tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-121665752024-03-07T05:58:34.268+00:00samarkeolog: human rights, cultural heritage and communityblog on human rights, cultural heritage, community, identity and violence, human rights archaeology, politics and societysamarkeologhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15105252320758729314noreply@blogger.comBlogger237125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12166575.post-16363232080010461822011-08-27T11:05:00.000+01:002011-08-27T11:25:57.456+01:00blog, archivedI decided to officially archive this blog on the day my DPhil was confirmed. But I have waited for the electronic publication of my thesis, <a href="http://conflictantiquities.wordpress.com/2011/08/27/cultural-heritage-work-in-cyprus-dphil-thesis-electronic-publication/">Interrogating Archaeological Ethics in Conflict Zones: Cultural Heritage Work in Cyprus</a>, to announce the archiving. From now on, I will blog at <a href="http://conflictantiquities.wordpress.com/">Conflict Antiquities</a>.<br />
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On Conflict Antiquities, I will concentrate on illicit antiquities trading, organised crime and political violence in Cyprus, Greece and Turkey. As I explain in an <a href="http://conflictantiquities.wordpress.com/2011/08/24/conflict-antiquities-introduction/">introduction to Conflict Antiquities</a>,<br />
<blockquote>I want to study the history of the trade in conflict antiquities; and to explore the relationship between the trade in conflict antiquities and the funding of conflict and violence.</blockquote>samarkeologhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15105252320758729314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12166575.post-44079935112377624092010-08-01T07:00:00.000+01:002010-08-01T07:00:01.954+01:00bones, screams, and thesesI agree with Ralph Waldo Emerson, 'sometimes a scream is better than a thesis'; but I can't submit a scream. And as Ogden Nash observed, 'progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long'; I just want it to be over and done with.<br />
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Blogging had been interesting and enjoyable, and helpful in my work (even if I'd never done it very regularly); but I don't have either the time or the attention span to do it (at all) at the moment. I've got to submit my thesis by the end of September.<br />
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J. Frank Dobie said that 'the average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another'. I was just about to finish creating a beautiful ceremonial cemetery; now I'm hurriedly disinterring the remains and dumping the disarticulated bones in a shallow grave.<br />
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[Also posted over on <i>Cultural Heritage in Conflict</i>.]samarkeologhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15105252320758729314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12166575.post-52672225213412716782010-07-08T20:40:00.005+01:002010-07-08T20:41:13.567+01:00homophobes crossed-out gay graffiti in Davlos/Kaplıca?There are romantic pink graffiti on the walls of the Chapel of Agios Sozomenos, outside Davlos/Kaplıca. I think they may be <a href="http://human-rights-archaeology.blogspot.com/2010/07/davlos-kaplica-cyprus-my-baby-love.html">gay graffiti, crossed-out</a> by homophobes; I explain over on <i>Cultural Heritage in Conflict</i>.samarkeologhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15105252320758729314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12166575.post-45530801079854794742010-06-02T06:00:00.016+01:002010-06-02T06:00:03.556+01:00summary: September Events, 1955, 2005Over on <i>Cultural Heritage in Conflict</i>, I've blogged two things I couldn't fit into my thesis: a summary of the <a href="http://human-rights-archaeology.blogspot.com/2010/05/events-of-september-1955-greece-turkey.html">Events of September 1955</a> in Greece and Turkey (also known as ta Septemvriana (τα Σεπτεμβριανά), or Eylül Olayları); and a note on the <a href="http://human-rights-archaeology.blogspot.com/2010/06/events-of-september-2005-istanbul.html">Events of September 2005</a>, Istanbul.samarkeologhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15105252320758729314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12166575.post-74724014530161224952010-05-15T10:15:00.008+01:002010-05-15T10:18:13.243+01:00Molotov bombing of Thessaloniki Jewish Cemetery (επίθεση με Μολότοφ στο Εβραϊκό Νεκροταφείο Θεσσαλονίκης)On his excellent (if often inevitably depressing) dual-language blog on Jewish life in Greece, Abravanel has detailed an <i>Incendiary Attack Against the Jewish Cemetery of Salonica [Επίθεση με Μολότοφ στο Εβραϊκό Νεκροταφείο Θεσσαλονίκης]</i>, a <a href="http://abravanel.wordpress.com/2010/05/15/jewish-cemetery-of-salonica-vandalized/">Molotov bombing</a>:<br />
