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Heritage and the Cultural Struggle for Palestine (Hardcover)
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Heritage and the Cultural Struggle for Palestine (Hardcover)
Series: Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures
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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 projects-notably the Hebron Rehabilitation
Committee, Riwaq, and the Palestinian Museum-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 violence-and
a model of how things could be.
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