Archaeology and renaming manufacture an originary claim to contested land

Evidence

Nadia Abu El-Haj points out that the Israeli investment in archaeology as a national interest represents not just a fascination with the past as pastime. Rather, it serves to stake an originary claim to the land, an unbroken material link to the antique imaginary, a legitimation of belonging, and the anchoring ground of the right to return. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 627 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Perse grounds identity in a deliberately forged future name rather than fixed birthplace — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 254; Sacralized territorial claims have become a shared vocabulary among rival post-imperial nations — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 1525; Columbus’s renaming of land exemplified incorporating difference into the empire of same — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 592 (+12 more)

Broader Connections

• Renaming Palestinian places in Hebrew fabricates an ancient biblical claim to the land #exemplifies (0.93)
• Israeli state archaeology functions to legitimize an exclusive claim to the land #exemplifies (0.92) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 627