Politics

Meskell, Lynn; Preucel, Robert W.

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“…These sorts of perspectives are much the same as those concerning the situation in North America (McGuire, 1992(McGuire, , 2004Rubertone, 2000;Trigger, 1980;though cf. Lilley, 2000b for a qualification), and both reflect broader concerns about archaeology in the colonial and postcolonial worlds (Clifford, 2004;Gosden, 2004;Meskell, 1998;Meskell and Preucel, 2004;Scham, 2001;Trigger, 1980Trigger, , 1984. My interest in this article is to add a dimension to such positions by considering the situation through the lens of contemporary diaspora theory.…”

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Archaeology, diaspora and decolonization

Lilley

2006

Journal of Social Archaeology

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Archaeologists in settler societies need to find theoretically well-founded ways of understanding the sociopolitical milieux in which they work if they are to deal sensibly and sensitively with the colonizers as well as the colonized in their communities. This article explores one avenue that the author has found helpful in a number of contexts. He advances the proposition that, with certain qualifications, the social conditions of settler nations might usefully be approached as the products of a single social condition - diaspora - in a manifestation that is unique to such societies because it positions indigenous peoples as well as settlers as diasporic.

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Archaeology, diaspora and decolonization

Lilley

2006

Journal of Social Archaeology

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“…In the past, we have asked who or what sorts of institutions come to perform the labor of recognition within multicultural democracies (Rowlands, 2002), and we have asked, what does it mean for those for whom socioeconomic well-being is predicated on performing rather than celebrating difference (Ahmad, 1987;Ebron, 2002;Ndebele, 1996)? My interests center on heritage's troubling 'thickening' of citizenship, and I think that archaeology should take a second look at the politics of recognition as they come to imbricate with historical claims, in order to better re-evaluate the implications for the sorts of ethical considerations that have always been so central to our disciplinary mandate (Meskell and Preucel, 2004;Shepherd, 2002b;Wylie, 2004).…”

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“…My interests center on heritage's troubling 'thickening' of citizenship, and I think that archaeology should take a second look at the politics of recognition as they come to imbricate with historical claims, in order to better re-evaluate the implications for the sorts of ethical considerations that have always been so central to our disciplinary mandate (Meskell and Preucel, 2004;Shepherd, 2002b;Wylie, 2004).…”

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Heritage-making and political identity

Weiss

2007

Journal of Social Archaeology

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In this essay, I argue that the concept of heritage today, as we have come to understand it through the lens of the politics of recognition and through various tourism-oriented national and global programs of public recognition, contains within itself a number of inherent structural logics — logics which suggest that projects labeled heritage will be pulled in directions which might run counter to the hopes and expectations of those invoking the term. We must, therefore, be cognizant of the fact that at the same moment that heritage discourse enables one mode of conceiving of — and potentially celebrating — historical persons and events, it also disables other forms and modes. We must take seriously what these modes are and what are the implications of their being bracketed. This essay, then, is a call for scholars to consider carefully the fundamental political rationalities at the hearts of our central concepts if we are to understand more fully what is at stake in choosing them.

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Politics

Cited by 2 publications

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Archaeology, diaspora and decolonization

Archaeology, diaspora and decolonization

Heritage-making and political identity

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