<i>Mood as medium:</i> Reconstruction and the material speculations of <i>“</i>new heritage”

If the politics of aspirational construction appeal to enchantment infrastructure, reconstruction usually takes as given an environment post-conflict, natural disaster, or degradation systems preservation resource management. and conservation are taken markers continuity political stability what does urge build again say about those who exert these ideas in advancement a set common goals? Shaped through multi-sited ethnography Pakistan United Arab Emirates, this essay explores mediation mood its material speculations. Concepts borrowed from both moving image digital forms heritage restoration provide ways rethinking place coming new understanding sensual atmospheric terrain.