1st Edition

Urban Heritage in Divided Cities Contested Pasts

Edited By Mirjana Ristic, Sybille Frank Copyright 2020
284 Pages 64 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

284 Pages 64 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

284 Pages 64 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

1. CONTESTED PASTS IN DIVIDED CITIES: INTRODUCTION, Mirjana Ristic and Sybille Frank

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, Feras Hammami

3. CONTESTED HERITAGE-MAKING AS AN INSTRUMENT OF ETHNIC DIVISION: MITROVICA, KOSOVO, Mattias Legnér, Mirjana Ristic and Simona Bravaglieri

4. NICOSIA HOTSPOT: VISUALITIES OF MEMORY AND HERITAGE IN THE GREEK CYPRIOT URBAN SPACE, Vicky Karaiskou

5. LEFKOSA VS. LEFKOSIA: THE HERITAGE OF CONFLICT, Zeynep Gunay

6. THE DIVISION OF ALEPPO CITY: HERITAGE AND URBAN SPACE, Zeido Zeido and Nura Ibold

Part II: SEGREGATED HERITAGE

7. DIVIDED HISTORIES OF THE PACIFIC WAR: REVISITING "CHANGI’S" (POST)COLONIAL HERITAGE, Anoma Pieris

8. HERITAGE OF INCLUSION OR EXCLUSION? CONTESTED CLAIMS AND ACCESS TO HOUSING IN AMRITSAR, INDIA, Helena Cermeño

9. SEGREGATION, GENTRIFICATION AND HERITAGE IN FREDERICKSBURG, VIRGINIA: A PRESERVATION PERSPECTIVE, Christine Rae Henry and Andréa Livi Smith

10. HERITAGE AS A MEDIATOR OF SOCIO-SPATIAL SEGREGATION: CARTAGENA DE INDIAS, COLOMBIA, Cesar Augusto Velandia Silva, Juan José Ospina-Tascón and Mirjana Ristic

Part III: DEALING WITH CONTESTED HERITAGE

11. AN ISLAND IN SECTARIAN SEAS? HERITAGE, MEMORY AND IDENTITY IN POST-WAR REDEVELOPMENT OF BEIRUT’S CENTRAL DISTRICT, Scott Bollens

12. ENTREPRENEURIAL HERITAGE-MAKING IN POST-WALL BERLIN: THE CASE OF NEW POTSDAMER PLATZ, Sybille Frank

13. DEALING WITH THE SPATIAL REMNANTS OF CONFLICT IN BELFAST: THE ANDERSONSTOWN BARRACKS SITE IN WEST BELFAST, Henriette Bertram

14. PERFORMING IMAGINARY HEALINGS: THE POST-CONFLICT HERITAGE OF EBRINGTON BARRACKS, Tom Maguire

15. CONTESTED COLLECTIVE MEMORY IN THE SEGREGATED CITY OF CAPE TOWN, Cecil Madell and Martin Murray

Biography

Mirjana Ristic is Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Sociology, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany. Her research is focused on political issues in architecture and urban design, including the role of buildings and public spaces in mediating nationalism, conflict, power, violence and resistance. She has a PhD from the University of Melbourne.

Sybille Frank is Professor for Urban Sociology and Sociology of Space in the Department of Sociology at the Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany. Her work focuses on the sociology of space and place, on urban conflicts and on the effects of social change on the fields of tourism and heritage-making.