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Feras Hammami

Deputy Head of Department

Department of Conservation
Mail
feras.hammami@conservation.gu.se
Visiting address
Medicinaregatan 7 B
413 90 Göteborg
Room number
3252
Postal address
Box 130
405 30 Göteborg

Senior Lecturer

Department of Conservation
Telephone
+46 31-786 57 00
Mail
feras.hammami@conservation.gu.se
Visiting address
Medicinaregatan 7 B
413 90 Göteborg
Room number
3252
Postal address
Box 130
405 30 Göteborg

About Feras Hammami

I am currently serving as the Deputy Head of, and Associate Professor at, the Department of Conservation, GU.

My academic journey began in Palestine, where I earned a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture and experienced firsthand the impacts of Israeli settler colonialism. These experiences shaped my understanding of cultural heritage and its profound influence on daily life. I further developed these concepts during my PhD studies in Planning and Decision Analysis at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden. My PhD thesis, titled “Heritage in Authority-Making,” explored the transnational dynamics of heritage management across Palestine, Botswana, and Sweden, identifying key aspects of the politicization of cultural heritage in urban policies and its impact on societal development.

Between 2013 and 2014, I undertook a postdoctoral research fellowship in Critical Heritage Studies at GU, where I investigated notions of resistance in neoliberal and colonized cities. Since then, my research has focused on the intricate nexus of cultural heritage, conflict, and peace. I have examined cases in, among others, Palestine, Sweden, and Botswana, highlighting how cultural heritage is politicized within neoliberal urban governance and colonial practices. My work underscores the entanglement of cultural heritage with urban resistance, addressing critical issues of security, border, identity, memory, and sense of place.

Currently, my research challenges Western-centric notions of peace, reconciliation, representation, and security, and search for new possibilities for socially just futures through innovative perspectives on cultural heritage.