<blockquote>At dawn on Friday the 14th of May 2010, people who belong to nationalist/neo-Nazi space (1), attacked the new Jewish Cemetery of Thessaloniki in the Stavropoli area (2).<br />
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Apart from the spraying of graffiti with stock antisemitic slogans like Juden Raus, Burn the Jews, Sieg Heil, Hitler and the depiction of the nazi swastika and the number 88 which is linked to the Es Es [H is the eighth letter of the alphabet, thus 88 is HH, which stands for "Heil Hitler"], they attempted to destroy the Jewish tombs using molotov cocktails as incendiary devices.<br />
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[Τα ξημερώματα της Παρασκευής 14ης Μαϊου 2010 άτομα που ανήκουν στον εθνικιστικό/νεοναζιστικό χώρο, επιτέθηκαν στο νέο Εβραϊκό Νεκροταφείο της Θεσσαλονίκης στην περιοχή της Σταυρούπολης.<br />
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Πέρα από την αναγραφή γκραφίτι με κλασικά αντισημιτικά συνθήματα όπως Juden Raus, Φωτιά στους Εβραίους, Sieg Heil, Hitler και των συμβόλων της ναζιστικής σβάστικας και του αριθμού 88 που συνδέονται με τα Ες Ες [H είναι το όγδοο γράμμα της αλφαβήτας, άρα 88 είναι HH, που αντικαθιστεί "Heil Hitler"], επιτέθηκαν με βόμβες μολότωφ στους εβραϊκούς τάφους.]</blockquote>(I have tweaked some of Abravanel's translation to make it read more easily; but I have honoured Abravanel's choices of words, such as his translation of "classic antisemitic slogans" as 'stock antisemitic slogans'.)<br />
<ol><li>That sentence still doesn't read fluidly; but the original idea of someone "belonging to the nationalist/neo-Nazi space" (a geographical image of a political community) doesn't translate really.</li>
<li>I've left that phrase as it is (rather than translating it as "the new Jewish Cemetery in the Stavropoli area of Thessaloniki"), because the site's name is the Jewish Cemetery of Thessaloniki. It also serves to remind that the old Jewish Cemetery of Thessaloniki is destroyed and invisible underneath the campus of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.</li>
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Afterwards, (at least previously) TRNC Honorary Representative Kufi Seydali protested, and <i>someone</i> accused me of a 'masterpiece in political propaganda'; that's now in Turkish-language newspapers across Europe.<br />
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My first attempt to defend myself and my work is over on <i><a href="http://human-rights-archaeology.blogspot.com/2010/04/trnc-rep-kufi-seydali-political.html">Cultural Heritage in Conflict</a></i>.samarkeologhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15105252320758729314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12166575.post-12500961456362545722010-04-16T15:30:00.001+01:002010-04-18T22:14:40.854+01:00Archaeology, conflict, antiquities rescueThe subject has developed from one blog post to another, to a conference paper, and now to a millstone around my neck.<br />
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I'm still working on answering Kufi Seydali's and Ata Atun's misrepresentations of my work; but to help to disprove their claims, I've posted the final draft of my talk about <i>Cypriot Antiquities Rescue from the Turkish Deep State: the Rescue of Forgeries, and the Death of Stephanos Stephanou</i> over on <i>Cultural Heritage in Conflict</i>.<br />
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Hardy, S A. 2010: "Cypriot antiquities rescue from the Turkish deep state: the rescue of forgeries, and the death of Stephanos Stephanou". Paper presented at the International Conference on Archaeology in Conflict, Vienna, Austria, 6th-10th April. Available at: <a href="http://human-rights-archaeology.blogspot.com/2010/04/archaeology-conflict-antiquities-rescue.html">http://human-rights-archaeology.blogspot.com/2010/04/archaeology-conflict-antiquities-rescue.html</a><br />
