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- Aguiar Borges, Luciane, 1969, et al.
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Reviewing Neighborhood Sustainability Assessment Tools through Critical Heritage Studies
- 2020
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Ingår i: Sustainability. - : MDPI AG. - 2071-1050. ; 12:4
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article reports on a critical review of how cultural heritage is addressed in two internationally well-known and used neighborhood assessment tools (NSAs): BREEAM Communities (BREEAM-C) and LEED Neighborhood Design (LEED-ND). The review was done through a discourse analysis in which critical heritage studies, together with a conceptual linking of heritage to sustainability, served as the point of departure. The review showed that while aspects related to heritage are present in both NSAs, heritage is re-presented as primarily being a matter of safeguarding material expressions of culture, such as buildings and other artifacts, while natural elements and immaterial-related practices are disregarded. Moreover, the NSAs institutionalize heritage as a field of formal knowledge and expert-dominated over the informal knowledge of communities.
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- Benesch, Henric, 1972, et al.
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Keeping things in common
- 2015
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Ingår i: Heritage as Common(s) - Common(s) as Heritage. - Göteborg : Makadam Publishers. - 9789170611643
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Introduction in book from Curating the City Seminar Series, part of Critical Heritage studies Initiateve at the University of Gothenburg
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- Ghantous, Wassim, et al.
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The Great March of Return facing the Israeli settler colonial control : The Great March of Return facing the Israeli settler colonial control
- 2018
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Ingår i: School of Blogal Studies: Making sense of the world..
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Between the 30th of March and the 15th of May, more than one hundred #Palestinians were killed and ten thousands were wounded in the mass #protests along the barriers between the Gaza Strip and #Israel. The protesters called for the Palestinians’ right of return to their homes and lands from which they were expelled in 1948. Despite escalating protests, the USA and Israel celebrated the relocation of the US #embassy from Tel Aviv to #Jerusalem on a high-pitch tone. The simultaneity of these events became bizarre, if not hawkish. How can we understand these events?
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- Hammami, Feras, 1978
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Conservation, innovation and healing of the well-preserved medieval Ystad
- 2015
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Ingår i: Urban Research and Practice. - 1753-5069. ; 8:2, s. 165-195
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article investigates the discursive powers that authorise and legitimise heritage practices in Ystad, which has a reputation as one of the best preserved medieval towns in Scandinavia. To maintain this reputation, the discursive and material heritage of certain groups and periods of history are projected at the expense of others, albeit in a legitimised manner. Methods of discursive analysis, supported by Smith’s ‘authorised heritage discourse’ and Harvey’s ‘heritageisation’, show that a static approach to heritage, assimilative and exclusionary in nature, has protected Ystad’s material heritage. This approach has never been challenged but is perpetually adjusted within frameworks of dominant and subversive ideologies, producing adverse and overlooked social and spatial consequences. Heritage practices need new perspectives on entrenched habits of thought and new trajectories within the political dynamics of planning strategies, both of which are often unrecognised by the means commonly used to measure the legitimation of intervention in heritage.
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- Hammami, Feras, 1978-
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Conservation Under Occupation : Conflictual Powers and Cultural Heritage Meanings
- 2012
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Ingår i: Planning Theory & Practice. - : Routledge. - 1464-9357 .- 1470-000X. ; 13:2, s. 1-24
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article investigates the influence of power struggles on conservationinterventions. It looks at the effect that conflict over meaning-making in representations ofcultural heritage can have on an inhabited historic environment. Narratives of particularinterventions and historically developed discourses are analyzed to explore how they becomesocially appropriated. An analytical framework is developed to unfold the narrative and heritagedimensions of interventions in the Historic City of Nablus. Focusing on the periods of “peace”and “Second Intifada”, the conclusions show how actual conservations in occupied societies arenot only influenced by direct violence, but are also enmeshed with discursive control overheritage questions relating to identity and superiority.
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- Hammami, Feras, 1978-
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Conservation under Occupation in the Historic City of Nablus
- 2010
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Drawing on Foucault’s conceptualisation of power - as a set of actions performed upon other actions andreactions - this article aims to understand the mechanisms behind cultural conservation where nexus ofconflictual powers is particular densified as an effect of both an occupation force and the internationalcommunity intervention. Thereby, it examines the way discourses of cultural meanings are formed,transformed and correlated influenced by the multiple powers involved in the politics of cultural conservation.The link between discourse and power is illustrated through a particular enactment of a concrete research inwhich the Historic Centre of Nablus in Palestine is identified as a case. Conflict of power relations and interestsis a universal question however it becomes a unique phenomenon when happening in an occupied society. Thisarticle argues that occupation force, local resistance and international community interventions have exposedthe cultural resources of the Palestinian Historic centres to ‘concentrated’ processes of both ‘destruction’ and‘conservation’. Understanding the current mechanisms behind cultural conservation may therefore explorepossible ways for locally-sensitive cultural conservation.
