Urban Heritage in Divided Cities: Contested Pasts

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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 reinvention
		Heritage 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 discussion
		References
	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 South
		Normalisation 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 war
		Conclusion: 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
		Conceptual premises: From critical heritage studies to access theory
		Access to housing and (un)designated heritage sites
		Conflict and discordance at the crossroads of two heritage sites
			Takia Fateh Shah: (In)tangible heritage, syncretic practices and sense of belonging
		Conclusion
		Acknowledgements
		Notes
		References
	9 Segregation, gentrification and heritage in Fredericksburg, Virginia: A preservation perspective
		Introduction
		The historic pattern of injustice in Fredericksburg
			The origins of Fredericksburg
			The landscape of slavery in Fredericksburg: Integrated injustice
			Fredericksburg after the Civil War: Invisible divisions
			Fredericksburg during Jim Crow
		Healing a divided history
			The obdurate residential separation
			Fredericksburg today: Heritage tourism as economic engine
		The future: Renewed divisions or healing?
		References
	10 Heritage as a mediator of socio-spatial segregation: Cartagena de Indias, Colombia
		Towards a pluralist notion of heritage
		Historic roots of Cartagena’s segregation
		Heritage tourism as a social segregator of Cartagena in the twenty-first century
		Conclusion
		References
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
		Post-war redevelopment
		Heritage, memory and identity
			Pre-war heritage
			Memories of the Civil War
		Conclusion
		References
	12 Entrepreneurial heritage-making in post-Wall Berlin: The case of New Potsdamer Platz
		The entrepreneurial city
		The history of Potsdamer Platz until the fall of the Berlin Wall
		History for sale: Public–private partnerships
		The planning process: Heritage-making as field of conflict
		The construction process: Transforming the building site into an entertainment site
		Imaginary walk through New Potsdamer Platz
		Discussion
		Conclusions: The patination of the present
		Note
		References
	13 Dealing with the spatial remnants of conflict in Belfast: The Andersonstown Barracks site in West Belfast
		Introduction
		Dealing with contested heritage in post-conflict societies
		Northern Ireland and Belfast after the Belfast Agreement
		The former Andersonstown Barracks site in West Belfast
		Discussion and conclusion
		Note
		References
	14 Performing imaginary healings: The post-conflict heritage of Ebrington Barracks
		Introduction
		A divided city
		The built heritage of Ebrington Barracks
		Regenerating the site
		Performing Ebrington
		Necessary forgetting
		Conclusion
		References
	15 Contested collective memory in the segregated city of Cape Town
		Introduction
		The setting
		Ordinary people and sites of struggle in the Cape Flats
			The Trojan Horse Massacre (1985)
			The Gugulethu Seven (1986)
			Ashley Kriel (1987) and Anton Fransch (1989)
			Coline Williams and Robert Waterwitch (1989)
		Discussion: Post-apartheid memorialisation
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
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