The Mediterranean and its uneasy heritage associations

ABSTRACT

Drawing on the articles in this issue and those published in the 2016 special section “Critical ethnographies of urban heritage in the western Mediterranean region”, this afterword critically reflects on the significance of the Mediterranean region as a particular dimension for heritage research.

KEYWORDS:

• Heritage making
• heritage associations
• Mediterranean
• comparative urbanism

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author

Notes

1. The statement is made in the second paragraph of the constitution’s preamble. An official French version of 2011 Constitution of Morocco can be accessed here: http://www.maroc.ma/en/content/constitution. For an English translation, see: https://www.constituteproject.org/constitution/Morocco_2011?lang=en

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Nick Dines

Nick Dines is a researcher in the Department of Sociology and Social Research at the University of Milan Bicocca and a visiting fellow at the European University Institute, Florence. His research cuts across the fields of urban studies, critical heritage studies and migration studies. He is the author of the monograph Tuff City: Urban Change and Contested Space in Central Naples (2012).