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- Hammami, Feras, 1978-
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Cultural resources as a development asset
- 2007
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- On a premise that cultural heritage preservation is a tool for urban development and poverty alleviation with civil society as a potential partner, the aim of the study is to contribute to deeper knowledge on how civil society may perform in response to the threat of loss of cultural heritage value and adequate living environment in historic areas when central and local government is incapacitated – a situation worsened by current political situation. The research objectives - through an exploratory, descriptive and explanatory methodological approach involving a local case study – are to produce results anticipated to enable a normative discussion on how to capacitate civil society represented by individuals and civic institutions to efficiently prevent and improve their cultural heritage value and use it as a development asset.
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- Hammami, Feras, 1978-
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CULTURE AND PLANNING FOR CHANGE AND CONTINUITY :
- 2009
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper aims to examine the value of cultural considerations in urban planning and to contribute to the current discussion on Botswana’s planning system. ‘Integrated Conservation’ and ‘Cultural Planning’, as two dominant international streams on culture and planning, are compared with the local context of Botswana to identify possibilities and challenges for the planning review. The Town and Country Planning Act, in addition to two case study areas, is presented to highlight the Botswanan context. The results reveal a distinct need for a shift from ‘planning for culture’ to ‘cultural institutionalisation’, where the traditional division between ‘bottom-up’ and ‘top-down’ urban development tendencies is challenged to allow a wider scale of actors and interests to interact deliberately rather than engage.
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- Hammami, Feras, 1978-
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Culture and Planning for Change and Continuity in Botswana
- 2012
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Ingår i: Journal of planning education and research. - : SAGE Open. - 0739-456X .- 1552-6577. ; 32:3, s. 262-277
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper examines how culture might be integrated in planning by critically rethinking the role of planners and knowledge inthe planning systems of postcolonial contexts. The empirical study of cultural conception and utilization in Botswana suggestsa shift from planning for culture to cultural institutionalization, where culture, rather than as an object, becomes integral todevelopment planning decisions. The traditional division between bottom–up and top–down approaches is challenged, so asto allow a wider range of actors and views to interact during the entire planning process.
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- Hammami, Feras, 1978
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Fighting Denial of the Right to the Past: Heritage-Backed Bodily Resistance and Performance of Refugeeism and Return
- 2022
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Ingår i: Theorizing Heritage through Non-Violent Resistance. - New York : Palgrave Macmillan Cham. - 2634-6419 .- 2634-6419. - 9783030777081
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter researches the emerging struggle for return from below, as a practice enriching and subverting diplomatic efforts in the post-Oslo times. Postponing the right of return from peace talks has prompted Palestinian refugees to explore alternative means for return. Groups of internally displaced Palestinians with Israeli citizenship moved to live on their sites of expulsion, challenging the Israeli law that criminalized their action. I will bring their story into a dialogue with the broader narratives of both the Palestinian national liberation movement and the Zionist settler colonial power, to unpack their dynamics of resistance. Interviews with activists showed that living with the ruins and the reproduction of history and memory of an-Nakba from below enabled them to transform their identity from ‘refugees’ to ‘citizens’, invert their vulnerability into resource for resistance, and restore the sense of urgency of an-Nakba history.
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- Hammami, Feras, 1978
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Geographies of Heritage and Heritage Activism
- 2015
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Ingår i: 7th International Conference of Critical Geography (ICCG) Precarious Radicalism on Shifting Grounds: Towards a Politics of Possibility. 26-30 July 2015, Ramallah, Palestine.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Hammami, Feras, 1978, et al.
