Title & Author:

Representing the nation : heritage, museums, national narratives, and identity in the Arab Gulf States / edited by Pamela Erskine-Loftus, Victoria Penziner Hightower, and Mariam Ibrahim Al-Mulla.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.

Description:

xv, 208 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

Routledge research in museum studies ; 3

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I. Sensibilities / 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 II. Museuming / Mariam Ibrahim Al-Mulla -- 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 III. Projection / 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.

ISBN:

9781138913578 (hardback ; alk. paper)
113891357X (hardback ; alk. paper)
(ebook)
9781315691350
1315691353

Subject:

Museums Arab countries.
Museums Political aspects Arab countries.
National characteristics, Arab.
Group identity Arab countries.
Arabs
Musées États arabes.
Musées Aspect politique États arabes.
Arabes.
Identité collective États arabes.
Group identity.
Museums.
Museums Political aspects.
Museum
Nationalmuseum
Nationenbildung
Museumspädagogik
Arab countries.

Added entries:

Erskine-Loftus, Pamela, editor.
Hightower, Victoria Penziner, editor.
Al-Mulla, Mariam Ibrahim, editor.
Routledge research in museum studies ; 3.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 292768
Call No.: BIB 237211
Status: Available