Urban heritage in divided cities : contested pasts / edited by Mirjana Ristic and Sybille Frank.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ristic, Mirjana, editor.

Frank, Sybille, editor.

Series:

Key issues in cultural heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns.

Cultural property.

Historic sites.

War and society.

Physical Description:

xiv, 267 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

Summary:

Urban Heritage in Divided Cities explores the role of contested urban heritage in mediating, subverting and overcoming sociopolitical conflict in divided cities. Investigating various examples of transformations of urban heritage around the world, the book analyses the spatial, social and political causes behind them, as well as the consequences for the division and reunification of cities during both wartime and peacetime conflicts. Contributors to the volume define urban heritage in a broad sense, as tangible elements of the city, such as ruins, remains of border architecture, traces of violence in public space, and memorials, as well as intangible elements like urban voids, everyday rituals, place names and other forms of spatial discourse. Addressing both historic and contemporary cases from a wide range of academic disciplines, contributors to the book investigate the role of urban heritage in divided cities in Africa, Asia, North America, Europe and the Middle East. Shifting focus from the notion of urban heritage as a fixed and static legacy of the past, the volume demonstrates that the concept is a dynamic and transformable entity that plays an active role in inquiring, critiquing, subverting, and transforming the present. Urban Heritage in Divided Cities will be of great interest to academics, researchers and students in the fields of cultural studies, sociology, the political sciences, history, human geography, urban design and planning, architecture, archaeology, ethnology and anthropology. The book should also be essential reading for professionals who are involved in governing, planning, designing and transforming urban heritage around the world.

Contents:

1 Contested pasts in divided cities: Introduction p. 1 / Mirjana Ristic and Sybille Frank

Part I Transformations of heritage as 'conflict by other means' p. 13

2 Heritage necropolitics and the capture of Hebron: The logic of closure, fear, humiliation and elimination p. 15 / Feras Hammami

3 Contested heritage-making as an instrument of ethnic division: Mitrovica, Kosovo p. 35 / Mattias Legner and Mirjana Ristic and Simona Bravaglieri

4 Nicosia hotspot: Visualities of memory and heritage in the Greek Cypriot urban space p. 53 / Vicky Karaiskou

5 Lefkosa versus Lefkosia: The heritage of conflict p. 70 / Zeynep Gunay

6 The division of Aleppo city: Heritage and urban space p. 87 / Zeido Zeido and Nura Ibold

Part II Segregated heritage p. 105

7 Divided histories of the Pacific War: Revisiting 'Changi's' (post) colonial heritage p. 107 / Anoma Pieris

8 Heritage of inclusion or exclusion? Contested claims and access to housing in Amritsar, India p. 125 / Helena Cermeño

9 Segregation, gentrification and heritage in Fredericksburg, Virginia: A preservation perspective p. 145 / Christine Rae Henry and Andréa Livi Smith

10 Heritage as a mediator of socio-spatial segregation: Cartagena de Indias, Colombia p. 162 / César Augusto Velandia Silva and Juan José Ospina-Tascón and Mirjana Ristic

Part III Dealing with contested heritage p. 173

11 An island in sectarian seas? Heritage, memory and identity in post-war redevelopment of Beirut's central district p. 175 / Scott Bollens

12 Entrepreneurial heritage-making in post-Wall Berlin: The case of New Potsdamer Platz p. 192 / Sybille Frank

13 Dealing with the spatial remnants of conflict in Belfast: The Andersonstown Barracks site in West Belfast p. 210 / Henriette Bertram

14 Performing imaginary healings: The post-conflict heritage of Ebrington Barracks p. 225 / Tom Maguire

15 Contested collective memory in the segregated city of Cape Town p. 240 / Cecil Madell and Martin Murray.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Urban heritage in divided cities

ISBN:

9781138624863

1138624861

9781138624870

113862487X

OCLC:

1090283645