Theorizing Heritage through Non-Violent Resistance

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxi

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2. Introduction: Linking Heritage to Resistance

   • Feras Hammami, Evren Uzer

   Pages 1-18

3. Exercising Our Rights to Past: Emergent Heritage Activism in Istanbul

   • Evren Uzer

   Pages 19-39

4. Acting Out the Future of the Albanian National Theatre: New Heritage at the Intersection of Resistance and New Media

   • Kailey Rocker, Jonathan Eaton

   Pages 41-69

5. Mapping More-than-Nostalgia of the ‘Pits’: Heritage Co-production as a Creative Resistance to Deindustrialization

   • Sarah De Nardi

   Pages 71-90

6. Authenticity and Struggle: Historicising Skateboarding as ‘Action Art’ on London’s South Bank

   • David Webb

   Pages 91-115

7. Imagining Heritage Beyond Proprietorship, Contesting Dispossession Beyond the Power-Resistance Binary: Occupy-Style Protests in Turkey, 2013–2014

   • Eray Çaylı

   Pages 117-137

8. Fighting Denial of the Right to the Past: Heritage-Backed Bodily Resistance and Performance of Refugeeism and Return

   • Feras Hammami

   Pages 139-164

9. Reproductions, Excavations and Replicas: New Materialities in Response to Destruction

   • David Ayala-Alfonso

   Pages 165-183

10. Ethnoscaping Green Resistance: Heritage and the Fight Against Fracking

    • Scott Burnett

    Pages 185-212

11. The Epistemic Work of Decolonization and Restitution: A Critical Conversation

    • Ciraj Rassool, Evren Uzer, Feras Hammami

    Pages 213-230

12. Methodological Insights Within the Intersection of Heritage and Resistance Research

    • Evren Uzer, Feras Hammami

    Pages 231-256

13. Heritage and Resistance: Theoretical Insights

    • Feras Hammami, Evren Uzer

    Pages 257-279

14. Back Matter

    Pages 281-289

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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.

• heritage
• resistance
• social conflict
• urban restructuring
• neoliberal economic development
• displacement
• disinheritance
• decolonization
• resistance studies
• heritage activism
• heritage studies
• from below
• right to the city
• dispossession

• Department of Conservation, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

  Feras Hammami

• Parsons School of Design, The New School, New York, USA

  Evren Uzer

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.