Representing the nation : heritage, museums, national narratives, and identity in the Arab Gulf States
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Representing the nation : heritage, museums, national narratives, and identity in the Arab Gulf States
(Routledge research in museum studies)
Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2016
- : hbk
Available at 3 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The 1970s saw the emergence and subsequent proliferation across the Arabian Peninsula of 'national museums', institutions aimed at creating social cohesion and affiliation to the state within a disparate population. Representing the Nation examines the wide-ranging use of exhibitionary forms of national identity projection via consideration of their motivations, implications (current and future), possible historical backgrounds, official and unofficial meanings, and meanings for both the user/visitor and the multiple creators. The book responds to, due to the importance placed on tradition, heritage and national identity across all the states of the Peninsula, and the growth of re-imagined and new museums, the need for far greater discussion and research in these areas.
Table of Contents
Figures and Tables
Acknowledgements
Editors and Contributors
General Introduction: National Representations or Representations of the Nation: museums, heritage, identity and narratives - Pamela Erskine-Loftus, Victoria Penziner Hightower, and Mariam Ibrahim Al-Mulla
Part 1: Sensibilities
Part 1 Introduction - Pamela Erskine-Loftus
Bringing it Back Home: Redefining Islamic Art in Saudi Arabia - Idries Trevathan and Manal Alghannam
Locating Qatar on the World Stage: Museums, Foreign Expertise and the Construction of Qatar's Contemporary Identity - Karen Exell
Context and Identity as Generators of Concept: Four Examples from Bahrain - Kamila Bielinska-Basmaji and Marwan Basmaji
We're All Qataris Here: The Nation-Building Narrative of the National Museum of Qatar - Jocelyn Sage Mitchell
Part 2: Museuming
Part 2 Introduction - Mariam Ibrahim Al-Mulla
One Nation, One Myth and Two Museums: Heritage, Architecture and Culture as Tools for Assembling Identity in Qatar - Ali A. Alraouf
Building the Past: Archaeology and National Development in the Gulf - Andrew Petersen
Oral History and National Stories: Theory and Practice in the GCC - Rachel Teskey and Norah Alkhamis
Qatar: Cultivating 'The Citizen' of the Futuristic State - Marwa Maziad
Part 3: Projection
Part 3 Introduction - Victoria Penziner Hightower
All the World's a Stage Designed by Zaha Hadid: How the Gulf's New Mega-theatres Attempt to Promote 'Global' Identities - Katherine Hennessey
National Identity and Performativity at Bahrain National Museum - Hae Won Jeong
The Saudi Arabian National Museum: Unexpected Collections and Narratives? - Virginia Cassola
Time, Space and Narrative in Emirati Museums - Matthew MacLean
Bibliography
Index
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