Heritage and the Cultural Struggle for Palestine

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. The author examines these Palestinian heritage projects and the transnational actors, practices, and material sites they mobilize to create new institutions in the absence of a sovereign state.

List of contents

Introduction: The Stakes of Heritage and the Politics of Culture

1. A Political History of Palestinian Heritage

2. Government Through Heritage in Old Hebron

3. Heritage, NGOs, and State Making

4. Palestinian National Museums Post-Oslo

Conclusion: Cultural Governmentality and Activist Statehood

About the author

Chiara De Cesari is Senior Lecturer of European Studies and Cultural Studies at the University of Amsterdam.

Product details

• Authors: Chiara De Cesari
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9781503609389
• ISBN: 978-1-5036-0938-9
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Stanford Studies in Middle Eas; Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures; Stanford Studies in Middle Eas
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Palästina, Israel, Geschichte des Nahen und Mittleren Ostens, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Asiatische Geschichte, Nichtstaatliche Organisationen (NGOs)