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Heritage and Peace-Building? Reflections from Nablus, Nazareth, and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
- 2014
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Ingår i: 2nd International Conference of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies. Canberra, Australia, 2-4th December 2014.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Israel-Palestinian remains one of the world’s most challenging and intractable conflicts. Over the last 100 years, the conflict has revolved around the critical questions of identity, history, legitimacy and presence, and the conflict itself has become a heritage that is progressively inherited by successive generations. Heritage places – and heritage development more generally – enable people to engage in issues of heritage as they negotiate these questions in their everyday life under conflict. This study is carried out by two researchers that are directly and personally connected to the conflict. They will independently explore the potential of community-based heritage efforts at two sites to engage actors in new forms of discourse about their experiences in the conflict. Feras Hammami will explore these questions in the historic city of Nablus in Palestine. The city has evolved during the British Mandate and the Israeli occupation into a site of resistance, where struggles for liberation are mobilized and traumatic experiences are rehearsed. Feras argues that these experiences have become peoples’ difficult heritage that they ought to renegotiate when “peace” is proposed. Daniel Laven will explore the highly acclaimed Fauzi Azar Inn, which is located in the historic district of Nazareth, Israel. Operated as a social business, the inn is the result of an Arab-Jewish partnership and shares the experience of the conflict with its clientele. After exploring the two heritage places, Feras and Daniel will engage in critical reflections on how heritage allows for constructive negotiation of identity and history, and thereby open up for discussion on ways that heritage may divide as much it unites in such settings.
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- Hammami, Feras, 1978, et al.
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Heritage and peacebuilding : Challenges, possibilities and sustainable practices
- 2022
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Ingår i: Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Heritage. - London : Routledge. - 9781003038955 - 9781000594850 ; , s. 241-260
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This handbook presents cutting-edge and global insights on sustainable heritage, engaging with ideas such as data science in heritage, climate change and environmental challenges, indigenous heritage, contested heritage and resilience. It does so across a diverse range of global heritage sites.Organized into six themed parts, the handbook offers cross-disciplinary perspectives on the latest theory, research and practice. Thirty-five chapters offer insights from leading scholars and practitioners in the field as well as early career researchers. This book fills a lacuna in the literature by offering scientific approaches to sustainable heritage, as well as multicultural perspectives by exploring sustainable heritage in a range of different geographical contexts and scales. The themes covered revolve around heritage values and heritage risk; participatory approaches to heritage; dissonant heritage; socio-environmental challenges to heritage; sustainable heritage-led transformation and new cross-disciplinary methods for heritage research.This book will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars in heritage studies, archaeology, museum studies, cultural studies, architecture, landscape, urban design, planning, geography and tourism.
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- Hammami, Feras, 1978, et al.
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Heritage and resistance: irregularities, temporalities and cumulative impact
- 2018
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Ingår i: International Journal of Heritage Studies. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1352-7258 .- 1470-3610. ; 24:5, s. 445-464
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Urban social change and large-scale demolitions in the name of urban renewal often give rise to social conflicts. In this study, we investigate how resistances to this change emerge, coalesce and revolve, and how they use heritage to generate cumulative impact. The analyses of urban change and resistance in Gårda, a working-class neighbourhood of Gothenburg, Sweden, showed social conflicts to be instigated by their stigmatisation. Since the 1970s, Gårda has been called ‘out of place’ and marked for demolition. These demolitions were given legitimacy by the ‘housing quality standards’ that emerged in the 1930s as a means to reduce social inequalities. Over time these standards became an ‘intangible heritage’ employed in neoliberal urban policies. In response, five ‘Re-Gårda’ resistance strategies emerged to contest Gårda’s future. Resistance groups uncovered new values for Gårda, curating the vision with the slogan ‘have a coffee in Gårda’, and structuring the narrative ‘upgrade Gårda’. This challenged the dominant discourse ‘demolish’ or ‘conserve’ Gårda, and resulted in a government decision to protect Gårda as a ‘heritage site’. Investigating heritage and resistance in Gårda helped us reveal the potential of resistance in challenging the limits of authorised urban and heritage discourses, and in realising socially equal and just cities.
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- Hammami, Feras, 1978, et al.
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Heritage and Resistance: Theoretical Insights
- 2022
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Ingår i: Theorizing Heritage through Non-Violent Resistance. - New York : Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. - 2634-6419 .- 2634-6427. - 9783030777074
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)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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- Hammami, Feras, 1978, et al.
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Heritage and Urban Resistance: Exploring Identity Politics, Commons and Conflict
- 2017
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Urban resistances have erupted in several countries, disrupting everyday life and challenging urban policies and planning. This project looks at how heritage and resistance both as concepts and as empirical realities for people on the ground are fundamentally interdependent and today constitute multiple sites of conflict. The same sites, objects, and evidence of the past are often claimed by diverse community groups in ways that make everyday life a micro dynamics of negotiating identity, recognition and sense of place. How often-contradictory positions on heritage are entangled in policies for the management of contested heritage sites will be investigated in Palestine, Turkey, and Sweden
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- Hammami, Feras, 1978
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Heritage, Conflict, War and Peace(building)
- 2023
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Ingår i: Cultural Heritage Day, Center for Critical Heritage Studies, and Kulturarvsakademin (KAS), GU..
