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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.
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Heritage, Conflict, War and
Peace(building)
Feras Hammami
Cultural Heritage Day, Center for Critical Heritage Studies, and Kulturarvsakademin (KAS), GU. - 2023 -
Heritage, Gentrification and Resistance in the Neoliberal
City
Feras Hammami, Daniel Jewesbury, Chiara Valli
2022 -
Heritage and Resistance: Theoretical
Insights
Feras Hammami, Evren Uzer
Theorizing Heritage through Non-Violent Resistance - 2022 -
Fighting Denial of the Right to the Past: Heritage-Backed Bodily Resistance and Performance of Refugeeism and
Return
Feras Hammami
Theorizing Heritage through Non-Violent Resistance - 2022 -
The Epistemic Work of Decolonization and Restitution: A Critical
Conversation
Ciraj Rassool, Evren Uzer, Feras Hammami
Theorizing Heritage through Non-Violent Resistance - 2022 -
Rupture in heritage: strategies of dispossession, elimination and
co-resistance
Feras Hammami
Settler Colonial Studies - 2022 -
Linking Heritage to
Resistance
Feras Hammami, Evren Uzer
Theorizing Heritage through Non-Violent Resistance - 2022 -
Heritage and peacebuilding: Challenges, possibilities and sustainable
practices
Feras Hammami, D. C. Harvey, D. Laven, D. Walters
Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Heritage - 2022 -
'Cleaning up' heritage in the post-industrial city: Making heritage, gentrification and legitimacy in
Gamlestaden
Feras Hammami, C. Valli
Heritage, Gentrification and Resistance in the Neoliberal City - 2022 -
Introduction: Exploring injustices through heritage in the neoliberal
city
Feras Hammami, Daniel Jewesbury, C. Valli
Heritage, Gentrification and Resistance in the Neoliberal City - 2022 -
Methodological Insights Within the Intersection of Heritage and Resistance
Research
Feras Hammami
Theorizing Heritage through Non-Violent Resistance - 2022 -
Theorizing Heritage through Non-Violent
Resistance
Feras Hammami, Evren Uzer
2022 -
Epilogue: Reflections on Heritage, Gentrification,
Resistance
Daniel Jewesbury, Feras Hammami, Chiara Valli
Heritage, Gentrification and Resistance in the Neoliberal City - 2022 -
The Scopic Feast of Heritage and the Invention of Unthreatening Diversity in Neoliberal
Cities
Feras Hammami
Heritage - 2021 -
Introducing Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) in Sweden: A social justice
appraisal
C. Valli, Feras Hammami
European Urban and Regional Studies - 2021 -
Planning theories from ‘southern turn’ to ‘deeply rooted/situated in the South/context’: A project in the
making
Feras Hammami, Chandrima Mukhopadhyay, Vanessa Watson
plaNext–Next Generation Planning - 2021 -
Reviewing Neighborhood Sustainability Assessment Tools through Critical Heritage
Studies
Luciane Aguiar Borges, Feras Hammami, Josefin Wangel
Sustainability - 2020 -
Heritage for emancipation: a new call for the abolition of the settler colonial logic of
elimination
Feras Hammami
Cultural Stability or Conflict Symposium, Melbourne 31 January 2019 - 2019 -
The earth always wins: a new language of heritage-led abolition of
injustices
Feras Hammami
Symposium "Heritage and Conflict in the MENA Region. Cases from Aleppo, Beirut, Tunis, Hebron, and Acre". 28 October 2019, Cottbus, Germany - 2019 -
Heritage necropolitics and the capture of Hebron: The logic of closure, fear, humiliation and
elimination
Feras Hammami
Urban Heritage in Divided Cities: Contested Pasts. Mirjana Ristic, Sybille Frank (red.) - 2019 -
Rethinking urban justice from the authorized past: stories from the multicultural margin and
center
Feras Hammami, Chiara Valli
The Association of European Schools of Planning Annual Congress, Making Space for Hope - 2018 -
Precarious Return: the case of decolonising Nakba in
Palestine
Feras Hammami
Association of Critical Heritage Studies - 2018 -
Marginalisation and emerging spaces of hope between neoliberal urbanism and ‘inclusive heritage’ in
Gothenburg
Chiara Valli, Feras Hammami
The Association of European Schools of Planning Annual Congress, Making Space for Hope - 2018 -
The Great March of Return facing the Israeli settler colonial
control
Wassim Ghantous, Feras Hammami, Helena Lindholm Schulz
School of Blogal Studies: Making sense of the world. - 2018 -
Reconciliatory Heritage: Reconstructing Heritage in a Time of Violent
Fragmentations
Feras Hammami, David C Harvey
Association of Critical Heritage Studies - 2018 -
Crossing Borders with Hopeful Heritage: Quiet Encroachment towards Safe
Spaces
Feras Hammami, David C. Harvey
Association of Critical Heritage Studies - 2018 -
Heritage and resistance: irregularities, temporalities and cumulative
impact
Feras Hammami, Evren Uzer
