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Author(s): | Lazzaretti, V. |
Date: | 2024 |
Title: | Security and heritage in the making of urban futures: A new research avenue |
Journal title: | Ethnography |
Volume: | N/A |
Reference: | Lazzaretti, V. (2024). Security and heritage in the making of urban futures: A new research avenue. Ethnography. http://doi.org/10.1177/14661381241266918 |
ISSN: | 1466-1381 |
DOI (Digital Object Identifier): | 10.1177/14661381241266918 |
Keywords: | Security Heritage Urban future South Asia Hindu nationalism Urban everyday life Urban heritage Policing Inter-religious space |
Abstract: | Heritage and security are distinct research topics in anthropology, but some of their connections have been unpacked, particularly in scholarship about heritage during conflicts and peace building. This article, however, brings them analytically together to understand how they entangle to shape cities and their futures. In scrutinising overlooked similarities between heritage and security, my longitudinal ethnography in Banaras (Varanasi) suggests that both intersect productively in anticipating and making urban futures. I argue that a Hindu majoritarian urban future—as materialised in the walls, signboards and checkpoints of the Prime Minister’s flagship Kashi Vishvanath Dham and Corridor—unfolded precisely through security and heritage. This future seems to be, at least partially, shared by those who are excluded from it. Bridging the largely disconnected anthropological scholarship on heritage and security, this article offers a first ethnographically-grounded theorisation of security and heritage as cross-fertilising urban processes that make futures. |
Peerreviewed: | yes |
Access type: | Open Access |
Appears in Collections: | CRIA-RI - Artigos em revistas científicas internacionais com arbitragem científica |
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