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Erin Addison is an historian (PhD. UC Santa Barbara Dept. of Religious Studies) and landscape architect (MLA University of Arizona College of Architecture, Planning & Landscape Architecture) who has lived and worked in Jordan since 1994. An academic career brought her to Jordan, where eventually her Fulbright research on Umayyad water politics drew her into work on Jordan's contemporary water concerns. She returned to the U.S. in 2002 to pursue an MLA from UofA. Her MLA thesis research was published as Documenting Deforestation at Sadd al-Ahmar, Petra Region, Jordan: 1924-2011 (2011).

From 2007-2010 she served as the Director of Research and Design at Jordan's Royal Botanic Garden. At RBG she co-founded (with range scientist Dr. Raed al-Tabini), in 2008, the Community Based Rangeland Rehabilitation (CBRR) initiative, which successfully increased milk and meat production and profit from local sheep herds while increasing biomass and biodiversity on the 180 ha. RBG site. CBRR has tripled in scope and continues today. In 2010-11 she served as the senior environmental expert on the award-winning Strategic Master Plan for Petra Region. From 2012-2021 Addison consulted on a variety of UNDP, USAID, GOJ, UNESCO, and private sector projects in Jordan and the region. She served as Director at Al-Hima (2013-2014), a Jordanian non-profit focused on rural development projects, and as Projects Lead for the USAID-funded SCHEP (Sustainable Cultural Heritage Through Engagement of Local Communities Project).

Grounded by the pandemic, Addison returned to Tucson, where she is writing and designing water-conscious residential gardens.

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The mosque at al-Qasṭal. Report from al-Qasṭal conservation and development project, 1999-2000

Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan, 2000

Documenting deforestation at Sidd al-Ahmar, Petra Region, Jordan

The Nature of Culture: in search of the 'real' landscape of Petra

The Conservation of Traditional Crops Project, Jordan

Political effluent: Implementing wastewater re-use in Wadi Musa, Jordan

The Roads to Ruins: accessing Islamic heritage in Jordan

Doing With and Doing Without: water use patterns amongst the Qastal Fayez of Bani Sakhr

Constructing the Cultural Landscape in Southwest Asia

The following paper addresses the balance -or tension -between globalization and cultural integri... more The following paper addresses the balance -or tension -between globalization and cultural integrity in the cultural heritage management of southwest Asia. The thesis contends that the management of southwest Asia's cultural remains is shaped by the interlocked demands of tourism and global politics in such a way that the visible historical landscape is largely devoid of Arab-Islamic remains. This trend is the result of three related factors within the planning community: negligence, scarcity of resources for cultural heritage management (and for the conservation of Islamic remains in particular); international state policy focusing on the development of biblical remains for ideological (e.g., in Israel) or for economic reasons (as in Jordan). One might argue that it is not economically viable -especially in stressed economies such as Jordan's or Palestine's -to expend scarce resources on cultural heritage conservation. One goal of my work is to suggest that careful consideration of and investment in cultural heritage conservation is not a luxury and should not be neglected at the regional planning level

Youido Park: the transformation of a space in Korean memory

2000 The Mosque at Qastal

Qastal, 1998-2001

From the Abstract to the Concrete and Back Again: The Introductory Course in Religious Studies

So read a bright poster on the campus bulletin boards at Louisiana State University, where I desi... more So read a bright poster on the campus bulletin boards at Louisiana State University, where I designed my first introductory course four years ago. This thought took hold of me, and still holds my attention in a fierce grip: why don't we teach what we know? I did not understand this to be asking me why I taught things that were inaccurate, but why the material I taught was simplified to the point that it became uninformative or misleading. What follows is a description of my attempts to address that question for myself in the context of the introductory course.

Saving Other Women from Other Men: Disney's Aladdin

Figure 1: Aladdin and Jasmine on their magic carpet ride over Agrabah [source: toonpaperszone.blo... more

Drafts by Erin Addison

Is this sacred or what? -- The Holy Place & Tourism Destination at Jabal Haroun, Petra Region, Jordan