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<u>Abstract</u><br />
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Looting of Cypriot cultural heritage has been a problem since the Nineteenth Century, but a paramilitary-controlled illicit antiquities trade exploded during the intercommunal conflict of 1963-1974; and after the Greek-backed coup and the Turkish invasion of 1974, the worst extremes continued in northern Cyprus.<br />
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Looted antiquities' "rescue" has long been one "solution", which has included not only a secret agreement between Greek Cypriot archaeologists and Greek Cypriot private collectors, but also apparently illegal Greek Cypriot undercover antiquities police purchasing from Turkish Cypriot and Turkish nationalist terrorist groups.<br />
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Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot administrations' mutual non-cooperation has not only had tragic consequences for Cypriot cultural heritage. Here, I wish to explore Greek Cypriot undercover antiquities police agent Stephanos Stephanou's arrest by Turkish Cypriot antiquities police, and his death in Turkish Cypriot custody.samarkeologhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15105252320758729314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12166575.post-1719388706182238882010-03-02T10:00:00.001+00:002010-03-02T10:00:00.683+00:00Kophinou village destruction, Kofinou mosque arsonOver on <i>Cultural Heritage in Conflict</i>, I've summarised previous <a href="http://human-rights-archaeology.blogspot.com/2010/03/kofinou-mosque-village-previous.html">destruction</a> in the formerly Turkish Cypriot village of Kophinou; and I've relayed the <i>Cyprus Mail</i>'s defiance of police censorship to report <a href="http://human-rights-archaeology.blogspot.com/2010/03/kophinou-mosque-arson-greek-cypriot.html">arson at Kofinou Mosque</a>.samarkeologhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15105252320758729314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12166575.post-28768618716643843722010-02-12T16:15:00.002+00:002010-02-12T16:16:37.704+00:00Istanbul riots, September 1955: Albanian protection of Greek Orthodox churchResearching the destruction of cultural heritage during the Turkish deep state-directed Istanbul riots(1) of 6th-7th September 1955, I found a Greek report that noted Albanian protection of a Greek Orthodox church.<br />
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It's not sufficiently relevant for me to mention it in my thesis, but I think it's a significant footnote in the history of the city and in Greek-Albanian community relations, which could play a(n albeit very) small part in improving the relationship between Greeks and Albanians.<br />
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On 14th September 1955, Greek newspaper <i>Makedonia (Μακεδονία)</i> reported that the Church of the Twelve Apostles(2) had been about to burn down, but 'the Turkish Albanians saved it [τόν έσωσαν οι Τουρκαλβανοί]' (cited in Kaloumenos, 1966: 25).<br />
<ol><li>Also known as: ta Septemvriana (τα Σεπτεμβριανά); or Eylül Olayları.</li>
<li>O Naos ton Dodeka Apostolon (ο Ναός τών Δώδεκα Αποστόλων).</li>
</ol>Kaloumenos, D. 1966: I stavrosis tou Christianismou: I istoriki alitheia ton gegonoton tis 6-7 Septemvriou 1955 eis tin Konstantinoupolin [the crucifixion of Christianity: The historical truth of the events of 6th-7th September 1955 in Constantinople]. Athina: Χωρίς όνομα [without name - i.e. publisher unknown]. [Καλούμενος, Δ. 1966: Η σταύρωσις του Χριστιανισμού: Η ιστορική αλήθεια των γεγονότων της 6-7 Σεπτεμβρίου 1955 εις την Κωνσταντινούπολιν. Αθήναι: Χωρίς όνομα (χ.ό.).]samarkeologhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15105252320758729314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12166575.post-25013888952359013072010-01-30T14:35:00.001+00:002010-01-30T14:37:07.339+00:00Greek Cypriot antiquities smuggling, Limassol antiquities smuggler arrest updateA '30-year-old from Limassol' - so, presumably Greek Cypriot - has been arrested for 'conspiracy in a felony, <a href="http://www.cyprus-mail.com/cyprus/new-arrest-antiquities-smuggling-case/20100130">illegal possession and smuggling of antiquities</a> and illegal possession of a gun'. The arrest is part of the latest, greatest case of Cypriot antiquities smuggling and (potentially) <a href="http://human-rights-archaeology.blogspot.com/2010/01/greek-cypriot-antiquities-smuggling.html">illegal undercover antiquities police</a> work.<br />
