‘Building a new world in the shell of the old’. Historic building squats and heritage commons. The case of Rosa Nera at Chania, Crete

Lekakis, S

doi:10.4324/9781003300984-42

‘Building a new world in the shell of the old’. Historic building squats and heritage commons. The case of Rosa Nera at Chania, Crete

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Stelios Lekakis ORCiD

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Abstract

This paper extends the argument of heritage as commons looking into the case of a squatted historic building in the touristic centre of the old city of Chania and the community organised around to protect it and use it in unauthorised ways. The paper challenges the tourist-ready destination of heritage as a by-product of the national enclosure of the past, examining the plural affordances of the “squatted monument” in the realm of the commons and its social repercussions in the contemporary local and national context.