Louisville’s (Other) Heritages
“Louisville’s (Other) Heritages” is a digital story map, created in 2025 by eleven doctoral students at the University of Louisville’s Department of Urban and Public Affairs (under the direction of Lisa Björkman). The project is motivated by the idea that our collective futures are bound up with how we understand and represent our heritage; the story map amplifies voices and perspectives of Louisvillians with more-recent migration backgrounds, foregrounding the role – both historical and contemporary – that migration has played in Louisville’s development and transformation. Challenging the narrow, identity-based notions that inform popular discourses about migration in our cities and society, Louisville’s (other) Heritages aims to open up new conversations and ways of imagining (and creating) our shared urban future.
UCL North-West Wing Building136 Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BP
Lisa Björkman is a political ethnographer and urban anthropologist. An Associate Professor at the University of Louisville, she is currently based at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany. Lisa is author of Drama of Democracy: Political Representation in Mumbai (University of Minnesota Press, 2025), Pipe Politics, Contested Waters: Embedded Infrastructures of Millennial Mumbai (Duke University Press 2015); Waiting Town: Life in Transit and Mumbai’s Other World-Class Histories (Columbia University Press, 2020) and Bombay Brokers (Duke University Press, 2021). Lisa’s new ethnographic collaboration, Napoli Navigators is forthcoming with Berghahn Books.
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