Heritage and the Cultural Struggle for Palestine

Stanford University Press

Heritage and the Cultural Struggle for PalestineAuthor(s): Chiara De Cesari\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Stanford University Press, United States\nImprint: Stanford University Press\nISBN-13: 9781503600515, 978-1503600515\nSynopsis\nIn 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.\n\n With this book, Chiara De Cesari examines these Palestinian heritage projectsnotably the Hebron R.