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Cyprus Mail. 2010: "New arrest in antiquities smuggling case". <u>The Cyprus Mail</u>, 30th January. Available at: <a href="http://www.cyprus-mail.com/cyprus/new-arrest-antiquities-smuggling-case/20100130">http://www.cyprus-mail.com/cyprus/new-arrest-antiquities-smuggling-case/20100130</a><br />
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[Also posted on <i>Cultural Heritage in Conflict</i>.]samarkeologhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15105252320758729314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12166575.post-53722750524121477092010-01-26T13:00:00.001+00:002010-01-26T13:04:12.688+00:00Greek Cypriot antiquities looting, smuggling, dealing updateI have updated the information in my previous post on <i><a href="http://human-rights-archaeology.blogspot.com/2010/01/greek-cypriot-antiquities-smuggling.html">Greek Cypriot antiquities smuggling; illegal undercover antiquities police</a></i>; it includes confirmation that one of the smugglers was a a retired Greek Cypriot police officer, and that the ring's middleman was a Greek antiquities dealer.<br />
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[Also posted on <i>cultural heritage in conflict</i>.]samarkeologhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15105252320758729314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12166575.post-1971489209327470932009-12-24T06:00:00.002+00:002009-12-24T06:00:05.855+00:00Salonica: Holocaust / Shoah photographs; Abravanel's blogAs Abravanel commented on my previous post about his blog post on the <a href="http://samarkeolog.blogspot.com/2009/12/ioannina-holocaust-shoah-photographs.html" target="_blank">Holocaust / Shoah in Ioannina</a> (in which I should have said that I recommended that <i>blog</i>, not just that post), he has also published 'Photos from the <a href="http://abravanel.wordpress.com/2009/06/06/photos_from_shoah_in_salonica/" target="_blank">Shoah in Salonica</a> [Φωτογραφίες από το Ολοκαύτωμα στη Θεσσαλονίκη]'.<br />
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I think I first found Abravanel's blog when I was looking for cultural heritage in Ioannina (where I'm studying at the moment), and heard about the '<a href="http://abravanel.wordpress.com/2009/06/06/jewish-cemetery-again-vandalized/" target="_blank">Jewish Cemetery Ioannina (again) vandalized</a> [Εβραϊκό Νεκροταφείο Ιωαννίνων βανδαλίζεται (ξανά)]'.<br />
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I don't know what I'll be doing this summer (or, indeed, after), but I would like to tour Greece, visiting lots of cultural heritage sites (ancient and modern, positive and negative), as well as finally forcing my brain to develop some proficiency in the language. If I do go on a cultural heritage tour, I expect Abravanel's blog will be my first inspiration for Jewish Greek historic sites.samarkeologhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15105252320758729314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12166575.post-23686223361554924582009-12-22T21:00:00.004+00:002009-12-22T21:00:00.897+00:00Ioannina: Holocaust / Shoah photographsOn a blog on <i>Jewish life and not only in Greece / Εβραϊκή ζωή και όχι μόνο στην Ελλάδα</i>, Abravanel has published 'Photos from the <a href="http://abravanel.wordpress.com/2009/12/17/photos_from_shoah_ioannina/" target="_blank">Holocaust-Shoah in Ioannina</a> [Φωτογραφίες από το Ολοκαύτωμα στα Ιωάννινα]' (introduced in English as well as Greek).samarkeologhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15105252320758729314noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12166575.post-17016556278424567282009-12-13T04:00:00.000+00:002009-12-13T04:00:00.093+00:00Looting for politics or profit: nationalists or Romanians looted Papadopoulos's graveOver on <i>Cultural Heritage in Conflict</i>, I very briefly query Greek Cypriot police's presumption that a <a href="http://human-rights-archaeology.blogspot.com/2009/12/phileleftheros-nationalist-organisation.html" target="_blank">foreign nationalist organisation, or Romanian gang</a>, stole Greek Cypriot President Tassos Papadopoulos's body.<br />
