Nardella, Bianca Maria; (2013) 'Orienting the Knowledge of International Urban Conservation in the Light of the Arab Revolutions'. Planum. The Journal of Urbanism , 1 (26) , Article 25.

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Abstract

This paper engages the specialists’ network of urban conservation to reflect on the apparent mismatch between the knowledge and values system of experts and those of wider society in the light of the ‘Arab revolutions’. A postcolonial perspective is adopted to problematise the ‘thinking and doing’ of a transnational community concerned with a sensitive treatment of spatial transformations in ‘historic’ cities of Arab-Islamic legacy in the Mediterranean. A progressive research agenda is put forward to engage critical heritage studies and the anthropology of development at the intersection where a post-western perspective is needed to disentangle the production of international cultural heritage knowledge from a scientistic / positivist paradigm. Multi-sited ethnography is suggested as a methodological strategy, and the Old City of Tunis as a site to test dis-continuities with colonial and Western epistemologies, as related to the knowledge practice of urban conservation professionals.

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