The Afghan Cultural Heritage Crisis: UNESCO's Response to the Destruction of Statues in Afghanistan

Manhart, Christian

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“…A setting that is suffering from recent political occupation and potential cultural suppression is the Crimea and the Donbass region of eastern Ukraine, where Russia has recently started to conduct military operations and occupy the territory (Mbah and Wasum, 2022). In addition, future work could examine how place-based entrepreneurs engage in custodial work under authoritative regimes, such as that in Afghanistan, where the Taliban set out to destroy all the statues in the country and erase the Afghan cultural heritage (Manhart, 2001).…”

Section: Limitations and Future Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

When entrepreneurs become custodians: Categories’ place-based identity and collective coping response in extreme contexts

Haşim

Soppe

2023

Strategic Organization

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We conducted a qualitative study of the category of independent tourism entrepreneurs in the politically contested territory of Northern Cyprus to understand how a collective of entrepreneurs whose shared identity is deeply rooted in place perceives and copes with threats arising in an extreme context. Northern Cyprus is an extreme context as it suffers from enduring political and socio-cultural challenges. Our findings reveal that the entrepreneurs’ collective identity is rooted in a deep-seated attachment to local family, culture, and region. This place-based collective identity drives not only their entrepreneurial engagement, but also their explicit concern for cultural suppression and dilution as a core identity threat and commons problem within the extreme context. Our findings show how the place-based entrepreneurs, in coping with this threat, become custodians of local culture as they engage in a set of collective custodial activities aimed at preserving the local cultural heritage. Our study holds important contributions for research on categories and place, custodianship, and entrepreneurship in extreme contexts.

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Section: Limitations and Future Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

When entrepreneurs become custodians: Categories’ place-based identity and collective coping response in extreme contexts

Haşim

Soppe

2023

Strategic Organization

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“…Consequently, an unspecified number of objects in the museum were destroyed. On 26th February 2001, an edict prohibited the 'adoration of idols' (Manhart, 2001) branding the two 6th-century Buddha statues in Bamiyan "a sanctuary for unbelievers". In March 2001, the Buddhas were dynamited.…”

Section: Cultural Heritagementioning

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The epistemicide in Afghanistan: an analysis of Taliban’s policies towards national and cultural symbols

Malik,

Jan,

Ullah

2023

Lib. Arts Soc. Sci. Int. J.

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After taking over Kabul for the second time when the US-led NATO forces left Afghanistan in 2021, the Taliban resumed their past practices. To run the affairs of Afghanistan, the Taliban use political Islam, the way they understand and interpret it, as the nodal point around which they articulate the signs and symbols in a chain of equivalence. This paper analyses the Taliban’s policies regarding Afghanistan's historical, national, and cultural symbols. Using epistemicide as an analytical device, we argue that in the name of Puritanism and the reconstitution of Afghanistan, according to Sharia, the Taliban discovered and erased all symbols of historical Afghanistan. This tends to serve as a case of epistemicide of the Afghan culture and wipes the slate of Afghan history clean. This paper explains how the Taliban silenced, devalued, and consequently moved to eradicate Afghanistan's cultural memory and knowledge system. This paper provides an account of what the Taliban’s policies convey by silencing Afghanistan's historical texts, histories, and narratives. The Afghan society is faced with internal colonisation, which refuses that knowledge production is a social practice that takes into cognisance the history and culture of the Afghan people, among other factors.

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“…Besides human suffering, an unprecedented attack on Afghanistan’s cultural heritage has unfolded in broad daylight, sometimes even on live TV. While high-profile attacks, such as the notorious case of the Bamiyan Buddha [ 1 ], have captured the attention of the international community, the true size and scale of the war-related damage, as well as the effects of sustained looting of cultural heritage are still under assessment [ 2 – 6 ].…”

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A remote sensing-based survey of archaeological/heritage sites near Kandahar, Afghanistan through publicly available satellite imagery

Karaucak

Steiniger²,

Boroffka³

2021

PLoS ONE

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Due to its conflict-ridden recent history, it has been difficult to launch major archaeological projects and advanced field research in Afghanistan during the last forty years. Lately, the proliferation of remote sensing methods, especially the increasing availability of satellite imagery, has allowed generating a much-needed impetus for documentation and monitoring of the heritage in Afghanistan. In this study, we present novel site data obtained through an examination of publicly available satellite imagery in the southwestern region of Kandahar. The sites presented here consist of a multitude of cultural heritage such as settlement mounds, architectural remains, religious monuments, fortresses, and traditional water management systems. We also discuss the advantages, as well as the drawbacks of remote sensing surveys for archaeological research in Afghanistan, and share our data to be employed in further research and cultural heritage management in the region.

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The Afghan Cultural Heritage Crisis: UNESCO's Response to the Destruction of Statues in Afghanistan

Cited by 15 publications

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When entrepreneurs become custodians: Categories’ place-based identity and collective coping response in extreme contexts

When entrepreneurs become custodians: Categories’ place-based identity and collective coping response in extreme contexts

The epistemicide in Afghanistan: an analysis of Taliban’s policies towards national and cultural symbols

A remote sensing-based survey of archaeological/heritage sites near Kandahar, Afghanistan through publicly available satellite imagery

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