Heritage Reconstruction and People

This book examines heritage reconstruction and its relationship to community recovery after cultural trauma. Its content and structure situate it within a new body of theory concerned to shift focus from physical buildings and ensembles to people, from the material to the social. The contributions integrate the social meaning of heritage with the subjective feelings and needs of individuals engaged in processing cultural trauma. The collection of studies touches upon sociological, psychological, healing, and anthropological dimensions of heritage recovery.

The new question that this book brings to the heritage discourse is: Can cultural heritage serve as a medium for healing societal trauma? The volume is divided into five thematic sections: 1. Coming to terms with the past; 2. Inclusiveness; 3. Building Resilience; 4. People in Focus; 5. Crossing borders. The nexus between people and heritage is explored through case studies on diverse recovery contexts - Bosnia, Gazza, Syria, Iraq, Uganda, Albania, Nepal, Zanzibar, Lebanon different practices of international organisations, and formative documents of contemporary international doctrine. Difficult issues of justice, ethics, human rights, sustainable development, and the lengthy process of coming to terms with life after trauma are brought into contact with technical challenges and cultural, historical, and economic contexts. The book establishes the theory of inclusive heritage discourse, which reconciles informal heritage practices and authorised heritage discourse, and will be relevant for academic researchers, students and professionals in the field of heritage studies but also in conflict, human rights, and humanitarian studies.

Gives a comprehensive insight into potentials of heritage in post trauma recovery of people Covers a vast array of heritage reconstruction aspects through case studies from different parts of the world Addresses the most appealing and complex contemporary challenges related to heritage protection and social distress

Autorentext

Amra Hadimuhamedovi is President of the HIDR Centre for Peace and Heritage in Sarajevo, at the International Forum Bosnia, where she previously worked as Director of the Centre for Cultural Heritage. A leading expert in the implementation of Annex 8 of the Dayton Peace Accord for Bosnia and Herzegovina, she has directed numerous projects integrating cultural heritage into post-war recovery in Bosnia, Kosovo, Palestine, and Iraq. She has served as a consultant for UNESCO, ICCROM, the World Bank, ICOMOS International, OSCE, ARC-WH, Welfare, and other organizations. From 2010 to 2019, she taught History of Architecture and Architectural Conservation at the International University of Sarajevo, and has guest-lectured at universities across the USA and Europe. She has published widely, including the books Heritage, War and Peace (2014); Human Rights and Destruction of Cultural Memory (ed. 2005); and Bosnia: Destruction of Cultural Heritage (co-author, 2015). She founded ISSYH, a school for sustainable, inclusive, resilient, and holistic heritage recovery within HIDR, attended by emerging professionals engaged in post-trauma reconstruction worldwide. She has served on the Council of Europe’s Committee for Cultural Heritage (CDPAT), contributed to the drafting of the Faro Convention and Parliamentary Assembly Recommendation 2071 (2015), and participated in the scientific and steering boards of INTERREG EC projects. An ICCROM Fellow (2008), delegate and later Vice-President of the ICCROM General Assembly, she has been involved in UNESCO’s Mondiacult 2025 Report on Culture and Peace, the World Bank–UNESCO CURE paper, and joint ICOMOS–ICCROM initiatives on recovery and reconstruction. She is co-editor of Analysis of Case Studies in Recovery and Reconstruction, reviewer of the Peacebuilding Assessment Tool for Heritage Recovery and Rehabilitation (PATH), advisor for Community-Based Heritage Indicators for Peace, and member of both the Europa Nostra Advisory Panel for the 7 Most Endangered and the Council of the European Heritage Hub.

Inhalt

Part 1. Introduction.- Chapter 1. A Postscript at the Threshold: The Ever-Evolving Urge to Recover the Residues of Culture from the Ruins (Hadimuhamedovi).- Chapter 2. An Introduction to Heritage Reconstruction and People in Post-Trauma Social Recovery (Hadimuhamedovi).- Part 2. Coming to Terms with the Past.- Chapter 3. Edges or Limits: Architectural Ghosts in the Maze of Reconstruction (Kealy).- Chapter 4. Heritage Economics in Post-Disaster Reconstruction (Ost).- Chapter 5. The Recovery and Reconstruction of Cultural Heritage: The Socio-Economic Approach (Marcinkowska).- Chapter 6. Can Digital Heritage Technologies Support the Post-Trauma Recovery of Communities? Opportunities and Challenges (Quintero).- Chapter 7. Towards Sustainable Post-War Recovery of the Old City of Aleppo: Evaluation of the Rehabilitation of the Suq al-Saqatiyya as a Pilot Project (Kasmo and Kuteifan).- Part 3. Inclusiveness.- Chapter 8. Destruction of Heritage as a Strategy of Mass Violence: Assessing Harm to Inform Meaningful Measures of Repair (Viejo-Rose and Killean).- Chapter 9. Historical Trauma and Cultural Heritage: INTIQAL-2030 in the Gaza Strip (AlAmasi et al).- Chapter 10. ALIPH's Experience Protecting Heritage to Build Peace: The Early Lessons of ALIPH's Efforts to Protect Heritage in Conflict and Post-Conflict Areas (Freland et al).- Chapter 11. Peacebuilding through Heritage Rebuilding: Inclusive Heritage Discourse and Post-war Recovery in Bosnia (Hadimuhamedovi).- Part 4. Building Resilience.- Chapter 12. War Scars between Erasure and Semantic Transformation: Lessons from Post-Trauma Reconstruction in Beirut. (Haïdar)- Chapter 13. People and Heritage in Yemen: Where to? (Alshawesh and Hadimuhamedovi).- Chapter 14. Time Travel in Heritage Reconstruction: The Case of the Kasubi Royal Tombs at Kampala, Uganda (Nsubuga).- Chapter 15. National Reconciliation as a Pre-requisite for National Heritage Conservation: The House of Wonders and Zanzibar Stone Town (Sheriff).- Part 5. People in Focus.- Chapter 16. The Bigger Picture of Recovery: Conservation Challenges related to Living Heritage and Value and Belief Systems in the Preservation and Reconstruction of Cultural Heritage at Patan Durbar Square (Haselberger et al).- Chapter 17. Cultural Heritage: A Gateway for Exiting the Syrian Crisis (Rajab)- Chapter 18. The Post-Earthquake Recovery of Tower C in Durrës, Albania (Mamani et al).- Chapter 19. Reviving the Spirit of Mosul: The Reconstruction of Cultural Landmarks as a Tool to Foster Reconciliation in Post-Conflict Recovery (Acetoso et al).- Part 6. Crossing borders.- Chapter 20. Responding to Challenges in the Reconstruction and Recovery of World Heritage Sites (Rössler).- Chapter 21. Political Will in Strategic and Integrated Reconstruction: The Example of Angkor (Bouchenaki).- Chapter 22. The Development of ICCROM Approaches in the Reconstruction of Cultural Properties during Post-Conflict Recovery Processes (Aslan).- Chapter 23. World Monuments Fund Lessons from the Field: Heritage Recovery in Post-Crisis Areas (Montlaur).