(Re)calibrating heritage: Al-Jdeideh (post-)conflict transformations in Aleppo, Syria

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/14696053231220926" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1177/14696053231220926</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14696053231220926" target="_blank" >10.1177/14696053231220926</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

(Re)calibrating heritage: Al-Jdeideh (post-)conflict transformations in Aleppo, Syria

Original language description

This paper examines how armed conflict impacts the recalibration of Aleppo’s historic urban and cultural fabric, using the Al-Jdeideh quarter as a case study. This article critically reflects on the ongoing (post-)conflict, top-down (post-)reconstruction activities in Aleppo’s historic core, drawing on ethnographic research of visual mapping and semi-structured interviews with current Aleppo dwellers in the city and former dwellers displaced across Europe. Our findings highlight that the current reconstruction activities lack locals’ values and needs, and amplify the altered socio-economic dynamics between the (former) communities’ absence and presence. Therefore, these activities are resulting in a skewed representation of what once was a major hub of culture, commerce, heritage, and everyday life. As such, the paper argues that the current reconstruction attempts lack a comprehensive and context-specific approach, and need to explore more inclusive pathways of human-centered and sustainable recovery.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60500 - Other Humanities and the Arts

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Social Archaeology

ISSN

1469-6053

e-ISSN

1741-2951

Volume of the periodical

24

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

27

Pages from-to

79-105

UT code for WoS article

001136363500001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85181502126