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The Ruins of Palmyra and the Politics of Cultural Erasure
帕尔米拉废墟与文化抹除的政治学
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Palmyra’s monumental architecture once embodied a syncretic urban identity bridging Rome, Parthia, and Arab tribal traditions.帕尔米拉的宏伟建筑曾体现了一种融合罗马、帕提亚与阿拉伯部落传统的城市身份。
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Its deliberate destruction in 2015 exposed how heritage sites become strategic targets in asymmetric warfare and ideological contestation.2015年对其蓄意摧毁，暴露了文化遗产地如何在不对称战争与意识形态博弈中沦为战略目标。
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UNESCO’s emergency documentation efforts revealed not only loss but also centuries of layered interventions by empires and archaeologists alike.联合国教科文组织的紧急记录工作不仅揭示了损失，也呈现了数百年来帝国与考古学家层层叠加的干预痕迹。
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Local guides and Syrian scholars preserved oral histories that official archives had long marginalized or omitted entirely.当地向导与叙利亚学者保存了口述历史，而这些内容长期被官方档案边缘化甚至完全忽略。
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Restoration debates since 2018 have foregrounded tensions between authenticity, memorialization, and post-conflict state legitimacy.2018年以来的修复争论凸显了真实性、纪念性与战后国家合法性的张力。
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The site’s fate underscores how ruins function less as neutral relics than as contested platforms for competing historical narratives.该遗址的命运表明：废墟并非中立遗存，而是承载竞争性历史叙事的 contested 平台。
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Digital reconstructions now circulate globally, yet often erase the labor and epistemic authority of regional conservators.数字重建如今全球传播，却常抹去区域保护者所付出的劳动及其知识权威。
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Tourism policy before 2011 had already commodified Palmyra’s ‘timelessness’, obscuring its active role in modern Syrian identity formation.2011年前的旅游政策早已将帕尔米拉的‘永恒性’商品化，遮蔽了它在现代叙利亚身份建构中的积极作用。
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International funding priorities frequently privilege photogenic monuments over vernacular infrastructure or intangible practices tied to place.国际资金往往优先资助视觉上吸引人的纪念碑，而非与地方紧密关联的民间基础设施或非物质实践。
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Archaeological ethics today must reckon with both wartime violence and the quiet erasures embedded in peacetime curation.当今考古伦理必须同时直面战时暴力，以及和平时期策展中隐含的悄然消声。
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Palmyra thus compels us to ask: whose memory is authorized, and whose is rendered illegible in the name of preservation?帕尔米拉由此迫使我们追问：谁的记忆被授权保存？谁的记忆又在‘保护’名义下被抹除？
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Its stones remain, but their meaning continues to be negotiated across diplomatic forums, academic journals, and displaced communities.石头犹存，但其意义仍在外交场合、学术期刊与流散社群之间持续协商。