1st Edition

Securing Urban Heritage Agents, Access, and Securitization

Edited By Heike Oevermann, Eszter Gantner Copyright 2019
228 Pages
by Routledge

228 Pages 25 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

228 Pages 25 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Securing Urban Heritage considers the impact of securitization on access to urban heritage sites. Demonstrating that symbolic spaces such as these have increasingly become the location of choice for the practice and performance of contemporary politics in the last decade, the book shows how this has led to the securitization of urban public space. Highlighting specific changes that have been... Read more

Introduction Part I: Agents and Forms of Agency  1. Community Involvement in Times of Social Insecurity  2. Participatory Matters: Access, Migration, and Heritage in Berlin Museums  3. Agents, Access, and Cultural Policies of Sharing in Kyoto City and Osaka  4. Urban Heritage, Communities, and Environmental Sustainability  Part II: Technology, Heritage, and Access  5. Securitization through Digitalization and Visualization  6. Documenting Modernity  7. Urban Nuclear Reactors and the Security Theatre: The Making of Atomic Heritage in Chicago, Moscow and Stockholm  Part III: Securing Urban Heritage in Time and Space  8. Fences and Defences: Matters of Security in the City Park, Budapest 9. Rewriting History: Interpreting Heritage in Saint Petersburg and Istanbul  10. Disregarding Youth Proposals: Intangible Heritage, Securitization and Soccer Fan Groups in México  11. (Re)activated Heritage: Negotiating Socialist History in the Urban Space of Luanda  Conclusion

Biography



Heike Oevermann is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in interdisciplinary urban and heritage studies at the Georg Simmel Center for Metropolitan Studies, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin in Germany.





Eszter Gantner is a postdoctoral researcher with a focus on urban history and heritage studies at the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe in Marburg, Germany.