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 -...

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Main Author:	Huss, Michal (Author)
Corporate Author:	Walter de Gruyter & Co
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press ©2026
Series:	Global Heritage and Memory Studies in the Present.
Subjects:	SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Refugees. Migration, immigration and emigration. Urban communities. Tourism geography. Amsterdam University Press AUP History, Art History, and Archaeology HIS Contemporary History CONTEMP HIS Contemporary Society CONTEMP SOC Cultural Studies CULTURAL Heritage and Memory Studies HEST Middle East MID EAST Urban Cultures URBAN AUP Wetenschappelijk AUP WETENSCH Cosmopolitanism, Tourism, Urban history, Difficult heritage, Displacement Electronic books.
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Summary:	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, <cite>Remaking Urban Heritage</cite> 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.
Item Description:	"Amsterdam University Press" Abstract/ Cover blurb 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
Physical Description:	1 online resource (232 pages) illustrations.
ISBN:	9048566118 9789048566112