Beverley Butler
Biographic Data
| ID | 102103 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Beverley Butler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Beverley |
| FAMILY NAME | Butler |
| SIGNATURE | BUTLER B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6512-2362 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
On heritage pharmacology: Rethinking ‘heritage pathologies’ as tropes of care
This article develops the concept of heritage pharmacology as an encompassing critical framework in order to radically recast the interactions and efficacies of heritage as a particularly potent pharmacology of care. I critically engage with Stiegler's philosophic reflections On Pharmacology, which builds on Derrida's work and recasts pharmacology – a term usually reserved for that branch of the biomedical sciences dealing with drugs and their in…
Rehoming Flinders Petrie’s “Homeless Palestinian Collection”
Palestine has a material presence in the story of the founding of the Institute of Archaeology (IoA) in London.The first institute director, Mortimer Wheeler, in his 1953 address on the centenary of Flinders Petrie's birth, tells of the vital role that Petrie's renown, and his "homeless Palestinian collection," subsequently rehomed in Britain, had in the establishment of the IoA.Once secured, the IoA goes on to take a crucial role in the colonial…
Heritage questing with Virginia Woolf: UCL Institute of Archaeology’s ‘spirit of place’ and new pedagogies of the pandemic
This article charts a particular journey of discovery – that of ‘heritage questing with Virginia Woolf’. We explore how, against the backdrop of COVID-19, the Master’s in Cultural Heritage Studies (MACHS) adopted and adapted Virginia Woolf as an efficacious ‘ancestor figure’ around which staff and students were able to grasp, engage with, articulate and try to understand the extraordinary experiences and challenges faced throughout the academic y…
Egypt: Constructed Exiles of the Imagination
In this chapter, the author focuses on selected dynamics of exile and landscape in order to explore powerful narratives of belonging and exclusion in which Egypt is constructed as an exile of the imagination. To date, critics have reflected upon the enduring potency of the Egyptian landscape –– the ‘lure of Egypt’ –– as the site for the construction of ‘mythical pasts and imagined homelands’. The landscape of Alexandria evokes a host of histories…
Obligations Towards ‘Re-Housing’ ‘Memory-In-Exile’ and ‘Persons and Heritage-In-Extremis’: From Archons to Besieged Subjects and Beyond
This paper is a thought piece and a journey of critical archival questing - although not a redemptive journey – it is engaged with in order to openup points of archival potency, paradox and possibility for further critical reflection, reconfiguration and action. Given that this archival quest has been undertaken at a contemporary moment in which many thousands more displaced persons - refugees and migrants – risk their lives undertaking journeys …
Viewpoint: Archaeology of Strikes and Revolution
Viewpoint: Archaeology of Strikes and Revolution
We Palestinian Refugees”: Heritage Rites and/as the Clothing of Bare Life: Reconfiguring Paradox, Obligation, and Imperative in Palestinian Refugee Camps in Jordan
Our joint research addresses the complex role of heritage in selected Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan. Informed by the ‘We Refugee’ theses of Arendt (1943) and Agamben (1995) we see these ‘heritage ethnographies’ as a means to explore the paradoxes confronted by refugees as subject to both a ‘bio-political rites of passage’ that consigns them to ‘spaces of exception’ as ‘homo sacre’ and ‘bare life’ and as simultaneously obligated to the imper…
‘Taking on a Tradition’: African Heritage and the Testimony of Memory
This chapter narrates the historical 'Westernisation' of heritage memory and the challenges made to this discourse as it is confronted by an 'othering' identified as an 'Africanist turn'. It has subversive attitudes toward 'reading' literary texts and a preoccupation with oral and memorising practices. Underpinning the chapter is a need to apprehend more clearly 'heritage memory' as a 'performative moment', a space of uncanny encounter with ances…
The Efficacies of Heritage: Syndromes, Magics, and Possessional Acts
In this paper I present critical insights into the efficacies of heritage. I take the phenomenon of the Jerusalem Syndrome (JS) as my point of departure and recast it as Heritage Syndrome (HS). I do this to better understand how such efficacies are experienced and materialized in ritual possessional acts. As a framework, the JS reveals the power and potency that reside in experiences of collapse. Such disembedding events activate subsequent ritua…
Alexandria revived: New realizations of an ancient city
The city of Alexandria exerts a powerfl hold on the Western imagination, as part of, but distinct from, the rest of Egypt. The recent undersea discovery of part of the Pharos (lighthouse) and Cleopatra's palace, and the resurrection on land of the ancient Mouseion-Library, are transforming perceptions of Alexandria's cultural heritage
Collectors, Crusaders, Carers, and Tourist Networks in Possessing Mandate Palestine
