HERITAGE AS PLACEMAKING
The Politics of Solidarity and Erasure in South Asia
Heritage as Placemaking: The Politics of Solidarity and Erasure in South Asia (HaP) is a four-year research project that investigates the role of placemaking in shaping, narrating, contesting, and erasing cultural heritage in South Asia.
HaP is composed of an interdisciplinary, international research team based across Europe and South Asia whose collaborative work is broadly located at the intersections of the fields of critical heritage studies, new area studies, and transcultural urbanization studies. The project’s research agenda is unified by a commitment to four central theoretical strands: decolonization, erasure, bureaucracy, and commoning.
The danger to the world’s heritage is not primarily war, terrorism, environmental change, tourism, or digitalization. Instead, it is the loss of interest or the inability to form and sustain solidarity across differences. Heritage requires, at the best of times, cyclical renewal as an investment in the future.
Collaborators
Heritage as Placemaking is a transdisciplinary project that is based at the following institutions:
HaP is funded by the Riksbankens Jubilieumsfond
The project runs from October 2021–September 2025
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NEW PODCAST EPISODE:
In this episode of the HaP Erasure Series, Dr. Mallika Shakya (South Asian University, Department of Sociology) discusses her work on the Ralpha dissident poetry collective and their ongoing impact on cultures of remembering and forgetting in Nepal.
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UPCOMING LECTURE IN THE ‘COMMONING SERIES’: Queer heritage-making as a counterhegemonic strategy in Nepal
Monday, December 9 at 11:00 - 12:30 CET
Speaker: Dr. Marion Wettstein
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Upcoming: HaP Winter School 2024
Heritage as Placemaking 2024 international winter school titled ‘Pilgrimage as Placemaking’ will be held between December 4 - 10, 2024 in Janakpurdham, Nepal.
