Heritage, Gentrification and Resistance in the Neoliberal City

Publication Type:

book

Date Issued:

2022

Editors:

Feras Hammami , Daniel Jewesbury , Chiara Valli

Publisher:

Berghahn Books

Language:

eng

DOI:

10.3167/9781800735729

ISBN:

978-1-80073-572-9

Abstract:

What happens when versions of the past become silenced, suppressed, or privileged due to urban restructuring? In what ways are the interpretations and performances of ‘the past’ linked to urban gentrification, marginalization, displacement, and social responses? Authors explore a variety of attempts to interrupt and interrogate urban restructuring, and to imagine alternative forms of urban organization, produced by diverse coalitions of resisting groups and individuals. Armed with historical narratives, oral histories, objects, physical built environment, memorials, and intangible aspects of heritage that include traditions, local knowledge and experiences, memories, authors challenge the ‘devaluation’ of their neighborhoods in official heritage and development narratives.