Heritage and the Cultural Struggle for Palestine (Stanford

Heritage and the Cultural Struggle for Palestine (Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures)

In recent decades, Palestinian heritage organizations have launched numerous urban regeneration and museum projects across the West Bank in response to the enduring Israeli occupation. These efforts to reclaim and assert Palestinian heritage differ significantly from the typical global cultural project: here it is people's cultural memory and living environment, rather than ancient history and archaeology, that take center stage. It is local civil society and NGOs, not state actors, who are "doing" heritage. In this context, Palestinian heritage has become not just a practice of resistance, but a resourceful mode of governing the Palestinian landscape. With this book, Chiara De Cesari examines these Palestinian heritage projectsâ€”notably the Hebron Rehabilitation Committee, Riwaq, and the Palestinian Museumâ€”and the transnational actors, practices, and material sites they mobilize to create new institutions in the absence of a sovereign state. Through their rehabilitation of Palestinian heritage, these organizations have halted the expansion of Israeli settlements. They have also given Palestinians opportunities to rethink and transform state functions. Heritage and the Cultural Struggle for Palestine reveals how the West Bank is home to creative experimentation, insurgent agencies, and resourceful attempts to reverse colonial violenceâ€”and a model of how things could be.
Country USA
Brand Stanford University Press
Manufacturer Stanford University Press
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2019-09-24
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781503609389

Country	USA
Brand	Stanford University Press
Manufacturer	Stanford University Press
Binding	Paperback
ReleaseDate	2019-09-24
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781503609389

Heritage and the Cultural Struggle for Palestine (Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures)