Heritage and Healing in Syria and Iraq

This book explores what to do with heritage that has been destroyed in conflict in Syria and Iraq. Drawing on research into trauma and trauma recovery, it challenges existing modes of cultural heritage reconstruction and envisages gentler, creative and ethically-driven ways to use heritage for healing.

About the author

Zena Kamash is Senior Lecturer in Roman Archaeology at Royal Holloway, University of London

Summary

This book explores what to do with heritage that has been destroyed in conflict in Syria and Iraq. Drawing on research into trauma and trauma recovery, it challenges existing modes of cultural heritage reconstruction and envisages gentler, creative and ethically-driven ways to use heritage for healing. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Zena Kamash, Zena (Lecturer in Roman Archaeology and Ar Kamash, Zena (Lecturer in Roman Archaeology and Art) Kamash, Kamash Zena
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2024
• EAN: 9781526140838
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-4083-8
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Social Archaeology and Material Worlds
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disasters & Disaster Relief, Syria, ART / Museum Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Social impact of disasters, Iraq, Archaeology by period / region, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies, Middle & Near Eastern archaeology, Social impact of disasters / accidents (natural or man-made)