{"id":840,"date":"2023-03-05T13:59:49","date_gmt":"2023-03-05T13:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panseeatta.com\/?page_id=840"},"modified":"2025-09-02T13:53:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T13:53:15","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/panseeatta.com\/index.php\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"840\" class=\"elementor elementor-840\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c3ab126 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"c3ab126\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d290cfa elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"d290cfa\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Publications<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-68c5d47 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"68c5d47\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a69e761 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"a69e761\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul>\n<li>Pansee Abou ElAtta, <em>Legitimizing \u1e24urma As A Mode Of Affective Relation To Antiquity<\/em>, Journal of Egyptian Archaeology (<em>Forthcoming\/2025<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>Pansee Abou ElAtta, <em>More-than-human networks Dutch museum collections <\/em>(<em>Forthcoming\/2025<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>Pansee Abou ElAtta, \u201cThe Moon Upon its Fourteenth Night: Embodied archives, gendered histories, and decolonial story-telling practices.\u201d Worlding Public Cultures Chapbook Series, ICI Press (<em>Forthcoming\/2025<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>Atta, Pansee. &#8220;Feeling Unproductive: Vivek Shraya on the Creative Labor of Negative Affect.&#8221;\u00a0<em>Re\/Imagining Depression<\/em>. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2021. 119-132. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/978-3-030-80554-8_10\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/978-3-030-80554-8_10<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2ccd42 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"2ccd42\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-694cb574\" data-id=\"694cb574\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0d420c9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"0d420c9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">PhD<\/h2>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Unruly Appreciations: How Contestation Shapes the Value of Pharaonic Things<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n<p>Carleton University, 2022<\/p>\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/curve.carleton.ca\/6a6f922c-c2b7-40aa-b605-4ae412c5e5a8\">https:\/\/curve.carleton.ca\/6a6f922c-c2b7-40aa-b605-4ae412c5e5a8<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<p>ABSTRACT:<\/p>\n\n<p>How have Egyptian struggles to repatriate and retain Pharaonic artifacts shaped the value and meaning attributed to these iconic but contested objects? And how have these public struggles influenced museum practice from the time of its modern origins? This dissertation works against the archival grain to trace a popular history of three Pharaonic objects (or collections thereof) around which highly-visible campaigns for ownership have been waged: Tutankhamun&#8217;s treasures, The Bust of Nefertiti, and the obelisk typically titled the &#8216;Paris Needle&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n<p>Each chapter examines the contestations through which these objects have gained a foothold in Egyptian liberatory projects and in the global imaginary, from the 18th century to the present day. Colonial expeditions in Egypt represent some of the earliest ventures in modern archaeological collection and museology, generating a foundation upon which many of the world&#8217;s most authoritative museums have constructed their legacies as part of broader nation-building projects. In the case of the &#8216;Tutmanias&#8217; of the 1920s and 1970s, media representations leverage public conceptions of ancient history to consolidate Western geopolitical power in the Middle East. Mass media plays a similar role with the Bust of Nefertiti, whose ownership becomes the focus of frenzied publicity in Weimar Germany, reflecting and reproducing the racial, geopolitical, and gendered anxieties of the era. The obelisk&#8217;s transport from Luxor to Paris produces and mediates the public square in a different way, erasing Egyptian labour while glorifying the feat of its transport to substantiate its value as a trophy.<\/p>\n\n<p>Finally, this dissertation looks to the displacement of Gurna &#8211; a supposed &#8220;world capital of thieves&#8221; atop the Theban Necropolis &#8211; as a case study in intra- and inter-national contestation around the &#8216;value&#8217; of heritage, preservation, and place. Doing so, this project draws links between the complex imbrications of artifactual value on the economic, sociological, and semiotic levels. These highly-public yet little-researched anticolonial struggles shed light on the ways in which rhetorics of (economic and affective) &#8216;appreciation&#8217; are deployed to impose ways of feeling and knowing about history which produce normative museological ends.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" href=\"blob:https:\/\/panseeatta.com\/5af6adff-07cf-4e18-aee7-3603e21ea1c0\" download=\"\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-a6a125a elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"a6a125a\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-5bdad75\" data-id=\"5bdad75\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5912c31 elementor-widget elementor-widget-pdf_viewer\" data-id=\"5912c31\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"pdf_viewer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<iframe src=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/viewer?url=https:\/\/panseeatta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/abouelatta-unrulyappreciationshowcontestationshapesthe-1.pdf&amp;embedded=true\" style=\"display: block; 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