Heritage, Gentrification and Resistance in the Neoliberal City

Feras Hammami is associate professor of conservation, placed at the Department of Conservation, University of Gothenburg. His research concerns the politicization of cultural heritage within urban planning and development, with a specific interest in the purposeful practices of heritage.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 currently employed as a project researcher at the department of Urban Studies, Malmö University. Chiara's research deals with housing, gentrification, housing financialization, socio-economic and ethnic urban segregation, displacement, social movements, and resistance, with empirical research in Sweden, Italy, and the US.

“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,

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsPrefaceIntroduction: Exploring Injustices through Heritage in the Neoliberal CityFeras Hammami, Daniel Jewesbury and Chiara ValliPart I: Heritage through Gentrification in the Post-Industrial CityChapter 1. Theorizing Heritage in the Post-Industrial CityMaris Boyd GilletteThis 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 AreaHelena HolgerssonChapter 3. ‘Cleaning up’ Heritage in the Post-Industrial City: Making Heritage, Gentrification and Legitimacy in GamlestadenFeras Hammami and Chiara ValliPart II: Gentrification through Heritage-Making and RemakingChapter 4. Beyond the Good, the Neutral and the Consensual: Heritage between the Police and the PoliticalVišnja KisićChapter 5. Whose Heritage, Whose City? Questions from the Revolting New York ProjectDon MitchellChapter 6. ‘Virtuous Marginality’ Revisited and Revised: Distance, Difference and the Selection of Objects of Preservation in an Era of Hyper-GentrificationJaponica Brown-SaracinoPart III: Gentrification through Heritage-Led ResistanceChapter 7. The Dynamic Authenticity of Local Mixed Streets: Street Heritage and Activism in Belfast City CentreAgustina Martire and Anna SkouraChapter 8. Gentrification and Public Heritage in Rome: The Potential and Ambiguities of the ‘Right to Buy’ Policy as a Strategy to Stay PutSandra Annunziata, edited by Loretta LeesChapter 9. Public Art, Docile Bodies and the ‘Post-Conflict’ CityDaniel JewesburyEpilogue: Reflections on Heritage, Gentrification, ResistanceDaniel Jewesbury, Feras Hammami and Chiara ValliIndex