Archive wars : the politics of history in Saudi Arabia /
Bsheer, Rosie,
Archive wars : the politics of history in Saudi Arabia / Rosie Bsheer. - Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, (c)2020. - 1 online resource (xxvi, 379 pages) : illustrations, map - Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction : the archive question -- Occluded pasts : history and the making of the modern Saudi state -- A state with no archive : control without hegemony -- Amnesiac nation : assembling the past in post-Gulf War Saudi Arabia -- Heritage as war : Secular infrastructure and the remaking of Riyadh -- Bulldozing the past : history, modernity, and urban redevelopment in Mecca -- Conclusion : the violence of history.
"This project examines how Saudi Arabian officials and economic elites used state archives, historical preservation, and urban redevelopment to consolidate power after the Gulf War. It shows how the Saudi regime attempted to shift the terrain of domestic opposition from the political to the historical and from the streets to institutions, transforming the nation's landscape into a revenue-generating asset"--
9781503612587
2019051740
Archives--History.--Saudi Arabia
Historic preservation--Saudi Arabia.
Urban renewal--Saudi Arabia.
Electronic Books.
DS222 / .A734 2020 DS222
Archive wars : the politics of history in Saudi Arabia / Rosie Bsheer. - Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, (c)2020. - 1 online resource (xxvi, 379 pages) : illustrations, map - Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction : the archive question -- Occluded pasts : history and the making of the modern Saudi state -- A state with no archive : control without hegemony -- Amnesiac nation : assembling the past in post-Gulf War Saudi Arabia -- Heritage as war : Secular infrastructure and the remaking of Riyadh -- Bulldozing the past : history, modernity, and urban redevelopment in Mecca -- Conclusion : the violence of history.
"This project examines how Saudi Arabian officials and economic elites used state archives, historical preservation, and urban redevelopment to consolidate power after the Gulf War. It shows how the Saudi regime attempted to shift the terrain of domestic opposition from the political to the historical and from the streets to institutions, transforming the nation's landscape into a revenue-generating asset"--
9781503612587
2019051740
Archives--History.--Saudi Arabia
Historic preservation--Saudi Arabia.
Urban renewal--Saudi Arabia.
Electronic Books.
DS222 / .A734 2020 DS222