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...Gil Hochberg Abstract As a contemporary concept, heritage bridges legal discourse and ethical discourse, national affiliations and a global imaginary, colonial pasts and neocolonial presents. The term often circulates beliefs in cultural authenticity, collective memory, and historical merit under...

...Figure 4. Portrayal of the Omani symbols of heritage in the body of a generic fortress form at Qurum National Park, Muscat. Photograph by the author. ...

... sensitive relation to the dynamics of the Cold War in the 1950s and ’60s. It then discusses how these two Nalanda insitutions speak to issues of heritage diplomacy and the politics of revival in contemporary India and beyond. [email protected] [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by Duke...

... follows a group of local Palestinian activists who consciously chose the square to stage protests, thus reclaiming Arab Jaffa's material heritage and directly challenging recent histories of spatial expropriation by the Israeli state, the Tel Aviv municipality, and real estate developers. The analysis...

... Islamic awakening has several explanations: (1) the cultural heritage beginning with the end of the Rashidi era of the Abbasids when the backward streams erased rational thinking and judgment from public life; (2) colonialism , beginning with the arrival of Napoleon in Egypt and the rise of nationalist...

...Alexander Jabbari This article makes an argument for literary modernity as a shared discourse produced through scholarly exchange between Iranians and Indians reworking their shared Persianate literary heritage, considering literary history as an important and perhaps overlooked site...

...—it then explores heritage-making practices that manage to challenge or subvert this compulsion to foundation. Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 Pakistan heritage Lahore Yasmeen Lari street theater architecture public history The essays in this themed section all approach, via...

.... The lack of a public film repository denied Pakistan not only its colonial heritage but also the systematic preservation of its postcolonial film culture. In the absence of a state archive, what has emerged in the country is a democratic archive consisting of independent collectors, magazine proprietors...

..., and prioritizing the preservation of inhabited spaces over abandoned ones. By shedding light on these contradictions within Egyptian public discourse, this article underscores the significance of acknowledging and celebrating Egyptian Jewish heritage, which continues to shape society today. 9. Shamir, “Ha...

... appear alongside stone versions of paintings from the Mogao Caves at Dunhuang and Alchi in Ladakh. This article examines how this replica stupa and the surrounding theme park allow the new state of Telangana not only to articulate its claim to the Buddhist heritage that is now shared with the state...

...Can Dalyan Abstract Heritage politics in Turkey came under global scrutiny in July 2020 following the conversion of the Hagia Sophia Museum in Istanbul back into a mosque, and then again in October 2020 after the confiscation of ancient and modern seed collections residing at the British Institute...

... generated norms of citizenship, subjectivity, and jurisdiction that Grovogui associates with cosmopolitanism. The essay proceeds from a historiography that is necessarily a conjecture, a logical construction based on incomplete information. The scholar of cosmopolitanism divorced from its European heritage...

... spaces. The article proposes that the physical location of the dead conjoined with individual hagiographies is key to disrupting or reifying nationalist narratives. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 transnational memorials politics heritage O Sayyed...

... across national, ethnic, religious, linguistic, and doctrinal lines. [email protected] [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 homelands and diasporas modern India Buddhism material culture heritage This special section of Comparative Studies...

... of refugeehood: the taking up of (physical) space by those who are not granted any (political) space. Gil Hochberg's contribution turns to the concept of heritage and the nomination by Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency (DAAR) of the West Bank's Dheisheh Refugee Camp to the UNESCO World Heritage List...

... city.   Istanbul’s mosques, fountains, palaces, and cemeteries were so prevalent, and so rich of with the city’s undesired heritage as the former imperial center...

... ­ Pers his special section on the cultural heritage of the Indo-­Persianate world addresses topics on language, literature, mysticism, religion, and ritual, and offers an occasion to revisit the long relationship among the kindred people who lived in greater Iran...