The Mediterranean: The Asian and African Roots of the Cradle of Civilization

Lopes, Helena Trindade; Almeida, Isabel

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“…Being at the crossroads of three continents -Europe, Africa, and Asia-its geographical particularity is considered as a key driver for intensive cultural creation and diversity, marking developments in this region throughout the centuries [11]. Its impact on shaping the so-called Western world through time is also well established, both in society and in academia [111].…”

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Sustainable Management of Underwater Cultural Heritage: The Route from Discovery to Engagement—Open Issues in the Mediterranean

Argyropoulos

Stratigea

2019

Heritage

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Fatal events taking place in World War (WW) I and II have left behind important historical evidence as an underwater cultural heritage (UCH) (e.g., shipwrecks, submerged aircraft, war artifacts), lying in peace at the bottom of, among others, the Mediterranean Sea. The article aims at exploring the challenges for UCH protection/preservation and sustainable exploitation with emphasis on this sea. UCH is so far dealt with in a “silo” approach by marine archaeologists or heritage professionals, who often ignore its potential for serving local sustainable development goals. The paper elaborates on the value, but also the complexity, multi- and inter-disciplinary as well as multi-actors’ nature of UCH management and sustainable exploitation, perceiving these as a “wicked” planning problem. It attempts to illuminate various important dimensions of this problem, such as its glocal (global/local) context; the conflicting and, in certain cases, inconsistent UCH legal protection framework, touching upon a variety of spatial scales; the contemporary policy frameworks favoring UCH management; etc. Exploration of these dimensions reveals open issues or gaps that need to be filled, and sets the ground for a more holistic and integrated UCH research and management approach for building up the yet largely untold, Mediterranean WW I and II UCH narrative; and shifting this area from a sea graveyard to a place of memory and cultural enrichment.

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Sustainable Management of Underwater Cultural Heritage: The Route from Discovery to Engagement—Open Issues in the Mediterranean

Argyropoulos

Stratigea

2019

Heritage

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Introductory Chapter: The Importance of Reception Studies for Ancient History

Lopes¹,

Almeida²,

Rosa³

2020

Antiquity and Its Reception - Modern Expressions of the Past

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The landscape of my days appears to be composed, like mountainous regions, of varied materials heaped up pell-mell. There I see my nature, itself composite, made up of equal parts of instinct and training. Here and there protrude the granite peaks of the inevitable, but all about is rubble from the landslips of chance (...) [1]. 1. Reception studies and history Reception studies applied to history constitute a relatively new research field that was clearly influenced by the postulates of Reception Theory's scholars, such as Hans-Robert Jauss [21], which were developed during the 1960s and 1970s within literary studies. For this theoretical current, the significances of a given literary composition should be understood as always dependable of the readers, who produce meanings according to their own background. This proposal thus responded to the structuralist approach of the 1940's New Criticism, which defended that a text stood for itself ([2], pp. 250-255). Subsequently, several academics applied these notions in their historical approaches to literature. One of the scholars we should mention is Martindale [3, 16] who postulates in his opus Redeeming the Text the imperative need to include reception theory in the research area of classical studies ([4], p. 1). In this seminal work, Martindale identified some of the theoretical formulations that allow to recognise relevant historical significances in the different uses of antiquity. Within classical studies, Hardwick's [5] book Reception Studies: Greece and Rome: New Surveys in the Classics constituted another important step into the theoretical and methodological definitions of reception studies applied to ancient history. In this work, Hardwick detailed the main notions and concepts of the field, elaborating on how certain texts, images, and events of the ancient classical world were used in other historical contexts as political, cultural, and social autorictas, but also as symbols of resistance and controversy [19]. If we think about the pre-modern and modern western history, it becomes easy to identify this use of elements produced in antiquity as legitimation tools for those contexts. Take the Renascence, for instance, where there was an obvious reception of ancient Greek and Roman cultural and artistic traits, or the eighteenth century Enlightenment, profoundly marked by considerations on ancient literature, philosophy, and art. And more closely, let us not forget the nineteenth and twentieth century western imperialisms and colonialisms, where political, social, and military practices were justified through allusions to ancient Greek and Roman

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The Mediterranean: The Asian and African Roots of the Cradle of Civilization

Cited by 2 publications

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Sustainable Management of Underwater Cultural Heritage: The Route from Discovery to Engagement—Open Issues in the Mediterranean

Sustainable Management of Underwater Cultural Heritage: The Route from Discovery to Engagement—Open Issues in the Mediterranean

Introductory Chapter: The Importance of Reception Studies for Ancient History

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