Heritage and the Cultural Struggle for Palestine

by Chiara De Cesari

In 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503609383
• ISBN13: 9781503609389
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"