the articulation of material and symbolic connections. Second, these regions might be better understood not as containers but as complexes in and in relation to which people articulate and communicate shared meanings. These insights build upon and extend recent theorizations of cultural geopolitics. In surveying an interdisciplinary body of scholarship on Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Turkey, Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and the Gulf, this article seeks to expand the linkages between geography and Middle East area studies scholarship. It begins by connecting current debates about planetary urbanization in relation to a historiography of the "Middle Eastern city" and suggests that thinking in terms of heritage provides a novel approach for understanding both new and old regional imaginaries. It then highlights three dynamics that make the politics of heritage distinct in this region. It closes with a discussion of the dual role that heritage can play in both contesting and facilitating topdown projects of dispossession and urban transformation.

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Section: Making Heritage In the Middle East: Materials Histories Of Emmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These critiques of heritage resonate both through work embedded within the region (Pappa, ) and the broader discipline of heritage studies (Harrison, ; Waterton & Watson, ).…”

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Heritage and the Middle East: Cities, power, and memory

Hammond

2019

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A Chronological Exploration of Key Influences on the Development of Tourism

Crous-Costa

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Morere-Molinero

2023

Tourism: A Temporal Analysis

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Contemporary tourism is often accepted as the direct heir of the European Grand Tour in the 18th century, which in turn succeeded the Age of Discovery during the 15th 17th centuries (Chaney, 1998). However, a closer look into the subject reveals the existing tourism ecosystem has deeper roots (Morère Molinero, 2021). It encompassed various reasons for travel – for trade, pilgrimages and diplomacy, among other purposes. The values that emerged from the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolutions, in addition to the gradual crystallization of capitalism, were instrumental in shaping new geopolitical structures worldwide, in which Europe occupied the hegemonic centre (Towner, 1985; Bertrand, 2008). At the same time, these major events transformed the forms and rhythms of both life and work in Europe.

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Depoliticizing Archaeology for Constructing Pasts and Presents

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Heritage and the Middle East: Cities, power, and memory

Heritage and the Middle East: Cities, power, and memory

A Chronological Exploration of Key Influences on the Development of Tourism

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