International Journal of Heritage Studies - 2018 -
New Urban Imaginaries through heritage and
resistance
Feras Hammami
RC21 CONFERENCE 2017 “Rethinking Urban Global Justice”, September 11-13, Leeds, UK - 2017 -
Heritage and Urban Resistance: Exploring Identity Politics, Commons and
Conflict
Feras Hammami, Evren Uzer
2017 -
Rethinking heritage from peace: reflections from the Palestinian-Israeli
context
Feras Hammami, Daniel Laven
Heritage and Peacebuilding. Eds.: Diana Walters, Daniel Laven & Peter Davis - 2017 -
Reclaiming shared authority through heritage and
resistance
Feras Hammami, Evren Uzer
Creating the city: Identity, memory and participation - 2017 -
Issues of mutuality and sharing in the transnational spaces of heritage – contesting diaspora and homeland experiences in
Palestine
Feras Hammami
International Journal of Heritage Studies - 2016 -
The Politics of Spatialising Shared Pasts in (post-) colonial and diaspora
times
Feras Hammami
IV World Planning Schools Congress. July 3-8th 2016, Rio de Janeiro, Brasilien. - 2016 -
Differences and connections: beyond universal theories in planning, urban, and heritage
studies
Nadia Caruso, Feras Hammami, Ender Peker, Simone Tulumello, Lauren Ugur
Urban Research and Practice - 2016 -
Heritage Inside Out: Uses of the Past to Reclaim the
City
Feras Hammami, Evren Uzer
World Planning Schools Congress - 2016 -
plaNext: New Ideas and Perspectives on
Planning
Feras Hammami
plaNext-New Generation Planning - 2016 -
Heritage as Common(s) - Common(s) as
Heritage
Henric Benesch, Feras Hammami, Ingrid Martins Holmberg, Evren Uzer
2015 -
Keeping things in
common
Henric Benesch, Feras Hammami, Ingrid Martins Holmberg, Evren Uzer
Heritage as Common(s) - Common(s) as Heritage - 2015 -
Conservation, innovation and healing of the well-preserved medieval
Ystad
Feras Hammami
Urban Research and Practice - 2015 -
Geographies of Heritage and Heritage
Activism
Feras Hammami
7th International Conference of Critical Geography (ICCG) Precarious Radicalism on Shifting Grounds: Towards a Politics of Possibility. 26-30 July 2015, Ramallah, Palestine - 2015 -
New commons and new heritage: negotiating presence and
security
Feras Hammami
Heritage as Commons - Commons as Heritage. Henric Benesch, Feras Hammami, Ingrid Martins Holmberg, Evren Uzer (red.) - 2015 -
On the Entangled Paths of Urban Resistance, City Planning and Heritage
Conservation
Jeffrey Hou, Feras Hammami
plaNext - 2015 -
Politics of Emotion in Heritage
Works
Feras Hammami
Heritage and Healthy Societies: Exploring the Links among Cultural Heritage, Environment, and Resilience. University of Massachusetts Amherst, May 14-16, 2014 - 2014 -
Heritage and Peace-Building? Reflections from Nablus, Nazareth, and the Israeli-Palestinian
Conflict
Feras Hammami, Daniel Laven
2nd International Conference of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies. Canberra, Australia, 2-4th December 2014 - 2014 -
Cities that talk: urban resistance as challenges for urban
planning
Nadia Caruso, Feras Hammami, Ender Peker, Simone Tulumello, Lauren Ugur
Urban Research and Practice - 2014 -
Understanding the cultural heritage landscapes in rural Palestine: Exploring local conceptions in the village of Dair
Ghassaneh
Feras Hammami, Christine Alloush
26th session of the Permanent European Conference for the Study of the Rural Landscape UNRAVELING THE LOGICS OF LANDSCAPE - 2014 -
Urban Resistance: New Heritage and Commons in Conflict
Situations.
Feras Hammami, Evren Uzer
2nd International Conference of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies - 2014 -
Calls for Academic Freedom: Reflections on Palestine and
Israel
Feras Hammami
Global Dialogue - International Sociological Association - 2013 -
Transnational Spaces of Heritage Politics - the Case of
Nablus
Feras Hammami
Peace Conference: Post Conflict, Cultural Heritage and Regional Development - 2013 -
Conservation Under Occupation: Conflictual Powers and Cultural Heritage
Meanings
Feras Hammami
Planning Theory & Practice - 2012 -
Culture and Planning for Change and Continuity in
Botswana
Feras Hammami
Journal of planning education and research - 2012 -
Heritage in Authority-Making: Appropriating Interventions inThree Socio-Political
Contexts
Feras Hammami
2012 -
Legitimation of interventions in historic city areas: the case of the well–preserved
Ystad
Feras Hammami
Communication and Planning conference organized by the Young Academics of the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) - 2012 -
Conservation under Occupation in the Historic City of
Nablus
Feras Hammami
24th AESOP Annual Congress in Helsinki - 2010 -
Culture in Botswana Planning
System
Feras Hammami
IV Nordic Planning Research Symposium, Tromsø , Norway, August 13–15 - 2009