Feras Hammami

Feras Hammami, assistant professor of critical heritage studies and urban planning at the Department of Conservation, University of Gothenburg.

His research lies within heritage and conflict with a focus on the politicisation of cultural heritage and its entanglement in social conflicts and resistance in cities. In his current research projects, he investigates the impact of urban transformations and heritage management on everyday negotiations of security, identity, memory, sense of place and inclusion, and the new possibilities that heritage may offer for building socially equal and just cities in Sweden, Palestine, Turkey and Botswana.