Abstract
This chapter theorizes on the intersection of heritage and resistance, building on empirical findings reported from different situations of conflicts in which people’s diverging rights to heritage are contested, negotiated, or even violated. Heritage and resistance are brought into conservation here to explore opportunities for a positive change. Conceived as a verb and a process, heritage has an agency. It expands into areas of life and policy, and uncritical engagement in the intersection of heritage and resistance can lead not only to unnoticed processes of biases, exclusion, or racism, but can also jeopardize their potential for the production of socially equal and just spaces. In conclusion, this chapter identifies the potentials and limitations of the intersection, manifested in the interlinked concepts of justice, value, and right.
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Although the Burra Charter was specific to the context of Australia, it was internationally adopted to undermine the WCNS. It supported a shift towards ‘place’ instead of monuments and sites, and this resulted in the inclusion of new historic places on the list of outstanding universal value. Despite these changes, the focus on the ‘tangible’ aspects of heritage continued to prevail in both international and national politics of heritage. New calls have also emerged demanding the recognition of the heritage values of non-monumental societies (loose-foot communities, tribals and Bedouins) (Smeets, 2004, p. 39).
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Hammami, F., Uzer, E. (2022). Heritage and Resistance: Theoretical Insights. In: Hammami, F., Uzer, E. (eds) Theorizing Heritage through Non-Violent Resistance. Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77708-1_12
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