This paper is taken from a wider body of research that focuses upon selected institutions, groups, and individuals — the collectors, crusaders, and carers of my title — that are bound up in the historical and contemporary (cultural-political) project of ‘possessing Palestine’ (Butler, forthcoming). My research explores the ways in which the desire to ‘possess Palestine’ — whether as a pilgrim, tourist, crusader, archaeologist, missionary, and/or …
Palestinian Heritage 'to the moment': Archival Memory and the Representation of Heritage in Conflict
This paper is envisaged as a 'thought piece' that provides a critical introduction to what emerged as the organising motif of the Archaeology in Conflict conference's particular exploration of Palestinian heritage and identity: that of thinking more broadly in terms of the archive — or, more critically still, in terms of archival memory. As such, this paper seeks to uncover the specific operational, conceptual and moral-ethical issues at stake in…
Othering’ the archive—from exile to inclusion and heritage dignity: The case of Palestinian archival memory
Conflict and heritage care
Heritage and the Present Past
Three concepts”—Hospitality, cosmopolitanism, and human dignity: Reconceptualising heritage futures
Alexandria revived: New realizations of an ancient city
The Tree, the Tower and the Shaman: The Material Culture of Resistance of the No M11 Link Roads Protest of Wanstead and Leytonstone, London
This paper, 'The tree, the Tower and the Shaman', is a bricolage of comment, analysis, critique, oral testimony and myth, the 'subject' of which is the material culture of one specific urban landscape - Claremont Road. My text explores the ways in which a study of material culture offers us an insight into the cultures of resistance that inhabited this particular space in protest against the British National Roads Programme, and similarly, the im…
The Tree, the Tower and the Shaman: The Material Culture of Resistance of the No M11 Link Roads Protest of Wanstead and Leytonstone, London
This paper, 'The tree, the Tower and the Shaman', is a bricolage of comment, analysis, critique, oral testimony and myth, the 'subject' of which is the material culture of one specific urban landscape - Claremont Road. My text explores the ways in which a study of material culture offers us an insight into the cultures of resistance that inhabited this particular space in protest against the British National Roads Programme, and similarly, the im…
Othering’ the archive—from exile to inclusion and heritage dignity: The case of Palestinian archival memory
Conflict and heritage care
We Palestinian Refugees”: Heritage Rites and/as the Clothing of Bare Life: Reconfiguring Paradox, Obligation, and Imperative in Palestinian Refugee Camps in Jordan
Our joint research addresses the complex role of heritage in selected Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan. Informed by the ‘We Refugee’ theses of Arendt (1943) and Agamben (1995) we see these ‘heritage ethnographies’ as a means to explore the paradoxes confronted by refugees as subject to both a ‘bio-political rites of passage’ that consigns them to ‘spaces of exception’ as ‘homo sacre’ and ‘bare life’ and as simultaneously obligated to the imper…
The Efficacies of Heritage: Syndromes, Magics, and Possessional Acts
In this paper I present critical insights into the efficacies of heritage. I take the phenomenon of the Jerusalem Syndrome (JS) as my point of departure and recast it as Heritage Syndrome (HS). I do this to better understand how such efficacies are experienced and materialized in ritual possessional acts. As a framework, the JS reveals the power and potency that reside in experiences of collapse. Such disembedding events activate subsequent ritua…
The Tree, the Tower and the Shaman: The Material Culture of Resistance of the No M11 Link Roads Protest of Wanstead and Leytonstone, London
This paper, 'The tree, the Tower and the Shaman', is a bricolage of comment, analysis, critique, oral testimony and myth, the 'subject' of which is the material culture of one specific urban landscape - Claremont Road. My text explores the ways in which a study of material culture offers us an insight into the cultures of resistance that inhabited this particular space in protest against the British National Roads Programme, and similarly, the im…
Alexandria revived: New realizations of an ancient city
Heritage and the Present Past
Three concepts”—Hospitality, cosmopolitanism, and human dignity: Reconceptualising heritage futures
Conflict and heritage care
Palestinian Heritage 'to the moment': Archival Memory and the Representation of Heritage in Conflict
This paper is envisaged as a 'thought piece' that provides a critical introduction to what emerged as the organising motif of the Archaeology in Conflict conference's particular exploration of Palestinian heritage and identity: that of thinking more broadly in terms of the archive — or, more critically still, in terms of archival memory. As such, this paper seeks to uncover the specific operational, conceptual and moral-ethical issues at stake in…
Othering’ the archive—from exile to inclusion and heritage dignity: The case of Palestinian archival memory
Alexandria revived: New realizations of an ancient city
The city of Alexandria exerts a powerfl hold on the Western imagination, as part of, but distinct from, the rest of Egypt. The recent undersea discovery of part of the Pharos (lighthouse) and Cleopatra's palace, and the resurrection on land of the ancient Mouseion-Library, are transforming perceptions of Alexandria's cultural heritage
