Urban heritage in divided cities : : contested pasts / / edited by Mirjana Ristic and Sybille Frank.
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...
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Superior document: | Key issues in cultural heritage |
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Place / Publishing House: | Abingdon, Oxon ;, New York, NY : : Routledge,, 2019. |
Year of Publication: | 2019 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Key issues in cultural heritage.
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (285 pages). |
Notes: | Includes index. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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; 4 Nicosia hotspot: Visualities of memory and heritage in the Greek Cypriot urban space; Introduction; Historical frame; Methodology; Theoretical frame; A memory theatre; Emotional Hotspot I: The 'Green Line'; Emotional Hotspot II: Street names; Emotional Hotspot III: Religion and commemoration; Emotional Hotspot IV: The affective visuality of memorials; Epilogue; References; 5 Lefkosa versus Lefkosia: The heritage of conflict; 'My' Lefkosa and beyond; Looking through the 'wall': Heritage, politics and legacies in Lefkosa/Lefkosia
- Fabricating the heritage of conflict: North versus SouthNormalisation of conflict: Heritage remade; Concluding remarks: Reclaiming the heritage of Lefkosa/Lefkosia in the age of conflict; Notes; References; 6 The division of Aleppo city: Heritage and urban space; Introduction: The Syrian conflict; Built heritage in Aleppo; Urban and social changes in Aleppo since the late nineteenth century; The war division of Aleppo; The old city of Aleppo: Destruction and deterioration from the Syrian independence until pre-war time; The old city of Aleppo: Destruction during war
- Aleppo's virtual heritage archives and social media during the warConclusion: Old Aleppo, West Aleppo, East Aleppo; Notes; References; Part II Segregated heritage; 7 Divided histories of the Pacific War: Revisiting 'Changi's' (post)colonial heritage; The divided prison; The divided city; The carceral geography; A divided history; Commemorating the war; Divided heritage; Demolishing the prison; Conclusion; Notes; References; 8 Heritage of inclusion or exclusion?: Contested claims and access to housing in Amritsar, India1; Introduction