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Id : 2190

Author :
Cermeño H.; Mielke K.

Title


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

Reference :


Cermeño H.; Mielke K. Endangered Urban Commons: Lahore’s Violent Heritage Management and Prospects for Reconciliation,Urban Planning 8 1

Link to article https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85147032971&doi=10.17645%2fup.v8i1.6054&partnerID=40&md5=86dd7cee17a1cf27fbff53ce51ac2e2d
Abstract The 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 pos-terity 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 manage-ment. 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. © 2023, Cogitatio Press. All rights reserved.



Results:


                    Category                    

             Certainity            
Heritage 0.9942
Archives 0.0000
Libraries 0.0000
Book and Press 0.0000
Visual Arts 0.0045
Performing Arts 0.0000
Audiovisual and Multimedia 0.0000
Architecture 0.0002
Adverstizing 0.0000
Art crafts 0.0001
General cultural dimension 0.0010
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