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Gibson challenges the rhetoric of museum repatriation, arguing that, while it has been tremendously important to advancing Indigenous interest, it is too often over-simplified.

Technological advances, combined with the push towards decolonising methodologies in Indigenous research, have resulted in considerable interest in ensuring that collections of cultural value are returned to Indigenous communities. Drawing on ethnographic work undertaken with Aboriginal communities and the institutions that hold significant collections, the author reveals important new insights about the impact of return on communities. Repatriation of Indigenous Cultural Heritage examines how returned materials - objects, photographs, audio and manuscripts - are being received and reintegrated into the ongoing social and cultural lives of Aboriginal Australians.Ĭombining a critical examination of the making of these collections with an assessment of their contemporary significance, the book exposes the opportunities and challenges involved in returning cultural heritage for the purposes of maintaining, preserving or reviving cultural practice.

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Through a series of case studies, the book examines the role played by religion in forming civilizational identities, but also investigates the often deleterious consequences of civilizational populism entering the political mainstream. This book is the first to examine civilizational populism as global phenomenon rather than a uniquely Western form of politics. From Western Europe to Turkey, and from India and Pakistan to Indonesia, populists are increasingly employing a civilization based classification of peoples in order to define the identities of ‘the people’ and their perceived enemies. Today, we increasingly find not conflict between civilizations, but conflict within states over their civilizational identity. Civilizational populism posits that democracy ought to be based upon enacting the ‘people’s will’, yet it adds a new and troubling dimension to populism’s thin ideology: a civilization based classification of peoples and division of society. This books explores the rise of civilizational populism throughout the world, and its consequences. This book also describes how, throughout its second decade in power, the AKP has used Turkey’s education system, its Directorate of Religious Affairs, and television programs in order to propagate its necropolitical martyrdom narrative. This narrative, the book shows, is used by the party to legitimise its actions and deflect its failures through the framing of the deaths of Turkish soldiers and civilians, which have occurred due to the AKP’s political errors, as martyrdom events in which loyal servants of the Turkish Republic and God gave their lives in order to protect the nation in a time of great crisis. In doing so, the book argues that as the party transitioned from socially conservative Muslim democratic values to authoritarian Islamism, it embraced a necropolitical narrative based on the promotion of martyrdom, and of killing and dying for the Turkish nation and Islam, as part of their authoritarian legitimation. All Rights Reserved.This book examines how Turkey’s ruling party, the Justice and Development Party (AKP), under the leadership of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan produces and employs necropolitical narratives in order to perpetuate its authoritarian rule. “People say they want to save time,” CEO Sapone says, “but if you look at what they’re really saying, it’s that they want you to give them back time so they can spend it in the highest quality way.”Ĭopyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. Their start-up’s fleet of some 285 household managers, or Alfreds, as they are cheekily called (named for Batman’s dependable butler), sees to it that subscribers have tidy, well-stocked homes and, more important, a radical lightness of being.

Marcela Sapone and Jessica Beck, both 32, set out to achieve just that sorcery when they launched the on-demand personal concierge service Hello Alfred in 2014. Now imagine a life wherein the weight of all of these microburdens has magically lifted. There will always be more groceries to be purchased, dry cleaning to be dropped off, candles and soaps and wine bottles to be procured. MagazineĪMONG THE MORE brutal realities of adulthood is the list of tasks and to-dos that, no matter how privileged or organized you may happen to be, never quite melts away. HOME TEAM Marcela Sapone (right) and Jessica Beck at Sapone’s home in Brooklyn.

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