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The police may have good reason to believe those things; and they may have good reason to deny public access to the evidence; but still, they have not presented any evidence.samarkeologhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15105252320758729314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12166575.post-61557466729855348312009-12-12T05:00:00.000+00:002009-12-12T05:00:04.033+00:00Cypriot conspiracy theories: Tassos Papadopoulos's grave robbersOver on <i>Cultural Heritage in Conflict</i>, I've spent a little more time exploring the current <a href="http://human-rights-archaeology.blogspot.com/2009/12/cypriot-conspiracy-theories-tassos.html" target="_blank">Cypriot conspiracy theories</a> on Tassos Papadopoulos's grave robbers. (I also, albeit briefly, address the shameless political spin on the shameless political violence.)samarkeologhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15105252320758729314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12166575.post-76151138105350296852009-12-11T16:00:00.002+00:002009-12-11T16:06:48.950+00:00President Tassos Papadopoulos: grave robbedOver on <i>Cultural Heritage in Conflict</i>, I review the breaking news that someone has <a href="http://human-rights-archaeology.blogspot.com/2009/12/president-tassos-papadopoulos-grave.html" target="_blank">robbed Greek Cypriot President Tassos Papadopoulos's grave</a>.samarkeologhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15105252320758729314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12166575.post-14960145001398509052009-11-12T16:05:00.013+00:002009-11-12T16:09:13.357+00:00Wikileaks published Freeman, MacDonald and Renfrew's report on Schøyen's Iraqi incantation bowls<i>An Inquiry into the provenance of <a href="http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/UK_possession_of_art_works_looted_from_Iraq:_Schoyen_UCL_Inquiry_report%2C_2009" target="_blank">654 Aramaic incantation bowls</a> delivered into the possession of UCL by, or on the instruction of, Mr Martin Schøyen</i>, until now suppressed, has just been published on Wikileaks (under the title, "UK possession of art works looted from Iraq: Schoyen UCL Inquiry report, 2009 [2006]").<br />
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More later...samarkeologhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15105252320758729314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12166575.post-16035226822518572272009-09-28T17:00:00.000+01:002009-09-28T17:00:00.862+01:00British Library Newspaper Archive: Hellenist propaganda sources checkedOver on <i>Cultural Heritage in Conflict</i>, I've checked some of my sources' (supposed) sources in the British Library's newspaper archive.<br />
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In this post, I've checked John Fielding's writing about Jacques Dalibard's suppressed UNESCO report, and thus Michael Jansen's use of John Fielding's study of <i>the Rape of Northern Cyprus</i><br />
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As always, it's a good example of clever <a href="http://human-rights-archaeology.blogspot.com/2009/09/fielding-jansen-hellenist-propaganda.html" target="_blank">Hellenist propaganda</a>.<br />
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I'm behind on other work, and I'm going away without most of my research materials, so it may be a long time before I get to go through the rest of the documents.samarkeologhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15105252320758729314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12166575.post-60919339598739141862009-09-24T12:00:00.001+01:002009-09-24T12:00:05.494+01:00Kios / Istinjo / Tabanlı, Cyprus: evacuated village, destroyedOver on <i>Cultural Heritage in Conflict</i>, I've introduced my site photo blog on the Turkish Cypriot village of <a href="http://kios-community-cultural-heritage.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Kios/Istinjo/Tabanlı</a>, by reviewing the evidence that the abandoned or evacuated village has been <a href="http://human-rights-archaeology.blogspot.com/2009/09/kios-abandoned-village-reoccupied.html" target="_blank">destroyed</a>.samarkeologhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15105252320758729314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12166575.post-48552583071831850742009-09-13T16:00:00.000+01:002009-09-13T16:00:02.565+01:00distortion of history: Coufoudakis' and Republic of Cyprus' opinion on destruction of Cypriot cultural heritageProf. Van Coufoudakis wrote about <i>the Destruction of Cultural Heritage</i> in a Greek Cypriot government booklet, <i>Human Rights Violations in Cyprus by Turkey</i>.