Archive Wars: The Politics of History in Saudi Arabia

The production of history is premised on the selective erasure of certain pasts and the artifacts that...
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Author: Rosie Bsheer
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Archive Wars: The Politics of History in Saudi Arabia by Bsheer, Rosie

Archive Wars: The Politics of History in Saudi Arabia

$71.15

Archive Wars: The Politics of History in Saudi Arabia

$71.15
Author: Rosie Bsheer
Format: Paperback
Language: English

The production of history is premised on the selective erasure of certain pasts and the artifacts that stand witness to them. From the elision of archival documents to the demolition of sacred and secular spaces, each act of destruction is also an act of state building. Following the 1991 Gulf War, political elites in Saudi Arabia pursued these dual projects of historical commemoration and state formation with greater fervor to enforce their postwar vision for state, nation, and economy. Seeing Islamist movements as the leading threat to state power, they sought to de-center religion from educational, cultural, and spatial policies.

With this book, Rosie Bsheer explores the increasing secularization of the postwar Saudi state and how it manifested in assembling a national archive and reordering urban space in Riyadh and Mecca. The elites' project was rife with ironies: in Riyadh, they employed world-renowned experts to fashion an imagined history, while at the same time in Mecca they were overseeing the obliteration of a thousand-year-old topography and its replacement with commercial megaprojects. Archive Wars shows how the Saudi state's response to the challenges of the Gulf War served to historicize a national space, territorialize a national history, and ultimately refract both through new modes of capital accumulation.



Author: Rosie Bsheer
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 09/22/2020
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9781503612570


Review Citation(s):
Choice 06/01/2021

About the Author
Rosie Bsheer is Assistant Professor of History at Harvard University.

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