Cultivating the Past, Living the Modern: The Politics of Time in the Sultanate of Oman
Amal Sachedina
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2021
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9781501758621
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9781501758614
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Cultivating the Past, Living the Modern: The Politics of Time in the Sultanate of Oman
Amal Sachedina
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Abstract
This chapter examines how, in Nizwa, socioeconomic instabilities and their effects are powerfully shaped by the felt gap between national historical narratives and the utopian aspirations and civic values that are intimately associated with them. Memories of life during the imamate and the violence that followed were managed and contained by the sultanic state through the concrete practices of heritage discursive practices, tourism, and historic preservation acts that made the last physical traces of the imamate and tribal histories meaningful through a national-modernist temporality. But this new sense of time, the history and imagery it conveys, assumes a performative dimension. Among laypeople, the language of heritage becomes a discursive medium and a practical enterprise for economic and political claims making through such ethical principles as social solidarity, generosity, and interpersonal consultation, which are continually undermined by the state's restructuring of the urban fabric of the city. Through tracking people's relationships to the old residential quarters, the fort, and the souq of Nizwa, the chapter considers how this contradictory state of affairs has opened a space for alternative memory practices that invoke the Ibadi Imamate, while acting as a broader critique of the sultanate's governance practices.
Keywords: Nizwa, national historical narratives, civic values, heritage discursive practices, national-modernist temporality, sultanic state, ethical principles, Ibadi Imamate
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Social and Cultural Anthropology Regional Anthropology
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