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Book Synopsis 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.
Trade Review “Heritage, Gentrification and Resistance in the Neoliberal City is a timely and relevant volume that presents a cohesive interdisciplinary focus on how the processes, borders, and injustices of gentrification are produced and challenged through the lens of heritage in cities of the Global North. The critical heritage perspective that this volume foregrounds asserts considerations of heritage as a key player – on equal footing as economic, political, and environmental concerns - in the fast capitalist transformations that post-industrial cities are experiencing globally today.” • Krysta Ryzewski, Wayne State University
“… this manuscript offers much needed dialogue on the topic of heritage and its role/resistance in the neoliberal city…while there are several individual works out there on the topic, I have not found a comprehensive work that addressed the various intersections needed for a critical exploration of gentrification and heritage. This one does so beautifully while directly connecting heritage to politics of identity and memory in a neoliberal city.” • Kelly M Britt, Brooklyn College,
Table of Contents List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction: Exploring Injustices through Heritage in the Neoliberal City
Feras Hammami, Daniel Jewesbury and Chiara Valli
Part I: Heritage through Gentrification in the Post-Industrial City
Chapter 1. Theorizing Heritage in the Post-Industrial City
Maris Boyd Gillette
This chapter is available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. The author gratefully acknowledges funding from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond for the project 'Mining for tourists in China,' grant no. Dnr P18-0515:1. Not for resale.
Chapter 2. The Value of the Uncool: Reflections on the Demolition of an Old Re-used Industrial Area
Helena Holgersson
Chapter 3. ‘Cleaning up’ Heritage in the Post-Industrial City: Making Heritage, Gentrification and Legitimacy in Gamlestaden
Feras Hammami and Chiara Valli
Part II: Gentrification through Heritage-Making and Remaking
Chapter 4. Beyond the Good, the Neutral and the Consensual: Heritage between the Police and the Political
Višnja Kisić
Chapter 5. Whose Heritage, Whose City? Questions from the Revolting New York Project
Don Mitchell
Chapter 6. ‘Virtuous Marginality’ Revisited and Revised: Distance, Difference and the Selection of Objects of Preservation in an Era of Hyper-Gentrification
Japonica Brown-Saracino
Part III: Gentrification through Heritage-Led Resistance
Chapter 7. The Dynamic Authenticity of Local Mixed Streets: Street Heritage and Activism in Belfast City Centre
Agustina Martire and Anna Skoura
Chapter 8. Gentrification and Public Heritage in Rome: The Potential and Ambiguities of the ‘Right to Buy’ Policy as a Strategy to Stay Put
Sandra Annunziata, edited by Loretta Lees
Chapter 9. Public Art, Docile Bodies and the ‘Post-Conflict’ City
Daniel Jewesbury
Epilogue: Reflections on Heritage, Gentrification, Resistance
Daniel Jewesbury, Feras Hammami and Chiara Valli
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