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Heritage in West Asia
About
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The projects featured here are situated within the geographical expanse broadly recognised as the Iranian Plateau, encompassing parts of West and Central Asia.
To date, these initiatives are focused particularly in West Asia. The term "West Asia" is employed strategically to minimize the value-laden connotations often associated with labels like the Middle East or Persianate. This designation facilitates a nuanced acknowledgment of the historical and contemporary influences exerted by Turkic, Persian, Arabic, and Russian (European) civilizations on the region’s cultural dynamics.
These projects examine historical imaginations in this region and investigate how these imaginations are used to reshape regional and sub-regional identities at various scales. These identities frequently transcend nation-state boundaries and reflect a complex interplay of cultural and historical legacies.
Questions
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In this geographical context, there are a number of questions that are worth probing. They include:
- How is the past used in justifying the present national and regional relationships?
- In what ways do these justifications manifest in political, territorial, or cultural terms?
- How does contemporary culture shape and get shaped by historical conceptions, and how are these conceptions realised through both official and unofficial heritage?
- What are the trans-border forms of imagining the past, and how does the existence of such phenomena influence identity formations?
- In what ways are borders conceptualised and re-conceptualised in light of historical narratives?
- What conceptual frameworks and methodologies are most effective for analysing these relationships with the past in contemporary contexts?
People
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People
Ali Mozaffari, expert in heritage studies, architecture and urbanism (Academia webpage, CV)
Other collaborators (and co-authors, in alphabetical order):
Dr Ali Akbar, expert in Islamic Studies and International Relations (National Centre for Contemporary Islamic Studies),
Dr James Barry, anthropologist and expert in Iranian and Armenian Studies (Academia profile)
Dr José Antonio González Zarandona, art historian and expert in iconoclasm, heritage studies, and cinema ( Reader in Heritage Studies, Newcastle University, Academia profile)
Associate Professor David C. Harvey, Historical geographer, expert in geography and heritage studies (Aarhus University profile)
Professor James M. Jasper, writer and sociologist, Graduate Centre of the City University of New York (profile, blog)
Associate Professor Tod Jones is a geographer and Indonesianist with expertise in heritage studies and Indigenous Australian heritage studies (Curtin University profile)
Mr. Bakhtyar Lotfi, an architect and social anthropologist, functions as a cultural analyst with extensive fieldwork training and experience.
Dr. Mandana Tishehyar, Faculty at the Department of Regional Studies, Allameh Tabataba'i University Tehran (ATU).
Associate Professor Nigel Westbrook, architect and architectural historian, School of Design, University of Western Australia.
Professor Tim Winter, Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Sociologist and expert in heritage studies and the Silk Roads, School of Anthropology and Sociology, University of Western Australia (profile).
About This Site
This website is made by Ali Mozaffari (M.Arch., Ph.D.) and contains various strands of research and collaboration in which he has been involved and are related to cultural heritage, history, and architecture in West Asia.
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