Uzma Z Rizvi
Biographic Data
| ID | 902124 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Uzma Z Rizvi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Uzma Z |
| FAMILY NAME | Rizvi |
| SIGNATURE | RIZVI U Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pratt Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1280-0457 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 194 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Community engagement in archaeology and heritage in Pakistan
EDITORS' COMMENTWe are delighted to be able to host this outstanding collection of papers on community engaged heritage projects in Pakistan, written by eight specialist from that country. As so eloquently expressed by our guest editor for this issue, Uzma Z. Rizvi, the Global North has for too long acted as gate keeper for what material from other parts of the world gets published in international journals. Consequently, it would seem much more …
Archaeology, ethnography and epistemic critiques of the nation
Much needed within scholarship related to archaeology, the construction of nations, and the politics of epistemic practice, the two books under review-Bureaucratic archaeology and Archaeology, nation, and race-are certainly welcome additions. The first, by Ashish Avikunthak, is a deep and engaged ethnographic study of the ways by which the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) produces archaeology, and links it to religiosity, at the excavation si…
Community-Based and Participatory Praxis as Decolonizing Archaeological Methods and the Betrayal of New Research
Heritage Practice: The Politics of Racism/Gender/Sexuality
In this piece, I highlight the critical interventions presented in this collection for archaeology as heritage practice, as well as amplify many of the points that were made in relation to politics, particularly around the intersection of racism and gender/sexuality. Core tensions running through this collection are the many relationships between ways of being, concepts of heritage, visibility/invisibility of communities of people, and the practi…
Archaeological Encounters: The Role of the Speculative in Decolonial Archaeology
This article reorients archaeology's approach to things by acknowledging the moment of the encounter with the past as one of speculation. Years of scientific claim, research design and methodology place the agentive nature of research in the hands of the archaeologist: we go to the site to find the past. However, if we acquiesce to the possibility that antiquity approaches the archaeologist (rather than vice versa), then that forces us to contend…
Construction of the racialised and colonised other: Global Comparatives in Imperial and Colonial Archaeology
Whereas Sarr and Savoy (2018) focus on artefacts taken from various African countries after 1885, Incidental archaeologists, considers "the first four decades of the French conquest and pacification of Algeria under the authority of the French military Government General" (p. 24). Throughout the volume, Effros presents a convincing argument in which the social history of military infrastructure lays the groundwork for the future of the French civ…
Critical Heritage and Participatory Discourse in the UAE
Decolonization is not imagined in the same way around the world. Indeed, the recognition that colonization did not happen in a similar fashion in a global context is key to envisioning futures that free the binds of colonial rule and neocolonialism. A desire to decolonize requires close attention to these specific histories, and the manners by which populations of people in the same place were impacted differently. Uniting these varied experience…
Ambivalent Fields: On the Work of Negative Monuments
Archaeology as Bearing Witness
Visual Culture(s) in the Gulf: An Anthology
There are books written about the Gulf, and then there are those written for the Gulf. The research for this book has been in the works for a while, a condition I applaud. The accelerated speed of
On being and care. Joining the conversation on the symmetries/asymmetries of human-thing relations
Having followed the scholarship related to new materialisms, the call for a symmetrical archaeology, its critiques and subsequent responses, I believe that this dialogue is one of the more interesting ones as it illustrates the problematic and reiterative nature of debate within a symmetrical/asymmetrical framework. There is some clarity achieved through the utterly collegial challenges posited in emails between Ian Hodder and Gavin Lucas; enjoya…
Connections and Complexity
Connections and Complexity: New Approaches to the Archaeology of South Asia
Handbook of Postcolonial Archaeology
This essential handbook explores the relationship between the postcolonial critique and the field of archaeology, a discipline that developed historically in conjunction with European colonialism and imperialism. In aiding the movement to decolonize the profession, the contributors to this volume-themselves from six continents and many representing indigenous and minority communities and disadvantaged countries-suggest strategies to strip archaeo…
Crafting resonance: Empathy and belonging in ancient Rajasthan
In this article I introduce the concept of resonance to interrogate how things and meanings are relevant beyond the cultural context within which they begin. The notion of resonance is theorized as an intangible affect that the material thing has beyond its formal physical boundaries within larger planes of perception creating dynamic relationships among humans/nonhumans and illustrating cultural decisions of material as vibrant matter. If materi…
Ingesting the Material from Ganeshwar to Karbala: Reconstituting the Analytic and Recognizing Centrifugality in Archaeological Theory
Museums in postcolonial Europe