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Hammami, Feras, 1978-
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Heritage in Authority-Making : Appropriating Interventions inThree Socio-Political Contexts
- 2012
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The perpetual evolution of the value of heritage in urban development is producing newsocio-spatial realities, shaped by different relationships of power at multiple scales.Heritage has always played an important role in the construction of individual andgroup identities, but is now increasingly seen as a capital for the making of cityidentity. Although professional heritage practices have attempted to embrace a similaror parallel vision, they are likely to overlook how interventions in heritage challengeidentity, meaning and sense of place. This thesis employs methods of discursiveanalysis to investigate the evolution and the appropriation of heritage in three sociopoliticalcontexts: Botswana, a post-colonial society; Palestine, an occupied society;and Sweden, a developed Western society. It also uncovers the ways authority is put towork through the discursive field of heritage in historic environments.Heritage in Palestine under the rule of the Ottoman Empire, British Mandate, and theIsraeli Occupation has been engulfed by both armed and discursive struggles overhistory, identity, and superiority. Narratives of the ‘Holy Land’ in addition to thepressures of the occupation forces and international interventions have shaped currentheritage practices in the Historic City of Nablus. In Botswana, Western planning ideashave been promoted in both the colonial and post-colonial eras, with little attention tolocal culture. The socio-spatial realities this produces have divorced the Batswana fromthe familiar and played an authoritarian role in defining valuable heritage in thedevelopment of Shoshong village and Sowa town. Heritage in the town of Ystad,Sweden, has since the late nineteenth century been regulated and legitimized through aconsistent inscription of a medieval identity on the town landscape, overlooking socialand spatial consequences.These findings are presented in four papers that each addresses a specific aspect ofheritage in urban development. An introductory monograph links the articles,developing theoretical analyses on how heritage-authority relations. This discussiongoes beyond direct practices of authority in management of physical heritage. Instead,it uncovers how heritage is utilised to gain and reinforce authority over identity politicsin historic environments. It also sheds light on how discursive struggles over meaningin the three cases are influenced by a ‘universalized heritage discourse’. In thisdiscourse, heritage is perceived as physical things representing a specific version of thepast, framed by European values and controlled by professional expertise andconventional knowledge. This discourse is rooted in the ‘authorized heritage discourse’that emerged in Europe in the nineteenth century and disseminated globally throughinternational treaties on heritage. Situating site-specific interventions in their social,cultural, and political contexts would allow for productive dissonance, rather thannarrow mediations of competing views. The virtue of working with heritage in the faceof authority at different spatial scales is stressed as one way to build sufficient capacityin heritage practices, capacity that would allow individuals and social groups to freelynegotiate their identity against any intervention in their spaces of heritage.
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- Hammami, Feras, 1978-
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Integrated Preservation as a Tool for Urban Policies : Case Study of the Historic City of Nablus
- 2006
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Competing forces in urbanisation avert cultural heritage, resulting in loss of assets, disparate development and severe consequences for the poor. Lack of awareness to the value of Cultural Heritage and its conservation among politicians, planners, concerns of stakeholders prevents heritage conservation as an integral part of planning and development. On a premise that conservation is a tool for integrated urban development, the research project examined - through an identified case study: the Historic City of Nablus, Palestine - how cultural heritage and its conservation contribute into the city growth and development, poverty alleviation, improvement of living conditions and promotion of the Historic City image and attractiveness. Site visits and field observations, key informants interviews and analysis of documents and maps were a threefold method that used in the case study analyses. Results obtained from this study showed that there is lack of integrated conservation into urban planning and development. This lack of conservation starts from institutional set-ups and organisation and ends by projects implementations and operational processes. Thus, the study has contributed into the existing conservation policy as acknowledgments at three different levels: policy; institution; and design level. A slow-steps concept has been proposed to frame the correlation between these three different levels of influence. This concept interpreted by the end of the study discussion into strategic priorities and framework for action in the Historic City. Along with, an urgent need for institutional reform and capacity building based decentralization approach and cross-sectoral correlation. Civic engagement and public private partnerships in the conservation practices were also proposed as two main variables in approaching sustainable urban development. Conclusions from this study have been formulated into a form of recommendations to the local authorities, municipalities and local community representatives.
