Theorizing Heritage through Non-Violent Resistance

Evren Uzer is a NYC based educator, urban planner and community practitioner working on civic engagement in planning and design. Her current research focuses on activism, critical heritage studies and feminist spatial practices. She is Assistant Professor of Urban Planning at Parsons School of Design, USA, and also holds a researcher position at School of Design and Crafts, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.Feras Hammami is associate professor of conservation, placed at the Department of Conservation, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. His research concerns the politicization of cultural heritage, and the opportunities heritage activism may provide for fighting injustices in cities. He is currently working on ‘hopeful’, or more purposeful approaches to heritage, and on reconciliatory heritage practices. He previously conducted research in relation to sites located in Palestine, Botswana and Sweden.

• 1. Chapter 1: Linking Heritage to Resistance.- 2. Chapter 2: Exercising our rights to the past: Emergent heritage activism in Istanbul.- 3. Chapter 3: Acting Out the Future of the Albanian National Theatre: New Heritage at the Intersection of Resistance and New Media.- 4. Chapter 4: Mapping more-than-nostalgia of the ‘pits’: co-production as creative resistance to the flattening of coal-mining communities.- 5. Chapter 5: Authenticity and struggle: historicising skateboarding as ‘action art’ on London’s South Bank.- 6. Chapter 6: Imagining Heritage Beyond Proprietorship, Contesting Dispossession Beyond the Power Resistance Binary:  Occupy-style Protests in Turkey, 2013-14.- 7. Chapter 7: Fighting denial of the right to the past: heritage-backed bodily resistance and performance of refugeeism and return.- 8. Chapter 8: Reproductions, Excavations and Replicas: New Materialities in Response to Destruction.- 9. Chapter 9: Ethnoscaping GreenResistance: Heritage and the fight against fracking.- 10. Chapter 10: The epistemic work of decolonisation and restitution: a conversation with Ciraj Rassool.- 11. Chapter 11: Methodological approaches and challenges of conducting research on heritage and resistance.