Theorizing Heritage through Non-Violent Resistance

This book is about the entanglement of heritage and resistance in different situations of conflicts, and the opportunities this entanglement may provide for social justice. This entanglement is investigated in the different contributions through theoretical and empirical analyses of heritage-led resistance to neoliberal economic development, violation of the subaltern, authorised narratives and state-invented traditions, colonialism and settler colonialism, and even dominating discourses of social movement, to name just a few. Crossing the disciplinary boundaries of heritage and resistance studies, these analyses bring new insights into several timely debates, especially those concerned with the interrelated critical questions of displacement, gentrification, exclusion, marginalization, urbicide, spatial cleansing, dehumanization, alienation, ethnic cleansing and social injustice. Following our purposeful and future-driven approach, we wish to bring new energy to the field of heritage studies through the focus on the potential of heritage and resistance for hopeful change rather than adding to the field yet another overwhelming engagement with conflict and war.

Argues that resistance is becoming part of everyday life Investigates urban restructuring in different socio-political contexts Expands current understandings of heritage and resistance towards identity politics

Auteur
Evren Uzer is a NYC based educator, urban planner and community practitioner working on civic engagement in planning and design. Her current research focuses on activism, critical heritage studies and feminist spatial practices. She is Assistant Professor of Urban Planning at Parsons School of Design, USA, and also holds a researcher position at School of Design and Crafts, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Feras Hammami is associate professor of conservation, placed at the Department of Conservation, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. His research concerns the politicization of cultural heritage, and the opportunities heritage activism may provide for fighting injustices in cities. He is currently working on 'hopeful', or more purposeful approaches to heritage, and on reconciliatory heritage practices. He previously conducted research in relation to sites located in Palestine, Botswana and Sweden.

Contenu

1. Chapter 1: Linking Heritage to Resistance.- 2. Chapter 2: Exercising our rights to the past: Emergent heritage activism in Istanbul.- 3. Chapter 3: Acting Out the Future of the Albanian National Theatre: New Heritage at the Intersection of Resistance and New Media.- 4. Chapter 4: Mapping more-than-nostalgia of the 'pits': co-production as creative resistance to the flattening of coal-mining communities.- 5. Chapter 5: Authenticity and struggle: historicising skateboarding as 'action art' on London's South Bank.- 6. Chapter 6: Imagining Heritage Beyond Proprietorship, Contesting Dispossession Beyond the Power Resistance Binary: Occupy-style Protests in Turkey, 2013-14.- 7. Chapter 7: Fighting denial of the right to the past: heritage-backed bodily resistance and performance of refugeeism and return.- 8. Chapter 8: Reproductions, Excavations and Replicas: New Materialities in Response to Destruction.- 9. Chapter 9: Ethnoscaping GreenResistance: Heritage and the fight against fracking.- 10. Chapter 10: The epistemic work of decolonisation and restitution: a conversation with Ciraj Rassool.- 11. Chapter 11: Methodological approaches and challenges of conducting research on heritage and resistance.