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

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

Index

Heritage, Gentrification and Resistance in the Neoliberal City

Edited by Feras Hammami, Daniel Jewesbury, and Chiara Valli

232 pages, 36 illus., bibliog., index

ISBN 978-1-80073-572-9 Hb Published (July 2022)

eISBN 978-1-80073-573-6 eBook

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“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,

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.

Feras Hammami is an urban policy analyst and associate professor of conservation at the Department of Conservation, University of Gothenburg.

Daniel Jewesbury is an artist and writer, and a senior lecturer in Fine Art at HDK-Valand Academy, University of Gothenburg. Daniel has been researching urban development across Europe for 20 years, through both his published writing and an art practice that encompasses film, photography, and performance.

Chiara Valli is a social and economic geographer and an associate senior lecturer in Urban Studies at Malmö University.

Series: Volume 5, Explorations in Heritage Studies

Subject: Heritage Studies Cultural Studies (General) History (General)

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LC: HT170 .H467 2022

BISAC: SOC002010 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Anthropology/Cultural & Social; ARC024010 ARCHITECTURE/Buildings/Landmarks & Monuments; HIS000000 HISTORY/General

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