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Rule of Objects: On the De-Peopling of Safe Havens*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 September 2017

William Carruthers
William Carruthers*
Affiliation:
German Historical Institute London
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What does it mean to be “safe,” and what does it mean to be “endangered”? Who defines these terms, why, and what does this act of definition allow them to do? In December 2016, a conference entitled Safeguarding Endangered Cultural Heritage took place in Abu Dhabi, organized jointly by the governments of the United Arab Emirates and France, and held under the patronage of UNESCO. The Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Shaykh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, was in attendance, as was French President François Hollande and the Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova; many other dignitaries joined them. The diplomatic spectacle was a sight to behold. The assembled, distinctly elite, group seemed to have given itself sole authority to speak for and about cultural heritage around the world.

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Roundtable
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Review of Middle East Studies , Volume 51 , Issue 2 , August 2017 , pp. 228 - 233
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Copyright © Middle East Studies Association of North America, Inc. 2017 

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Footnotes

*

This is an edited, re-worked version of a piece originally published on my personal blog at http://williamcarruthers.wordpress.com on 19 December 2016.

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