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Abstract
At the national scale, Lydd is one of the “mixed cities” in Israel; however, to the Lydd municipality, the city is an “ancient historical city.” Through a discourse analysis of how the Lydd Municipality uses heritage as a tool to construct the city’s image as an “ancient historical city,” this article highlights how the two disparate urban identities align in producing and maintaining histories of colonial erasure. To the Lydd Municipality, the image of Lydd as an “ancient historical city” begins with the Shelby White and Leon Levy Lod Mosaic Archaeological Center, a pristine modern structure standing only a few blocks away from several abandoned and haphazardly cordoned-off ruins from the Ottoman era. Looking to municipal rhetorics and urban development plans for several of the heritage sites in the northeastern portion of the city, heritage is understood as a tool through which national priorities, municipal entrepreneurialism, and colonial erasure coalesce.
在全国范围内,Lydd是以色列的“混合城市”之一;然而,对Lydd市政府来说,这座城市是一座“古老的历史城市”。通过对Lydd市政当局如何利用遗产作为工具来构建城市形象作为一个“古老的历史城市”的话语分析,本文强调了两个不同的城市身份如何在产生和维护殖民抹除的历史中保持一致。对于Lydd市政府来说,Lydd作为一个“古老的历史城市”的形象始于Shelby White和Leon Levy Lod马赛克考古中心,这是一个原始的现代建筑,距离奥斯曼时代的几个废弃和随意封锁的废墟只有几个街区。看看城市东北部几个遗产遗址的市政修辞和城市发展计划,遗产被理解为一种工具,通过它,国家优先事项、市政企业家精神和殖民主义消除结合在一起。
期刊介绍:
The Journal of Social Archaeology is a fully peer reviewed international journal that promotes interdisciplinary research focused on social approaches in archaeology, opening up new debates and areas of exploration. It engages with and contributes to theoretical developments from other related disciplines such as feminism, queer theory, postcolonialism, social geography, literary theory, politics, anthropology, cognitive studies and behavioural science. It is explicitly global in outlook with temporal parameters from prehistory to recent periods. As well as promoting innovative social interpretations of the past, it also encourages an exploration of contemporary politics and heritage issues.