The Routledge Handbook of Halal Hospitality and Islamic Tourism, 2019

Ziyaara (visitation) to the holy site of Prophet Haroun was both an individual observance and an ... more Ziyaara (visitation) to the holy site of Prophet Haroun was both an individual observance and an annual, seasonal tradition in the Petra area of south Jordan until 1985. This chapter discusses how the regional political and economic situation in the 1980s and 1990s framed tourism, particularly, as a panacea for Jordan. Western donors propounded a certain ideal cultural climate for tourism development, the success of which was thought to indicate a positive context for investment in Jordan. The Hashemite regime positioned itself adroitly between trending Islamic conservatism and western donors of foreign aid, shaping local religious practices and ultimately determining the selection of holy sites officially sanctioned by the regime. The discussion explores the ways both Salafi-influenced attitudes toward ziyaara and western constructions of inclusion, tolerance and religious moderation are reflected in the one-hundred, currently most-searched websites for Jabal Haroun in Arabic and English. As she crests the steep trail to the small white shrine an American tourist exclaims in awe, " Is this sacred or what!? " But she isn't talking about the shrine – she's exclaiming over the panoramic mountain view.

The mosque at al-Qasṭal. Report from al-Qasṭal conservation and development project, 1999-2000

Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan, 2000

Documenting deforestation at Sidd al-Ahmar, Petra Region, Jordan

The Nature of Culture: in search of the 'real' landscape of Petra

The Conservation of Traditional Crops Project, Jordan

Political effluent: Implementing wastewater re-use in Wadi Musa, Jordan

The Roads to Ruins: accessing Islamic heritage in Jordan

Doing With and Doing Without: water use patterns amongst the Qastal Fayez of Bani Sakhr

Constructing the Cultural Landscape in Southwest Asia

The following paper addresses the balance -or tension -between globalization and cultural integri... more The following paper addresses the balance -or tension -between globalization and cultural integrity in the cultural heritage management of southwest Asia. The thesis contends that the management of southwest Asia's cultural remains is shaped by the interlocked demands of tourism and global politics in such a way that the visible historical landscape is largely devoid of Arab-Islamic remains. This trend is the result of three related factors within the planning community: negligence, scarcity of resources for cultural heritage management (and for the conservation of Islamic remains in particular); international state policy focusing on the development of biblical remains for ideological (e.g., in Israel) or for economic reasons (as in Jordan). One might argue that it is not economically viable -especially in stressed economies such as Jordan's or Palestine's -to expend scarce resources on cultural heritage conservation. One goal of my work is to suggest that careful consideration of and investment in cultural heritage conservation is not a luxury and should not be neglected at the regional planning level

Youido Park: the transformation of a space in Korean memory

2000 The Mosque at Qastal

Qastal, 1998-2001

From the Abstract to the Concrete and Back Again: The Introductory Course in Religious Studies

So read a bright poster on the campus bulletin boards at Louisiana State University, where I desi... more So read a bright poster on the campus bulletin boards at Louisiana State University, where I designed my first introductory course four years ago. This thought took hold of me, and still holds my attention in a fierce grip: why don't we teach what we know? I did not understand this to be asking me why I taught things that were inaccurate, but why the material I taught was simplified to the point that it became uninformative or misleading. What follows is a description of my attempts to address that question for myself in the context of the introductory course.

Saving Other Women from Other Men: Disney's Aladdin

Figure 1: Aladdin and Jasmine on their magic carpet ride over Agrabah [source: toonpaperszone.blo... more

Is this sacred or what? -- The Holy Place & Tourism Destination at Jabal Haroun, Petra Region, Jordan

The Routledge Handbook of Halal Hospitality and Islamic Tourism, 2019

Ziyaara (visitation) to the holy site of Prophet Haroun was both an individual observance and an ... more Ziyaara (visitation) to the holy site of Prophet Haroun was both an individual observance and an annual, seasonal tradition in the Petra area of south Jordan until 1985. This chapter discusses how the regional political and economic situation in the 1980s and 1990s framed tourism, particularly, as a panacea for Jordan. Western donors propounded a certain ideal cultural climate for tourism development, the success of which was thought to indicate a positive context for investment in Jordan. The Hashemite regime positioned itself adroitly between trending Islamic conservatism and western donors of foreign aid, shaping local religious practices and ultimately determining the selection of holy sites officially sanctioned by the regime. The discussion explores the ways both Salafi-influenced attitudes toward ziyaara and western constructions of inclusion, tolerance and religious moderation are reflected in the one-hundred, currently most-searched websites for Jabal Haroun in Arabic and English. As she crests the steep trail to the small white shrine an American tourist exclaims in awe, " Is this sacred or what!? " But she isn't talking about the shrine – she's exclaiming over the panoramic mountain view.