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- Hammami, Feras, 1978
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Issues of mutuality and sharing in the transnational spaces of heritage – contesting diaspora and homeland experiences in Palestine
- 2016
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Ingår i: International Journal of Heritage Studies. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1352-7258 .- 1470-3610. ; 22:6, s. 446-465
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Wars, colonialism and other forms of violent conflict often result in ethnic cleansing, forced dispersion, exile and the destruction of societies. In places of diaspora and homelands, people embody various experiences and memories but also maintain flows of connections, through which they claim mutual ambitions for the restoration of their national identity. What happens when diaspora communities ‘return’ and join homeland communities in reconstruction efforts? Drawing on heritage as metaphorical ‘contact zones’ with transnational affective milieus, this study explores the complex temporalities of signification, experiences and healing that involve both communities in two specific sites, Qaryon Square and Al-Kabir Mosque, located in the Historic City of Nablus, Palestine. Conflicts at these two sites often become intensified when heritage experts overlook the ‘emotional’ and ‘transnational’ relationships of power that revolve around the diverging narratives of both communities. This study proposes new methodological arts of the contact zone to enhance new ways in heritage management that can collective engage with the multiple and transnational layers of heritage places beyond their geographic boundaries and any relationship with defined static pasts. Such engagement can help explore the contentious nature of heritage and the resonances it may have for reconciliation in post-violent conflict times.
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- Hammami, Feras, 1978-
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Legitimation of Interventions in Historic City Areas : The case of the Well-preserved Ystad
- 2012
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Ingår i: Urban Research and Practice. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1753-5069 .- 1753-5077.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article investigates the discursive practices that work to authorize and legitimizeparticular heritage meanings and modes of conservation practices in historic city area. Despitedemocratic governance attempts to employ ‘inclusive’ conservation practices, certain groups’discursive and material heritages become projected at the expense of others, albeit in alegitimized manner. It is argued in this article that discursive struggles in heritage practicesare historically rooted, producing social and spatial consequences that are often overlooked inpolicy discourses and documents. Using methods of discursive analysis, this argument isexamined in Ystad, known as one of the best preserved historic towns in the Scandinaviancountries. Study findings show that Ystad has become ‘well-preserved’ because it has notbeen allowed to change. While ‘well-preserved’ embraces protected materiality, it does notnecessarily mean sensitive attention to local values and cultural qualities.
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- Hammami, Feras, 1978, et al.
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Linking Heritage to Resistance
- 2022
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Ingår i: Theorizing Heritage through Non-Violent Resistance. - New York : Palgrave Macmillan Cham. - 2634-6419 .- 2634-6427. - 9783030777081
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Theorizing Heritage Through Resistance, as a contribution, process, and structure, is introduced in this chapter. It begins with snapshots of waves of resistance and social movements that erupted in different parts of the world, and inspired the editors’ engagement in the intersection of heritage and resistance. In light of these movements, the book focused on illustrating the ways through which heritage become involved in these movements and on identifying heritage-inspired purposeful practices. Working in the intersection of heritage and resistance in different situations of conflict, the book searched for opportunities for justice-making. This chapter ends with explaining the book structure, including the geography and contribution of chapters.
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- Hammami, Feras, 1978
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Methodological Insights Within the Intersection of Heritage and Resistance Research
- 2022
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Ingår i: Theorizing Heritage through Non-Violent Resistance. - New York : Palgrave Macmillan Cham. - 2634-6419 .- 2634-6427. - 9783030777081
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- 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.
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- Hammami, Feras, 1978
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New Urban Imaginaries through heritage and resistance
- 2017
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Ingår i: RC21 CONFERENCE 2017 “Rethinking Urban Global Justice”, September 11-13, Leeds, UK.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Working class neighbourhoods have been since nineteenth century targeted by modernisation and other forms of neoliberal urban policies. In Sweden, like in many other countries, the destruction of such neighbourhoods sparked diverse forms of social conflicts, and promoted new debates on how to manage these conflicts following issues of social sustainability and justice. This study investigates heritage-resistance relations within the context of social conflicts and (re-)urbanisation. A critical heritage perspective is used to explore the ways resistances emerge, coalesce and revolve, and how they generate impact. Heritage and resistance are conceived here as being deeply enmeshed in everyday negotiations of identity and as productive, continuously evolving and surging practices. Employing ethnographic methodology on urban transformations in Gårda, a working-class neighbourhood, Sweden, and the local responses to it, showed that these transformations are entangled in a process of heritageisation that began during the industrial revolution in the city of Gothenburg. ‘Housing quality standards’ from the 1930s became an ‘intangible heritage’, and unconsciously employed in neoliberal urban policies, giving legitimacy to urban transformations. After six years of ‘irregular’ contestations and protests, accumulative effect of resistance ‘succeeded’ in instigating new heritage values, expressed through a new vision for the future of Gårda, with the slogan, ‘have a coffee in Gårda’. These values and vision helped challenge the two dominant discourses, ‘demolish’ or ‘conserve’ Gårda, and promoted a third discourse that demanded politicians ‘upgrade Gårda’ following a new urban imaginary for Gothenburg in which Gårda becomes a potential partner. Unfolding these heritage-resistance dialogues helped better understand current urbanisation and social conflicts in Gothenburg.
