While contests and conflicts are well recognized in heritage research, analysis of the specific
circumstances and dilemmas that individuals and groups face when pursuing heritage goals …

Urban social change and large-scale demolitions in the name of urban renewal often give
rise to social conflicts. In this study, we investigate how resistances to this change emerge …

The countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) have only recently discovered
their modern industrial heritage as an object of conservation and future development …

For Graham SealThis paper probes the relationship between visual representations and
visitation practices at Pasargadae, a UNESCO World Heritage site in southern Iran …

Landlord villages dominated Iranian land tenure for hundreds of years, whereby one
powerful landlord owned the village structures, surrounding farmland, and to all intents and …

This paper aims to study the impacts of complex political changes on the material and socio-
cultural dimensions of the heritage gardens, which initially belonged to the nobilities of …

Between 2009 and 2011, the Kurdish sculptor Hadî Ziaoddînî created a statue of poet
Mestûre Erdalan (1805–1847), in the city of Sine (Sanandaj, Iranian Kurdistan or Rojhelat) …

This chapter offers a new perspective on the 'New Acropolis Museum'(currently known as
the Acropolis Museum) in Athens, Greece. It does so by focusing on the conflicts that …

Architecture is the meeting point of development, culture, and the environment.
Development usually challenges traditions and leads to environmental and cultural …

This chapter theorizes on the intersection of heritage and resistance, building on empirical
findings reported from different situations of conflicts in which people's diverging rights to …