‘There is no heritage in Qatar’: Orientalism, colonialism and other problematic histories

Exell, Karen; Rico, Trinidad

doi:10.1080/00438243.2013.852069

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“…As the museology has been developed on the basis of the place's history, the team had to take into account the neighbourhood's diverse heritage. This process contrasts with that of the National Museum, inaugurated a few years after the country's independence, which proposed a romanticized national story focused on the ruling tribe, and on the dominant Bedouin identity (Exell & Rico 2013). The project that stands out the most is the Bin Jelmood House, which not only deals with the difficult past of slave trade, but also with modern slavery (Al Mulla 2017).…”

Section: Recognising "Old Diversity"mentioning

confidence: 99%

Global Cities and Cultural Diversity Governance: Comparing Doha and Singapore

Molho

2019

SSRN Journal

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The rise of global cities has raised multiple questions regarding the governance of diversity. While they are often portrayed as spaces of ungovernable global flows and as catalysts of the disappearance of national identities, this paper aims to analyse these cities' actions and strategies to govern their cultural diversity and defend a renewed conception of the national. I combine an analysis of outward-looking strategies that promote their cultural diversity on the global cultural field, and of inward-looking strategies that attempt to project their plural identity in the urban space. I compare two cities, Doha and Singapore, which have emerged as major centres of the global economy and offer a perspective that differs from the large Western cities where the notion of global city was initially coined. The affirmation of Doha and Singapore as global cities does not go along with a process of weakening of the nationstate, but on the contrary takes part in a logic of nation building and nation branding. The paper analyses how local actors negotiate this dialectic between the global and the national. Firstly, I show that they have put transnational regional networks and identities at the centre of the promotion of these cities as cultural hub. Secondly, I show that the recognition of these cities' diverse heritage and its display in the urban landscape, go in parallel with an increasing spatial exclusion of recent migrants.

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Section: Recognising "Old Diversity"mentioning

confidence: 99%

Global Cities and Cultural Diversity Governance: Comparing Doha and Singapore

Molho

2019

SSRN Journal

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“…Examples of work in this area include critiques of policy (Koziol, 2007(Koziol, , 2008(Koziol, , 2012 and the negotiation of meanings in the creation of a specific heritage rhetoric in Western and non-Western contexts (Asif & Rico, 2017;Lafrenz-Samuels & Rico, 2015;Rico, 2015Rico, , 2017aRico, , 2017b. More specifically, Trinidad Rico (Exell & Rico, 2013Rico, 2008Rico, , 2017cRico, , 2017d, explores power structures in the control of heritage meanings through a colonial lens in the Arabian Peninsula including the fear of Islamic heritage by dominant global cultural groups (Rico, 2014a(Rico, , 2014b, and the colonialism that is inherent in defining and planning for "heritage at risk" (Rico, 2014c(Rico, , 2016a.…”

Section: Topics Critical Of the Preservation Enterprise (Tcpe)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Does intra-disciplinary historic preservation scholarship address the exigent issues of practice? Exploring the character and impact of preservation knowledge production in relation to critical heritage studies, equity, and social justice

Wells

2020

International Journal of Heritage Studies

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This content analysis was based on the analysis of paper, book, and edited book publications that were self-defined as contributing to preservation scholarship. The four primary objectives were to: 1) identify the authors of this group; 2) define what a "scholarly" publication is-only these publications were allowed to form the corpus of "preservation scholarship"; 3) collect every single "scholarly" publication produced by these authors, and 4) perform a content analysis on this preservation scholarship, dividing it into salient categories and themes. In order to identify the authors of preservation scholarship, faculty were selected from National Council for Preservation Education (NCPE) member degree programs who were full-time and on the tenure-track or already tenured with a 50% or more teaching appointment in an historic preservation degree program (undergraduate or graduate). Program web sites, emails, and phone calls to departments were used to identify full-time, tenure-track and tenured faculty with a 50% or more teaching appointment to an historic preservation program. Where departments did not share details on the distribution of faculty teaching responsibilities, the relevant college or university course schedule listing was consulted to identify which courses each preservation faculty member taught across several semesters. Programs housed in institutions that do not use the tenure system, such as Boston Architectural College, Pratt, and Savannah College of Art and Design, were not included.

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“…The extent to which oral history is the most appropriate medium to document Gulf life has been called into question. Exell & Rico (2013) point out that oral history projects:…”

Section: Oral Histories In the Museumsmentioning

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“Seeking Information from the Lips of People”: oral history in the archives of Qatar and the Gulf region

Ahmed

2018

Arch Sci

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The turn to oral history in Qatar and the Arabian (also known as Persian) Gulf is not a rejection of traditional archival authority as has been the case in other parts of the world. In the Gulf, oral history has been embraced out of a desire to fill the silences of the largely unwritten record attributable to previous low levels of literacy and strong oral traditions in the region. Today, oral history is seen as the best method to capture details about traditional ways of life during the pre-oil era. After discussing archival concerns about the evidentiary nature of oral histories, this paper explores how it has come to be a crucial documentation tool in the Gulf, adapted to the specific nation building and cultural heritage priorities of the region.

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‘There is no heritage in Qatar’: Orientalism, colonialism and other problematic histories

Cited by 54 publications

References 28 publications

Global Cities and Cultural Diversity Governance: Comparing Doha and Singapore

Global Cities and Cultural Diversity Governance: Comparing Doha and Singapore

Does intra-disciplinary historic preservation scholarship address the exigent issues of practice? Exploring the character and impact of preservation knowledge production in relation to critical heritage studies, equity, and social justice

“Seeking Information from the Lips of People”: oral history in the archives of Qatar and the Gulf region

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