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Politics of Emotion in Heritage Works
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Ingår i: Heritage and Healthy Societies: Exploring the Links among Cultural Heritage, Environment, and Resilience. University of Massachusetts Amherst, May 14-16, 2014.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Heritage in Palestine has always been utilised for issues of nationalism, superiority, identity and authority. Conflicts sometime escalate into violence politics, challenging both professional heritage practices and people identity. This study investigates the micro politics of “heritage works” in Palestine to uncover the ways conflicts are dealt with, and thereby activate a new dialogue on the relationship between heritage and society. The empirical analysis focused on the renovation works that have been carried out in the Qaryon Square and Al-Kabir Mosque, located in the Historic City of Nablus (HCN), during the period of peace (1993-2000) and the Second Intifada (Palestinian uprising against the occupation, 2000-today). The continuous military incursions in the HCN have resulted in massive destruction and killing, commemorated through the display of martyr’s photos and sculptures in the public spaces. The HCN has become a site of emotions. Visiting, living or working there engages people in emotional performances of heritage, and makes any outsider feel insider. This finding suggests professional heritage practices to situate “heritage” within a larger context than materiality and ourselves, find critical connections to the others and the pasts, and recognize emotions in heritage analysis. The would provide a deeper understanding of the relationship between heritage and society, and allow for contextualized professional heritage practices.
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- Hammami, Feras, 1978, et al.
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Rethinking heritage from peace: reflections from the Palestinian-Israeli context
- 2017
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Ingår i: Heritage and Peacebuilding. Eds.: Diana Walters, Daniel Laven & Peter Davis. - Woodbridge : Boydell & Brewer. - 9781783272167
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Case-studies of whether and how heritage can be used to bring about reconciliation. This volume explores one of the most critical issues of our time: whether heritage can contribute to a more peaceful society and future. It reflects a core belief that heritage can provide solutions to reconciling peoples and demonstrates the amount of significant work being carried out internationally. Based round the core themes of new and emerging ideas around heritage and peace, heritage and peace-building in practice, and heritage, peace-building and sites, the twenty contributions seek to raise perceptions and understanding of heritage-based peace-building practices. Responding to the emphasis placed on conflict, war and memorialization, they reflect exploratory yet significant steps towards reclaiming the history, theory, and practice of peacebuilding as serious issues for heritage in contemporary society. The geographical scope of the book includes contributions from Europe, notably the Balkans and Northern Ireland, the Middle East, and Kenya. Diana Walters is an International Heritage Consultant and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Exeter; Daniel Laven is Associate Professor of Human Geography, Department of Tourism Studies and Geography/European Tourism Research Institute (ETOUR), Mid Sweden University; Peter Davis is Emeritus Professor of Museology, Newcastle University. Contributors: Tatjana Cvjeticanin, Peter Davis, Jonathan Eaton, David Fleming, Seth Frankel, Timothy Gachanga, Alon Gelbman, Felicity Gibling, Will Glendinning, Elaine Heumann Gurian, Lejla Hadzic, Feras Hammami, Lotte Hughes, Bosse Lagerqvist, Daniel Laven, Bernadette Lynch, Elena Monicelli, Yongtanit Pimonsathean, Saleem H. Ali, Sultan Somjee, Peter Stone, Michèle Taylor, Peter van den Dungen, Alda Vezic, Jasper Visser, Diana Walters.
