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Archaeological heritage in the age of digital colonialism

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dc.abstract.enDigital archaeologists claim that their practices have proven to be an important tool for mediating conflict, ensuring that the digital turn in archaeology entails engaging in current political issues. This can be questioned by analysing a copy of the Syrian Arch of Triumph. The original was destroyed in 2015. A year later, a copy was carved out of Egyptian marble; the replica was constructed thanks to digital documentation, which allowed archaeologists to create a 3D model. The arch was placed in various Western locations; however, it never reached Syria. Hybridity, the cultural and political significance of the arch’s replica and its ‘Grand Tour’ invite us to think about different interpretive layers of this artefact of ideological discourse (ontological, epistemological, ethical). In this paper, the replica of the Syrian arch will be analysed through the frameworks of post-colonial theory and technology studies. Both perspectives provide an insight into promising advantages and alarming drawbacks of such digital practices. This paper argues that the case of a copy of the Syrian Arch of Triumph on the one hand reflects the contemporary colonial technocracy in heritage politics (an ethical dimension), and on the other demonstrates that an ideological aspect of its digital reconstruction emerges from a speculative anticipation of what might constitute the universal value of world heritage in the future (an onto-epistemological dimension).
dc.affiliationUniwersytet Warszawski
dc.contributor.authorStobiecka, Monika
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-24T16:55:43Z
dc.date.available2024-01-24T16:55:43Z
dc.date.copyright2020-11-13
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.accesstimeBEFORE_PUBLICATION
dc.description.financePublikacja bezkosztowa
dc.description.number2
dc.description.versionFINAL_PUBLISHED
dc.description.volume27
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/S1380203820000239
dc.identifier.issn1380-2038
dc.identifier.urihttps://repozytorium.uw.edu.pl//handle/item/101075
dc.identifier.weblinkhttps://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/archaeological-dialogues/article/archaeological-heritage-in-the-age-of-digital-colonialism/656C0B0B42262DE846FBFAD34654397F
dc.languageeng
dc.pbn.affiliationarchaeology
dc.relation.ispartofArchaeological Dialogues
dc.relation.pages113-125
dc.rightsCC-BY
dc.sciencecloudnosend
dc.subject.enpost-colonial heritage, nomadic heritage, critical heritage studies, digital archaeology, hybridity, Syrian arch, Palmyra
dc.titleArchaeological heritage in the age of digital colonialism
dc.typeJournalArticle
dspace.entity.typePublication