Toward a Decolonial and Denationalized Public Archaeology
Community Archaeology in Israel/Palestine - Raz Kletter
Raphael Greenberg [+]
Tel Aviv University
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Raphael Greenberg is Professor in the Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures at Tel Aviv University. He writes on the archaeology of the Levantine Bronze Age and on the impact of archaeology in the present. His most recent book, co-authored with Yannis Hamilakis, is Archaeology, Nation, and Race: Confronting the Past, Decolonizing the Future in Greece and Israel (Cambridge 2022).
Description
This brief reflection comments on the inability of public- or community-archaeology to escape the “imperial durabilities”, which infuse the structure and practice of the discipline, and on the potential of a democratized Contemporary Archaeology to subvert traditional epistemic and institutional power structures.