Collectors, Crusaders, Carers, and Tourist Networks in Possessing Mandate Palestine
This paper is taken from a wider body of research that focuses upon selected institutions, groups, and individuals — the collectors, crusaders, and carers of my title — that are bound up in the historical and contemporary (cultural-political) project of ‘possessing Palestine’ (Butler, forthcoming). My research explores the ways in which the desire to ‘possess Palestine’ — whether as a pilgrim, tourist, crusader, archaeologist, missionary, and/or …
‘Taking on a Tradition’: African Heritage and the Testimony of Memory
This chapter narrates the historical 'Westernisation' of heritage memory and the challenges made to this discourse as it is confronted by an 'othering' identified as an 'Africanist turn'. It has subversive attitudes toward 'reading' literary texts and a preoccupation with oral and memorising practices. Underpinning the chapter is a need to apprehend more clearly 'heritage memory' as a 'performative moment', a space of uncanny encounter with ances…
The Efficacies of Heritage: Syndromes, Magics, and Possessional Acts
In this paper I present critical insights into the efficacies of heritage. I take the phenomenon of the Jerusalem Syndrome (JS) as my point of departure and recast it as Heritage Syndrome (HS). I do this to better understand how such efficacies are experienced and materialized in ritual possessional acts. As a framework, the JS reveals the power and potency that reside in experiences of collapse. Such disembedding events activate subsequent ritua…
We Palestinian Refugees”: Heritage Rites and/as the Clothing of Bare Life: Reconfiguring Paradox, Obligation, and Imperative in Palestinian Refugee Camps in Jordan
Our joint research addresses the complex role of heritage in selected Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan. Informed by the ‘We Refugee’ theses of Arendt (1943) and Agamben (1995) we see these ‘heritage ethnographies’ as a means to explore the paradoxes confronted by refugees as subject to both a ‘bio-political rites of passage’ that consigns them to ‘spaces of exception’ as ‘homo sacre’ and ‘bare life’ and as simultaneously obligated to the imper…
Viewpoint: Archaeology of Strikes and Revolution
Viewpoint: Archaeology of Strikes and Revolution
Obligations Towards ‘Re-Housing’ ‘Memory-In-Exile’ and ‘Persons and Heritage-In-Extremis’: From Archons to Besieged Subjects and Beyond
This paper is a thought piece and a journey of critical archival questing - although not a redemptive journey – it is engaged with in order to openup points of archival potency, paradox and possibility for further critical reflection, reconfiguration and action. Given that this archival quest has been undertaken at a contemporary moment in which many thousands more displaced persons - refugees and migrants – risk their lives undertaking journeys …
Egypt: Constructed Exiles of the Imagination
In this chapter, the author focuses on selected dynamics of exile and landscape in order to explore powerful narratives of belonging and exclusion in which Egypt is constructed as an exile of the imagination. To date, critics have reflected upon the enduring potency of the Egyptian landscape –– the ‘lure of Egypt’ –– as the site for the construction of ‘mythical pasts and imagined homelands’. The landscape of Alexandria evokes a host of histories…
Heritage questing with Virginia Woolf: UCL Institute of Archaeology’s ‘spirit of place’ and new pedagogies of the pandemic
This article charts a particular journey of discovery – that of ‘heritage questing with Virginia Woolf’. We explore how, against the backdrop of COVID-19, the Master’s in Cultural Heritage Studies (MACHS) adopted and adapted Virginia Woolf as an efficacious ‘ancestor figure’ around which staff and students were able to grasp, engage with, articulate and try to understand the extraordinary experiences and challenges faced throughout the academic y…
Rehoming Flinders Petrie’s “Homeless Palestinian Collection”
Palestine has a material presence in the story of the founding of the Institute of Archaeology (IoA) in London.The first institute director, Mortimer Wheeler, in his 1953 address on the centenary of Flinders Petrie's birth, tells of the vital role that Petrie's renown, and his "homeless Palestinian collection," subsequently rehomed in Britain, had in the establishment of the IoA.Once secured, the IoA goes on to take a crucial role in the colonial…
On heritage pharmacology: Rethinking ‘heritage pathologies’ as tropes of care
This article develops the concept of heritage pharmacology as an encompassing critical framework in order to radically recast the interactions and efficacies of heritage as a particularly potent pharmacology of care. I critically engage with Stiegler's philosophic reflections On Pharmacology, which builds on Derrida's work and recasts pharmacology – a term usually reserved for that branch of the biomedical sciences dealing with drugs and their in…
History (14 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Art (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Aesthetics (7 works) · Archaeology (7 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Cultural heritage (5 works)