Category: Blog
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Latest Article
My New article “No Wonder That on This Spot God Spoke to Us”: Intersection of Anglican Tourist-Pilgrims and Archaeology in British Mandate Palestine is now online at Mashriq & Mahjar: Journal of Middle East & North African Migration Studies 10, pp. 42–67 DOI: https://doi.org/10.24847/v10i22023.361
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Palestine: Why archaeology is complicit in imperialism
A brief blog on the role of archaeology as a colonial discipline and why we need to address this, urgently. Archaeology in Palestine, as in much of the world, developed as an imperial discipline and it still is. Yet today more than ever, as Gaza faces annihilation, as Palestinians are suffering in a situation that…
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So the British Museum is closed
Today, The British Museum is closed due to strike action. As both an historian of archaeology, who has studied in depth the imperialist archaeology which underpinned the development of the British Museum, its links to empire and colonialism, and as an ex-Front of House employee in a museum, this feels powerful. The British Museum is a…
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Visualising Colonial Hierarchies in Images of Archaeology in Mandate Palestine
I have a new blog up on H-Net Empire here , exploring the colonial hierarchies in archaeology via photographs. Work in progress at Ain Shems (Beth Shemesh) source
Chloe Emmott 