Politics of Post-Conflict Heritage Reconstruction

Nour A. Munawar is an archaeologist and UNESCO heritage expert and currently works as a research fellow at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). He is the principal investigator of the “Decolonial Futures: Heritage, Memory, and Narratives in the Making in MENA” research project funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). He also works as a UNESCO Researcher for the UNESCO Documentary Heritage Unit on the “Documentary Heritage for Intercultural dialogue – a case study of AlUla, Saudi Arabia”.Gertjan Plets is an associate professor in Cultural History and Heritage at Utrecht University. At Utrecht he coordinates and conducts research in the field of heritage politics, theoretical archaeology, corporate sponsorship and Russian cultural politics. He broadly approaches cultural heritage as a cultural expression and political statement. His regional focus is Russia and the post-colonial Netherlands.

• Chapter 1: Introduction: Theories and temporalities of post-conflict heritage: The importance of a normative approach.- Chapter 2: “We are the Masters” The prioritized reconstruction of Ypres (Belgium, World War I).- Chapter 3: The quotidianisation of spaces of violence: On how spaces of violence from the Spanish Civil War became normalised by the active choice of “leaving them be”.- Chapter 4: Reconstructing the phantom: The imagined heritage of the Saxon Palace in Warsaw.- Chapter 5:The Bridge to Transition: Post-conflict heritage as a tool of development in Mostar (Bosnia and Herzegovina).- Chapter 6: The roots of recovery: Àbàchà and the reconstruction of Intangible Heritage in postwar southeastern Nigeria.- Chapter 7: “Save Carthage”: Post-Conflict Reconstruction in Postcolonial Tunisia.- Chapter 8: Governing Cultural Heritage in Time of Crises: Case study: Borobudur, Indonesia.- Chapter 9: Post-conflict Risks to Built Heritage Through the Lens of the Libyan City of Benghazi.- Chapter 10: The Trojan Horse of St. George on Tbilisi’s Freedom Square and Lessons from Georgia's post-2003 Reconstruction.- Chapter 11: Postscript: The Battle for Ukrainian Heritage: Reconstruction and Memory-making.