Gendered Encounters, Engendered Places - Democratising Heritage.
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DOES World Heritage status do cities more harm than good? Does the World Heritage tag take the life out of cities? These questions are regularly posed in articles and newspapers across the world. The specific ones mentioned here were published in The Guardian (Laignee Barron, 30 August 2017) in the context of the number of visitors coming to George-town, Malaysia every year. Venice, Barcelona and other cities in Europe have seen active protests by the inhabitants urging to reduce tourism. The main contention of the residents is that tourists claim their day-to-day spaces in a way that takes away their own accessibility. The historic city of Ahmedabad has become the first in being designated as a World Heritage City in India in July 2017. Among many other challenges of development and conservation, it faces the constant negotiation between the day-to-day and the extraordinary (or universal) values of the heritage of the city. The walled city of Ahmedabad has seen a surge in heritage projects' that would provide an authentic experience to visitors and have focussed on the innermost, smallest neighbourhood units as expressions of universal value of the city. Formally, the intention of these projects is to build a respectful relationship to the place and foster cultural exchange. This article argues that these projects and many other such initiatives, despite the best of intentions, have infringed upon the only public places that have social potential of bringing place attachment for women residing in that part of the city and thereby started a downward spiral of diminishing the day-to-day values and associations.
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