New title from CEU Press

Remaking Urban Heritage: Refugee Walking Tours in Berlin, Jaffa, and Tel Aviv by Michal Huss is now available. The book is part of our of our Global Heritage and Memory Studies in the Present series. You can purchase a copy here.

This book follows the perspectives of refugee activists to examine cities shaped by layered histories of war, colonialism, and partition. Challenging the crisis-driven, state-centric frameworks that dominate migration and border studies – where refugees are often cast as passive victims or threats – the book foregrounds their agency in reimagining urban heritage. Moving beyond the edge of the state to the heritage sites of the urban sphere, Remaking Urban Heritage explores refugee-led walking tours in Berlin, Jaffa, and Tel Aviv, tracing the entangled geographies of the Middle East, Africa, and Europe. Through a participatory ‘walk-along’ ethnography grounded in artistic practice, the book reconceptualizes heritage-making as a dynamic, contested, and transcultural process. By centring refugee storytelling, performance, and spatial knowledge, it offers a critical intervention into memory, urban, and migration studies – urging scholars and practitioners to rethink the politics of belonging amid ongoing displacement and to attend to the fluidity of urban heritage.

Michal Huss is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow and Lecturer in Architectural Studies at the University of Manchester. Her research explores everyday life, memory, and resistance in post/colonial and divided cities, focusing on spatial justice.