Current issue
34.2 (2025)
This Fabrications special issue focuses on architectural heritage in conflict to interrogate cases in actively violent or post-conflict territories as well as cases where heritage is situated “in conflict” by the very interconnectedness of our globalised world, modes of mass migration, religious fundamentalisms, symptoms of imperialism, and other forms of injustice that transgress national geographic boundaries or ethnic identities. It seeks to unpack the ways heritage becomes instrumentalised in political, ethnic, religious, and cultural struggles. This special issue asks: If architectural heritage is always in conflict, then how do we contemplate the possibilities of sharedness? To answer this question, it is imperative to recognise that the quest for sharedness has produced different meanings and manifestations of sharing, understood at different scales and geographies.