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Review of the Botswana Town and Country Planning Act from a Cultural Point of View
- 2007
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Rapport (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- The aim of this study is to contribute into the discussion on the current review of the spatial planning and relevant legislation. The focus has been on the Town and Country Planning (TCP) Act. Before conducting the review of the Act the field research started by carrying out analyses of the local values and process of urban planning. Therefore Shoshong village have been analysed to develop some understandings of Tswana culture. This was followed by analyses of Sowa town which was planned and designed based on Tswana culture. With the empirical findings in mind, the TCP Act and other spatial and relevant legislation have been analysed, showing how the planning system lack attention to the local values and have consequently contributed in the loss of Botswana’s cultural identity. The results were discussed at the National Museum where representatives of a number of government, civic, and voluntary institutions were invited.
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Rupture in heritage: strategies of dispossession, elimination and co-resistance
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Ingår i: Settler Colonial Studies. - 1838-0743.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Diaspora and Israel Jews are increasingly engaging their historical narratives of liberation within new forms of co-resistance to the Israeli Occupation, a history that controversially has been weaponized by the settler colonial power to manifest its dispossessive policies. ‘Occupation is not our Judaism’ has become a political slogan to mobilise Jews against land confiscation, house demolitions, trees uprooting, interrogations, and the Annexation Wall. Activists are concerned about the enactment of violence in the name of Judaism, and seek to contest the establishment of a Jewish nation-state as a solution to antisemitism. Their Jewish identities are articulated on the basis of Israel-centrism, and through intersectional struggles for universal liberation. This article explores the ways in which Jewish historical narratives inform the settler colonial policies in Palestine and the counter activism in which Jews play a potential role. It focuses on the patterns of ‘co-resistance’ which emerged after the collapse of the Oslo Accords of 1993. While co-existence was propagated during the 1990s to reveal the occupier and occupied as two equal sides, co-resistance emerged as a counter narrative in which Jewish and Palestinian activists stand in solidarity against the occupation. Interviews and on-site observations in the Old Town of Hebron showed how heritage and history have been weaponized by settlers to construct Jewish-only enclaves and to destroy the social and spatial realities that signify the collective identity of the Natives. Despite the failure of co-resistance to reverse the settlement project, the interviewed activists saw it as a viable form of resistance to this project. This article explored its potential in dismissing any claim that casts the settler colonial project in Hebron as a natural return of Hebron’s Jews to their history, and to link Nakba to tikkun olam, challenging its exclusion from the moral universe of the Jewish legacies of liberation.
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The Scopic Feast of Heritage and the Invention of Unthreatening Diversity in Neoliberal Cities
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Ingår i: Heritage. - : MDPI AG. - 2571-9408. ; 4:3, s. 1660-1680
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article explores the role that heritage might play in the representation of ‘difference’, within the context of neoliberal cities. The case is a large-scale urban change in the former working-class neighborhood of Gamlestaden, Sweden. Interviews and on-site observations revealed how authorized heritage practices can enable the celebration of particular social and cultural values, while naturalizing the erasure of others. People’s cultural diversity, and diverging interpretations of the past, have been guided by the power of heritage into a process of subjectification, according to which only ‘unthreatening’ forms of cultural diversity were celebrated and revealed legitimate. The ‘fetishized’ difference and particular historical records have served to conceal the political interest at stake in its’ production and maintenance, and led to a politicised representation of cultural diversity through what Annie Coombes’ terms ‘scopic feast’. All this was made possible through BID, the first neoliberal business improvement district model in Sweden, and its investment in a deeply rooted process of heritageisation. Uncritical engagement with difference in the context of heritage management and neoliberal urban development, make it appear almost natural to erase the cultural values that fall outside the authorized narrative of value.
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The Signifying System of Heritage : the Case of the Historic City of Nablus
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Ingår i: Social & cultural geography (Print). - : Taylor & Francis Group. - 1464-9365 .- 1470-1197.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study investigates the role of civil society organizations in heritage practices in Palestine,where conservation is under pressure from the Israeli occupation and international interventions.It argues that current approaches to heritage focus on physical heritage as a ‘signifier’ for localcultural qualities and meanings, overlooking how the meanings of heritage are continuouslyreconstructed, influenced by the socio-political conditions under occupation. Drawing onWilliams’ definition of culture as a ‘realized signifying system’, these approaches are reversedby addressing the civil society organizations as ‘the signifier’, unfolding the socio-politicaldeficits of current approaches.
