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.