Urban heritage in divided cities: contested pasts

by Frank, Sybille Ristic, Mirjana

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

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, the Americas, 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.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2020.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:Abingdon, Oxon
Language:eng
Publication Date:2020.

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Description:1 online resource

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780429460388, 0429460384, 9780429863554, 0429863551, 9780429863530, 0429863535, 9780429863547, 0429863543
DOI:10.4324/9780429460388
oclc:on1090278586
LC Classification:HT153
Dewey Decimal:307.76

Cover; Half Title; Series Information; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of contents; List of Figures; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Contested Pasts In Divided Cities: Introduction; Transformations of heritage as 'conflict by other means'; Segregated heritage; Dealing with contested heritage; References; Part I Transformations of heritage as 'conflict by other means'; 2 Heritage necropolitics and the capture of Hebron: The logic of closure, fear, humiliation and elimination; Introduction; Linking heritage with necropolitics

Re-Hebron: Territorial fragmentation, displacement and reinventionHeritage necropolitics: The 'social killing' of Hebron; Geographies of closure and fear; Eliminating and legitimating; Dehumanising and killing 'the native'; The captured city; References; 3 Contested heritage-making as an instrument of ethnic division: Mitrovica, Kosovo; Introduction; Monuments as tools for heritage-making; The Ibar River Bridge as a symbol of Kosovo's contested history; Heritage-making as a tool for ethnic confrontation; Monument to Isa Boletini: 'Hero of Kosovo'; Monument to Prince Lazar: Serbian martyr

A city divided by heritage: Concluding discussionReferences;…

Subjects

CITIES Cities and towns Cultural property Guerre et société Historic sites historic towns LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Library … Lieux historiques SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology Villes War and society