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“You cannot really live (or die) here” – Ongoing struggles over Muslim cemeteries in Tel Aviv-Jaffa, 1957–2020 (2024)
Journal Article
Huss, M., & Margalit, T. (2024). “You cannot really live (or die) here” – Ongoing struggles over Muslim cemeteries in Tel Aviv-Jaffa, 1957–2020. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, https://doi.org/10.1177/02637758241244595

The article examines the Muslim community’s struggle to maintain their cemeteries in Tel Aviv-Jaffa, and highlights a broader geo-temporal interpretation of the indigenous right-to-the-city. We analyse a succession of mobilizations against sales and... Read More about “You cannot really live (or die) here” – Ongoing struggles over Muslim cemeteries in Tel Aviv-Jaffa, 1957–2020.

Walking tours as transcultural memory activism: Referencing memories of trauma and migration to redefine urban belonging (2024)
Journal Article
Huss, M. (in press). Walking tours as transcultural memory activism: Referencing memories of trauma and migration to redefine urban belonging. Memory Studies, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980241247271

This article maps two grids of city walking tours, conceptualizing them as expressions of transcultural memory activism. The first are walking tours in Berlin, guided by Syrian refugees, which use memorials of local traumatic history to testify to th... Read More about Walking tours as transcultural memory activism: Referencing memories of trauma and migration to redefine urban belonging.

Jaffa's contested heritage trails: Using city walking tours to study, affirm, and protest the politics of space and memory (2023)
Journal Article
Huss, M. (2023). Jaffa's contested heritage trails: Using city walking tours to study, affirm, and protest the politics of space and memory. Political Geography, 107, 102998. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2023.102998

The article concerns the role of heritage sites and performances in fuelling as well as resisting colonial domination over space and memory in the city of Jaffa. Using this case study, it maps the ways urban planning, preservation practices, and a sp... Read More about Jaffa's contested heritage trails: Using city walking tours to study, affirm, and protest the politics of space and memory.