On Ruins: The Art and Politics of Architectural Heritage

Auji, Hala

doi:10.1386/ijia_00062_7

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“…Religions 2022, 13, 715 2 of 11 and place regeneration (Wise and Jimura 2021) offer wide-angle insights on benefits and opportunities for community-centered heritage tourism. The UAE is fertile in examples that simultaneously integrate dynamics common to the MENA region (Seyfi and Hall 2021) and others that are profoundly local, with regard to narratives on the use of architectural heritage (Auji 2022), historic building restoration (Somhegyi 2019), sustainable conservation practice (Best 2022) and their integration in cultural tourism proposals for specific local destinations (De Man 2018;Longart and Iankova 2022).…”

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Two Pre-Islamic Places of Worship in the Tourism Landscape of the UAE

Man

2022

Religions

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As suggested by the title, this paper explores two of the several archaeological sites that configure religious loci in the territory of the current United Arab Emirates. It does so by assessing their relevance, by refining their nature and historical context, and by analyzing their positioning as components of a tourism mix. The core research question is whether or not integration is accomplished. Both structures are quite well known in the academic literature and underwent excavation and conservation investments that allow their proper use and promotion. Discussion and conclusions identify challenges for achieving an appropriate integration with conditioning supply factors.

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Two Pre-Islamic Places of Worship in the Tourism Landscape of the UAE

Man

2022

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Postsocialist Statuary Politics in Romania and Bulgaria: An Ambivalent Socialist Heritage

Preda

2023

Comparative Southeast European Studies

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Using an approach situated at the intersection of cultural memory studies and (critical) heritage studies, with a focus on the ambivalent socialist heritage of socialist statues and monuments and their changing role in postsocialist public spaces, this article engages with the postcommunist strategies of reckoning with the past in Romania and Bulgaria in the period 1990–2020. Comparing the kinds of monumental memory of communism that were established in these countries, the author discusses how each dealt with their ambivalent socialist heritage through a public memory policy comprising three combined strategies: removal; preservation; and the replacement of communist heroes with anticommunist counter-monuments. The author concludes that stances toward the socialist heritage manifest various tensions in terms of the types of statues that were removed or, alternately, allowed to remain; of the opposition between local and national decisions as well as between the official approach and citizens’ perspectives; and, finally, of aesthetic versus political criteria.

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On Ruins: The Art and Politics of Architectural Heritage

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Two Pre-Islamic Places of Worship in the Tourism Landscape of the UAE

Two Pre-Islamic Places of Worship in the Tourism Landscape of the UAE

Postsocialist Statuary Politics in Romania and Bulgaria: An Ambivalent Socialist Heritage

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