Ahmad Omar Hamad

Preserving Cultural Heritage as a Condition of Development: Economic Claims, Living Practices, Justice and Resilience in Critical Perspective

Ahmad Omar Hamad & Mujtaba Arify · Asian Research Journal of Arts & Social Sciences · 2026

Cultural heritage is increasingly treated as an instrument of sustainable development, yet the proposition that preservation generates development obscures variation in what is preserved, who has authority, which outcomes are measured and whose welfare changes. This critical narr...