Endangered Urban Commons: Lahore’s Violent Heritage Management and Prospects for Reconciliation

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dc.date.accessioned2023-02-24T10:46:47Z
dc.date.available2023-02-24T10:46:47Z
dc.date.issued2023-01-30
dc.description.sponsorshipGefördert durch den Publikationsfonds der Universität Kassel
dc.identifierdoi:10.17170/kobra-202302247543
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/14442
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.doidoi:10.17645/up.v8i1.6054
dc.rightsNamensnennung 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/*
dc.subjectLahoreeng
dc.subjectPakistaneng
dc.subjectshared historyeng
dc.subjectstructural violenceeng
dc.subjecturban commons memoryeng
dc.subjectnostalgiaeng
dc.subjectevacuee propertyeng
dc.subjectheritage housingeng
dc.subject.ddc710
dc.subject.swdLahoreger
dc.subject.swdPakistanger
dc.subject.swdÖffentliches Gutger
dc.subject.swdKulturerbeger
dc.subject.swdWohnenger
dc.subject.swdDenkmalpflegeger
dc.subject.swdGefährdungger
dc.titleEndangered Urban Commons: Lahore’s Violent Heritage Management and Prospects for Reconciliationeng
dc.typeAufsatz
dc.type.versionpublishedVersion
dcterms.abstractThe debate on urban commons yields relevance for shared histories and heritage in divided and post-conflict societies. Albeit memory is always subjective, heritage management tends to engender a linear view of the past that suggests a preconceived future development. Where the past is denigrated to prove the impossibility of ethnoreligious communities’ coexistence even though they have lived together peacefully for centuries, it risks corroborating us-them divisions for posterity and undermines reconciliation and peacebuilding. In this historically informed article, we argue that urban change in Lahore since 1947 has gone hand in hand with the purposive destruction of the common heritage shared by India and Pakistan. This interpretation of the past for the future reflects different forms of violence that surface in heritage management. Based on empirical data collected on heritage practices in the Old City of Lahore, Pakistan, we analyse the approach of the Walled City of Lahore Authority towards heritage management. Our focus on ignored dimensions and objects of heritage sheds light on the systematic denial of a shared history with Hindus and Sikhs before and during the 1947 partition of British India. This partial ignorance and the intentional neglect, for instance, of housing premises inhabited once by Hindus and other non-Muslim minorities, prevent any constructive confrontation with the past. By scrutinising the relationship between urban change, nostalgia, memory and heritage, this article points out that heritage management needs to be subjected to a constructive confrontation with the past to pave the ground for future reconciliation.eng
dcterms.accessRightsopen access
dcterms.creatorCermeño, Helena
dcterms.creatorMielke, Katja
dcterms.extent83-98
dcterms.source.identifiereissn:2183-7635
dcterms.source.issueIssue 1
dcterms.source.journalUrban Planningeng
dcterms.source.volumeVolume 8
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