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Transnational Spaces of Heritage Politics - the Case of Nablus
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Ingår i: Peace Conference: Post Conflict, Cultural Heritage and Regional Development.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This study investigates the extent to which local social organizations are refiguring perceptions of heritage promoted through transnational advocacy networks in the Historic City of Nablus, Palestine. The establishment of a Western-centric structure of NGOs during the peace, 1993-2000, promoted new relationships of power within the ‘signifying systems’ of heritage. Despite their community outreach, their managerial, professional and authoritarian spaces have challenged the ways heritage has evolved within the everyday rehearsal of remembering and forgetting, resistance to occupation, and reconstruction of the geographical imaginaries of national identity. The analysis of heritage practices in the Qaryon Square and Al-Kabir Mosque uncovered significant conflicts over meaning, identity and sense of place that are often overlooked in professional heritage practices, not only in Palestine but also worldwide. These practices fail to begin by seeing the geopolitical natural of heritage as a structuring imposition that embraces historically developed subversive ideologies and discursive struggles over authority, that reinforces non-contextual existences of heritage, and that reproduces a heritage discourse that is exclusionary by nature.
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Understanding the cultural heritage landscapes in rural Palestine: Exploring local conceptions in the village of Dair Ghassaneh
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Ingår i: 26th session of the Permanent European Conference for the Study of the Rural Landscape UNRAVELING THE LOGICS OF LANDSCAPE.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- On a land that is still under occupation heritage is a critical issue that is highly related to the national identity. For heritage to continue to survive there is an urgent need for understanding the challenges of the current socio-political situation and the planning for the future of heritage laden landscapes in Palestine. This research aims at exploring local conceptions of heritage landscape in rural Palestine; as rural areas are characterized by their intact natural and cultural richness that are under threat due to the enforced constrains by the occupation practices. The village of Dair Ghassaneh, located to the north west of Ramallah City in the West Bank, is the case. Dair Ghassaneh is one of the throne villages that have played an important role during the ottoman empire, a history that has been reflected on its built environment and social life. This study followed a bottom up approach to heritage and planning, exploring the diverse relationships between the locals and their physical built environment. The idea is to develop a deeper understanding of how conceptions of heritage are constructed in relation to locals' values, needs, expectations and priorities, and to explore possibilities for better integration of heritage in rural planning. The results uncovered influential factors in how heritage landscape is conceived in rural areas and how these conceptions shape rural development and planning.
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Urban Resistance: New Heritage and Commons in Conflict Situations.
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Ingår i: 2nd International Conference of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The past decades have witnessed rapid growth of urban dissent and resistances, including everyday life insurgencies, protests, riots, and urban social movements, challenging the way cities are planned and managed. Protesters with different backgrounds united by similar sense of discontent from the current situation are likely to produce new (spaces of) ‘commons’. These commons, as conceived by protesters, could be either -temporarily secured even enclosed- physical places or places with borders in the imaginary. This paper investigates how heritage and urban resistance both as concepts and as empirical realities for people on the ground are fundamentally interdependent and today contribute and characterize new forms of conflicts and ‘commons’. Rather than ‘governing common-pool resources’ (Ostrom 1990), the commons in this study is seen as ‘the shared conceptualization of time and temporal values created by a culture-carrying collectivity’ (Bluedorn & Waller 2006) in ‘dynamic’ and ‘shared’ spaces (Hardt and Negri, 2011) that are ‘open to all’ (Harvey 2012: 72). Along this unfolding of the ‘commons’ in its imaginary, institutional, and material forms, urban resistance is understood as part of everyday life, and profoundly relate to issues of identity, recognition and sense of place. These conceptions and arguments are underlain by preliminary investigation of the destruction of the Al-Qaryon Square, located in the Historic City of Nablus, as part of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict over history and presence, and the recent violent episodes that have erupted in Istanbul related to the re-construction of an Ottoman military barrack in Gezi Park. Both cases present diverse events and situations where people’s plural interpretations of, and claims on, the very same sites, objects, and evidence of the past are just one side of a coin that on the other, constitutes micro dynamics of negotiating conflict, inclusion/exclusion, security, recognition and identity with regard to the very same sites, objects, and evidence of the past. Urban resistances in both cases not only unfold diverse socio-spatial relationships based on competing interpretation of the past, but they also construct and reconstruct aspects of new ‘shared heritage’ and ‘commons’. While these findings provide deeper understanding of urban resistance and conflicts in/over the commons, they also open up for new understanding of heritage and its commoning in contemporary societies. Such an approach to conflict in the commons may help us to make theoretical and political sense of the contemporary phenomena of urban resistance.
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Heritage as Common(s) - Common(s) as Heritage
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The book consitutes the printed outcome of a seminar series run by the Critical Heritage Initiative (University of Gothenburg) and the Urban Heritage Cluster (Curating the City).
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