edited by Dominic Thomas, London, Routledge, 2009, 144 pp., £80 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-415-56135-8. In a growing literature about postcolonialism in heritage studies, particularly from the stance o
The Fertile Goddess at the Brooklyn Museum of Art: Excavating the Western Feminist Art Movement and Recontextualizing New Heritages
Archaeology and the Postcolonial Critique
In recent years, postcolonial theories have emerged as one of the significant paradigms of contemporary academia, affecting disciplines throughout the humanities and social sciences. These theories address the complex processes if colonialism on culture and society—with repect to both the colonizers and the colonized—to help us understand the colonial experience in its entirety. The contributors to Archaeology and the Postcolonial Critique presen…
Accounting for Multiple Desires: Decolonizing Methodologies, Archaeology, and the Public Interest
Archaeology and the Postcolonial Critique
In recent years, postcolonial theories have emerged as one of the significant paradigms of contemporary academia, affecting disciplines throughout the humanities and social sciences. These theories address the complex processes if colonialism on culture and society—with repect to both the colonizers and the colonized—to help us understand the colonial experience in its entirety. The contributors to Archaeology and the Postcolonial Critique presen…
Handbook of Postcolonial Archaeology
This essential handbook explores the relationship between the postcolonial critique and the field of archaeology, a discipline that developed historically in conjunction with European colonialism and imperialism. In aiding the movement to decolonize the profession, the contributors to this volume-themselves from six continents and many representing indigenous and minority communities and disadvantaged countries-suggest strategies to strip archaeo…
Archaeological Encounters: The Role of the Speculative in Decolonial Archaeology
This article reorients archaeology's approach to things by acknowledging the moment of the encounter with the past as one of speculation. Years of scientific claim, research design and methodology place the agentive nature of research in the hands of the archaeologist: we go to the site to find the past. However, if we acquiesce to the possibility that antiquity approaches the archaeologist (rather than vice versa), then that forces us to contend…
Archaeology as Bearing Witness
Crafting resonance: Empathy and belonging in ancient Rajasthan
In this article I introduce the concept of resonance to interrogate how things and meanings are relevant beyond the cultural context within which they begin. The notion of resonance is theorized as an intangible affect that the material thing has beyond its formal physical boundaries within larger planes of perception creating dynamic relationships among humans/nonhumans and illustrating cultural decisions of material as vibrant matter. If materi…
Accounting for Multiple Desires: Decolonizing Methodologies, Archaeology, and the Public Interest
Community engagement in archaeology and heritage in Pakistan
EDITORS' COMMENTWe are delighted to be able to host this outstanding collection of papers on community engaged heritage projects in Pakistan, written by eight specialist from that country. As so eloquently expressed by our guest editor for this issue, Uzma Z. Rizvi, the Global North has for too long acted as gate keeper for what material from other parts of the world gets published in international journals. Consequently, it would seem much more …
Critical Heritage and Participatory Discourse in the UAE
Decolonization is not imagined in the same way around the world. Indeed, the recognition that colonization did not happen in a similar fashion in a global context is key to envisioning futures that free the binds of colonial rule and neocolonialism. A desire to decolonize requires close attention to these specific histories, and the manners by which populations of people in the same place were impacted differently. Uniting these varied experience…
Ambivalent Fields: On the Work of Negative Monuments
Visual Culture(s) in the Gulf: An Anthology
There are books written about the Gulf, and then there are those written for the Gulf. The research for this book has been in the works for a while, a condition I applaud. The accelerated speed of
On being and care. Joining the conversation on the symmetries/asymmetries of human-thing relations
Having followed the scholarship related to new materialisms, the call for a symmetrical archaeology, its critiques and subsequent responses, I believe that this dialogue is one of the more interesting ones as it illustrates the problematic and reiterative nature of debate within a symmetrical/asymmetrical framework. There is some clarity achieved through the utterly collegial challenges posited in emails between Ian Hodder and Gavin Lucas; enjoya…
Ingesting the Material from Ganeshwar to Karbala: Reconstituting the Analytic and Recognizing Centrifugality in Archaeological Theory
Accounting for Multiple Desires: Decolonizing Methodologies, Archaeology, and the Public Interest
Archaeology and the Postcolonial Critique
In recent years, postcolonial theories have emerged as one of the significant paradigms of contemporary academia, affecting disciplines throughout the humanities and social sciences. These theories address the complex processes if colonialism on culture and society—with repect to both the colonizers and the colonized—to help us understand the colonial experience in its entirety. The contributors to Archaeology and the Postcolonial Critique presen…
The Fertile Goddess at the Brooklyn Museum of Art: Excavating the Western Feminist Art Movement and Recontextualizing New Heritages
Museums in postcolonial Europe
