José Antonio González Zarandona

TL;DR: The authors examined the heritage destruction undertaken by the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria and argued that heritage destruction perpetrated by the IS are not only situated within a carefully articulated theological framework and key to the creation of a new and ideologically pure Islamic State, but also constituted by several complex layers of religious and political iconoclasm.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a new analytical framework of "Digitally Mediated Iconoclasm" (DMI) to analyse and interpret iconoclastic acts that are experienced through the propaganda (videos, social media, etc.).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors map heritage destruction in Myanmar's Rakhine state and outline the historic and contemporary political context in Myanmar explaining the background of the Rohingya Muslim ethnic minority group.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze the destruction of heritage perpetrated by the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria and argue that attacks on heritage sites in conjunction with genocidal pogroms or ethno/religious conflict occur precisely because heritage plays such a critical role as the tangible manifestation of the community.

TL;DR: The destruction of statues representing political figures carries symbolic meanings that are negotiated by the people who attack the statue and the regime that the statue represents as mentioned in this paper, which is the case in many cases.