Heritage and the Cultural Struggle for Palestine

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ID19945291
AuthorsChiara De Cesari (0000-0002-6754-0250, corresponding author)
Year2020
Publication date2020-12-31
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueHeritage and the Cultural Struggle for Palestine (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherStanford University Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1515/9781503609396
OpenAlexW3039425753
ISBN9781503609396
Google Bookse5WnDwAAQBAJ
LanguageEN
Citations received24

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

Ancient history · Archaeology · Cultural heritage · Palestine · Political science · Archaeological Research and Protection · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies

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