edited by Dominic Thomas, London, Routledge, 2009, 144 pp., £80 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-415-56135-8. In a growing literature about postcolonialism in heritage studies, particularly from the stance o
Ingesting the Material from Ganeshwar to Karbala: Reconstituting the Analytic and Recognizing Centrifugality in Archaeological Theory
Crafting resonance: Empathy and belonging in ancient Rajasthan
In this article I introduce the concept of resonance to interrogate how things and meanings are relevant beyond the cultural context within which they begin. The notion of resonance is theorized as an intangible affect that the material thing has beyond its formal physical boundaries within larger planes of perception creating dynamic relationships among humans/nonhumans and illustrating cultural decisions of material as vibrant matter. If materi…
Connections and Complexity
Connections and Complexity: New Approaches to the Archaeology of South Asia
Handbook of Postcolonial Archaeology
This essential handbook explores the relationship between the postcolonial critique and the field of archaeology, a discipline that developed historically in conjunction with European colonialism and imperialism. In aiding the movement to decolonize the profession, the contributors to this volume-themselves from six continents and many representing indigenous and minority communities and disadvantaged countries-suggest strategies to strip archaeo…
Visual Culture(s) in the Gulf: An Anthology
There are books written about the Gulf, and then there are those written for the Gulf. The research for this book has been in the works for a while, a condition I applaud. The accelerated speed of
On being and care. Joining the conversation on the symmetries/asymmetries of human-thing relations
Having followed the scholarship related to new materialisms, the call for a symmetrical archaeology, its critiques and subsequent responses, I believe that this dialogue is one of the more interesting ones as it illustrates the problematic and reiterative nature of debate within a symmetrical/asymmetrical framework. There is some clarity achieved through the utterly collegial challenges posited in emails between Ian Hodder and Gavin Lucas; enjoya…
Critical Heritage and Participatory Discourse in the UAE
Decolonization is not imagined in the same way around the world. Indeed, the recognition that colonization did not happen in a similar fashion in a global context is key to envisioning futures that free the binds of colonial rule and neocolonialism. A desire to decolonize requires close attention to these specific histories, and the manners by which populations of people in the same place were impacted differently. Uniting these varied experience…
Ambivalent Fields: On the Work of Negative Monuments
Archaeology as Bearing Witness
Archaeological Encounters: The Role of the Speculative in Decolonial Archaeology
This article reorients archaeology's approach to things by acknowledging the moment of the encounter with the past as one of speculation. Years of scientific claim, research design and methodology place the agentive nature of research in the hands of the archaeologist: we go to the site to find the past. However, if we acquiesce to the possibility that antiquity approaches the archaeologist (rather than vice versa), then that forces us to contend…
Construction of the racialised and colonised other: Global Comparatives in Imperial and Colonial Archaeology
Whereas Sarr and Savoy (2018) focus on artefacts taken from various African countries after 1885, Incidental archaeologists, considers "the first four decades of the French conquest and pacification of Algeria under the authority of the French military Government General" (p. 24). Throughout the volume, Effros presents a convincing argument in which the social history of military infrastructure lays the groundwork for the future of the French civ…
Community-Based and Participatory Praxis as Decolonizing Archaeological Methods and the Betrayal of New Research
Heritage Practice: The Politics of Racism/Gender/Sexuality
In this piece, I highlight the critical interventions presented in this collection for archaeology as heritage practice, as well as amplify many of the points that were made in relation to politics, particularly around the intersection of racism and gender/sexuality. Core tensions running through this collection are the many relationships between ways of being, concepts of heritage, visibility/invisibility of communities of people, and the practi…
Community engagement in archaeology and heritage in Pakistan
EDITORS' COMMENTWe are delighted to be able to host this outstanding collection of papers on community engaged heritage projects in Pakistan, written by eight specialist from that country. As so eloquently expressed by our guest editor for this issue, Uzma Z. Rizvi, the Global North has for too long acted as gate keeper for what material from other parts of the world gets published in international journals. Consequently, it would seem much more …
Archaeology, ethnography and epistemic critiques of the nation
Much needed within scholarship related to archaeology, the construction of nations, and the politics of epistemic practice, the two books under review-Bureaucratic archaeology and Archaeology, nation, and race-are certainly welcome additions. The first, by Ashish Avikunthak, is a deep and engaged ethnographic study of the ways by which the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) produces archaeology, and links it to religiosity, at the excavation si…
History (16 works) · Archaeology (11 works) · History (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Art (10 works) · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation (9 works) · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Aesthetics (5 works)