Occupation Debris: Participatory Practices and Decolonisation of Archaeology in Palestine-Israel

占领残骸：巴勒斯坦-以色列考古学的参与性实践和非殖民化

• 批准号: AH/X00077X/1
• 负责人: Noam Leshem
• 金额: $ 86.35万
• 依托单位: Durham University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FX00077X%2F1
• 关键词: Occupation; Debris; Participatory; Practices; Decolonisation; Occupation; Debris; Participatory; Practices; Decolonisation

Can displaced communities, who are physically unable to access their ancestral lands, renew a sense of ownership over their tangible cultural heritage and assert their agency over its use? Occupation Debris directly grapples with this challenge and devises new ways to address it. It does so through a participatory process that brings together community members and an international group of scholars. The team will assemble a unique cultural heritage repository of one village devastated by war and neglect, will jointly study this new collection and seek new ways through which it can potentially be used. Our focus is on one Palestinian village-the Shi'ite village of Qadas in the Galilee region of Israel. During the 1948 Arab-Jewish War, the entire population of the village was forced to flee across the border to Lebanon and were never allowed to return. The village was looted and subsequently razed. In 2020, the first ever archaeological excavation of a destroyed Palestinian village began on the site, bringing to life a new material archive documenting Arab rural history in the region and its abrupt end. However, unlike other contexts where indigenous groups are able to use archaeology to assert agency over their ancestral land, recover their material culture and determine its use, many Palestinians remain displaced beyond the current borders of Israel. In practice, they are unable to access their former homeland, let alone initiate in-situ research processes or reassert ownership over their tangible heritage. They are far from unique: From Somalia to Myanmar, displaced communities around the world face similar challenges.Occupation Debris seeks practices and tools that can enable displaced communities to remotely reassert their agency over ancestral lands and material heritage. In close collaboration with a group of young descendants of Qadas who reside in Lebanon, the project team assembles a comprehensive historical and material archive of a destroyed Palestinian village, studies its significance, and considers how this archive might be further used as a public resource. We place particular emphasis on the role that younger members of displaced communities ought to be given in cultural heritage research, seeing them as its custodians in the future. Our participatory approach fosters a genuine process for the co-production of knowledge, empowering key stakeholders that have been thus far excluded and emphasising experiences that have been ignored. The research team comprises geographers, archaeologists, historians and anthropologists, as well as regional researchers and community partners. With scholars from Israel-Palestine, Lebanon and the UK, the project is able to expand the historical and geographical scope of research, reaching communities and repositories that have never been considered together. During a year-long pilot phase, the team reviewed relevant data sources and archives; established preliminary contact with communities in Israel-Palestine, Lebanon and Jordan; and designed a digital platform to facilitate remote participatory research and future dissemination. The stakes of this project are high. The political and cultural environment in which this research takes place is still laden with suspicion and enmities. Many of the issues we discuss are not consigned to history; for many communities, they remain part of their contemporary challenges. Yet the potential of this project far exceeds its risks: It entails the possibility of opening new scholarly frontiers across cultural geography, contemporary archaeology and settler colonial studies, while devising new pathways for displaced communities across the world to access hard-to-reach cultural heritage, and potentially determine its uses for future generations.

在身体上无法进入其祖先土地的流离失所社区可以更新其对有形文化遗产的所有权并在其使用方面主张其代理？职业碎片直接应对这一挑战，并设计了解决问题的新方法。它通过参与过程来汇集社区成员和国际学者团体。该团队将组装一个独特的文化遗产存储库，其中一个被战争和忽视摧毁的村庄，将共同研究这个新收藏，并寻求可以使用它的新方法。我们的重点是一个巴勒斯坦村庄 - 以色列加利利地区的卡达斯的什叶派村庄。在1948年的阿拉伯 - 犹太战争期间，该村的整个人口被迫逃到边境到黎巴嫩，从未被允许返回。村庄被掠夺并随后被夷为平地。 2020年，该遗址开始了有史以来第一次对破坏的巴勒斯坦村庄的考古发掘，使新的材料档案记录了该地区的阿拉伯农村历史及其突然的结局。但是，与其他环境不同的是，土著群体能够利用考古学在其祖先的土地上主张代理，恢复其物质文化并确定其使用情况，许多巴勒斯坦人仍在以色列当前边界之外流离失所。在实践中，他们无法访问其前祖国，更不用说启动原位研究过程，或者对他们的切实遗产重新所有权。他们远非独特：从索马里到缅甸，世界各地流离失所的社区都面临着类似的挑战。占领碎片寻求实践和工具，这些实践和工具可以使流离失所的社区能够远程重新确定其代理机构，而不是祖先的土地和物质遗产。在与居住在黎巴嫩的卡达斯的一群年轻后代密切合作，该项目团队组装了一个全面的历史和物质档案，这些档案是一个被摧毁的巴勒斯坦村庄，研究其意义，并考虑如何进一步将该档案用作公共资源。我们特别强调了流离失所社区的年轻成员在文化遗产研究中的作用，将来将其视为其保管人。我们的参与性方法促进了一个真正的知识共同生产过程，赋予了迄今已排除在外的主要利益相关者的能力，并强调了被忽视的经验。研究团队包括地理学家，考古学家，历史学家和人类学家，以及区域研究人员和社区合作伙伴。借助来自以色列 - 巴勒斯坦，黎巴嫩和英国的学者，该项目能够扩大研究的历史和地理范围，到达从未共同考虑的社区和存储库。在为期一年的飞行员阶段，该团队审查了相关的数据源和档案。与以色列 - 巴勒斯坦，黎巴嫩和约旦的社区建立了初步接触；并设计了一个数字平台，以促进远程参与性研究和未来传播。该项目的赌注很高。这项研究发生的政治和文化环境仍然充满了怀疑和仇恨。我们讨论的许多问题都没有委托历史。对于许多社区，它们仍然是当代挑战的一部分。然而，该项目的潜力远远超出了其风险：它需要在文化地理，当代考古学和定居者殖民研究之间开放新的学术前沿，同时为全世界流离失所的社区设计了新的途径，以获得难以到达的文化遗产，并有可能确定其对后代的使用。