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Representing the Nation

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Abu Dhabi
Al Thani
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Arabian Peninsula
Arabic Language
Archaeological Sites
art
Bahrain National Museum
Barbar Temple
bin
Bin Qassim Al Thani Museum
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cultural representation
Dilmun Civilization
Dubai Museum
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exhibition theory
Faisal Bin Qassim Al Thani
Father Emir
GCC
GCC Region
gulf
Gulf states identity
hamad
heritage construction
islamic
Islamic Art
khalifa
museum studies
museums
Muslim World
Nation Building
national
National Museum
national museum identity formation
Oral Histories
oral history practice
Qatar National
Qatar National Museum
Qatari Identity
Rentier State
Sheikh Jasim
states
UNESCO World Heritage List

Product details

  • ISBN 9781138913578
  • Weight: 500g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 13 Jun 2016
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Description

The 1970s saw the emergence and subsequent proliferation across the Arabian Peninsula of ‘national museums’, institutions aimed at creating social cohesion and affiliation to the state within a disparate population. Representing the Nation examines the wide-ranging use of exhibitionary forms of national identity projection via consideration of their motivations, implications (current and future), possible historical backgrounds, official and unofficial meanings, and meanings for both the user/visitor and the multiple creators. The book responds to, due to the importance placed on tradition, heritage and national identity across all the states of the Peninsula, and the growth of re-imagined and new museums, the need for far greater discussion and research in these areas.
About
Pamela Erskine-Loftus is director of The Media Majlis at Northwestern University in Qatar, a forthcoming academic museum on journalism, and media. Victoria Penziner Hightower is an Assistant Professor at the University of North Georgia—Dahlonega. She received her PhD from Florida State University in 2011 and holds two Master’s Degrees in History (Florida State University, 2004) and Near Eastern Studies (University of Arizona, 2006). Mariam Ibrahim Al-Mulla is an Art History Assistant Professor and Academic Coordinator in the History Programme at Qatar University, and in 2015 was a recipient of the national Education Excellence award