<br /><br />Over on <i>human rights archaeology</i>, I used the booklet and public discussion of Coufoudakis's work to study the opinion of the "progressive" government of the Republic of Cyprus.<br /><br />The "new" position is the <i>old</i> one, a <a href="http://human-rights-archaeology.blogspot.com/2009/09/van-coufoudakis-destruction-of-cypriot.html" target="_blank">distortion of history</a>: "Cypriot" cultural heritage is <i>Greek Cypriot</i> cultural heritage; Turkey was the only human rights violator; and Greek Cypriots were the only victims.<br /><br />Given their progressive public stance, the official booklet's Hellenist nationalist distortion is contradictory and depressing.samarkeologhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15105252320758729314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12166575.post-82923339227644785272009-09-10T12:45:00.002+01:002009-09-10T12:56:46.064+01:00debunking mistakes and misrepresentations of Hellenist witnesses for U.S. Helsinki CommissionI finally posted a review <a href="http://human-rights-archaeology.blogspot.com/2009/09/us-helsinki-commission-hearing.html" target="_blank">debunking the U.S. Helsinki Commission's Hellenist witnesses</a>, over on <i>human rights archaeology</i>.<br /><br /><i>Warning</i>: it is a super-loser-length blog post; the soundtrack is the final sigh of my patience, and I think it has more value as a debunking than as a light read, unless you enjoy observing me entering a world of pain.samarkeologhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15105252320758729314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12166575.post-7754056726357698602009-09-07T07:00:00.000+01:002009-09-07T07:00:03.801+01:00Equality Trust's Kate Pickett: 'we need equality as a substitute for growth'Philobiblon has a post on a speech by the <a href="http://www.equalitytrust.org.uk/" target="_blank">Equality Trust</a>'s Kate Pickett, in which she quickly demonstrated how 'growth has been used as a substitute for <a href="http://philobiblon.co.uk/?p=3084" target="_blank">equality</a>', and why it ought not to be.<br /><br />Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett were the authors of <i>the Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better</i>: here is their <a href="http://www.equalitytrust.org.uk/why/evidence" target="_blank">evidence</a>; and here are a <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/mar/12/equality-british-society" target="_blank">report</a> and a <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/mar/13/the-spirit-level" target="_blank">review</a> of the book.samarkeologhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15105252320758729314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12166575.post-5196914255691606282009-09-03T07:00:00.000+01:002009-09-03T07:00:04.994+01:00Lobby for Cyprus events: specialised, or misleading, historical understanding?Over on <i>human rights archaeology</i>, I have discussed two Lobby for Cyprus events that concerned me. I feared that the genuine academic's <a href="http://human-rights-archaeology.blogspot.com/2009/09/desmond-fernandes-historical.html" target="_blank">historical understanding</a> was so specialised as to be misleading.samarkeologhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15105252320758729314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12166575.post-91836212567361424142009-09-02T08:15:00.001+01:002009-09-02T08:23:38.453+01:00false accusations, polluted search resultsOver on <i>human rights archaeology</i>, I've shown how, after a singularly undignifying discussion, some <a href="http://human-rights-archaeology.blogspot.com/2009/09/us-helsinki-commission-listserv.html" target="_blank">listserv discussants' false accusations</a> against me polluted search results (though I still need to test some more searches to see how general the effect is).<br /><br />I've also presented hits to my research blog that reveal how <s>desperate</s> <s>serious</s> desperate certain unknown persons were in their attempts to discredit me.samarkeologhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15105252320758729314noreply@blogger.com0