Remaking Urban Heritage

Michal Huss
Title
Remaking Urban Heritage
Subtitle
Refugee Walking Tours in Berlin, Jaffa, and Tel Aviv
Price
€ 122,00 excl. VAT
ISBN
9789048566105
Format
Hardback
Number of pages
232
Language
English
Publication date
Dimensions
15.6 x 23.4 cm
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter One: Expanding the Geo-temporal Scope of Forced Displacement Research and Representation
Chapter Two: Refugees Show Their Berlin
Chapter Three: Refugees Reclaim Jaffa
Chapter Four: Refugees Re-contextualize Tel Aviv
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Appendix

Michal Huss

Remaking Urban Heritage

Refugee Walking Tours in Berlin, Jaffa, and Tel Aviv

This book follows the perspectives of refugee activists to examine cities shaped by layered histories of war, colonialism, and partition. Challenging the crisis-driven, state-centric frameworks that dominate migration and border studies – where refugees are often cast as passive victims or threats – the book foregrounds their agency in reimagining urban heritage. Moving beyond the edge of the state to the heritage sites of the urban sphere, Remaking Urban Heritage explores refugee-led walking tours in Berlin, Jaffa, and Tel Aviv, tracing the entangled geographies of the Middle East, Africa, and Europe. Through a participatory ‘walk-along’ ethnography grounded in artistic practice, the book reconceptualizes heritage-making as a dynamic, contested, and transcultural process. By centring refugee storytelling, performance, and spatial knowledge, it offers a critical intervention into memory, urban, and migration studies – urging scholars and practitioners to rethink the politics of belonging amid ongoing displacement and to attend to the fluidity of urban heritage.
Author

Michal Huss

Michal Huss is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow and Lecturer in Architectural Studies at the University of Manchester. Her research explores everyday life, memory, and resistance in post/colonial and divided cities, focusing on spatial justice.