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Yelyzaveta Nesterova
More Than a Monument: Routine Uses of Urban Archaeological Heritage. Case Study of Lycian Tombs at Kaş (Antalya, Turkey)
Supervisors: Dr Chris Whitehead, Dr Bruce Davenport, Dr Sam Turner
I love observing what is going on around me and questioning how I attend to these observations. I have been always wondering how certain places are more important to people than others with the reasons being not so clear from the first sight.
In my early childhood I have been fond of all things archaeology and I have rediscovered this passion through the heritage studies during my bachelors.
These two have shaped my interest for exploring how and why people interact with archaeological heritage.
My project cuts across number of disciplines – heritage studies, anthropology, archaeology, cultural geography, tourism studies - and adopts new materialism-informed theories and approaches for studying variety of routine, everyday interactions with archaeological heritage.
My case study focuses on funerary monuments located in Kaş, a seaside town in the Southern Türkiye, Antalya province. I experiment with non-representational methods and consider how they challenge and allow expanding current rhetoric of critical heritage studies on individual and everyday values and uses of heritage beyond the existing limitations.
My interests revolve around social values and uses of heritage, affect and emotion, post-qualitative and non-representational approaches, critical heritage studies and new materialism theory.
I am an active member of the ECRN Coordinating Team at the Association of Critical Heritage Studies. I have contributed to organization of the annual ECRN symposia - Heritage Justice - in 2023 and 2025. I take on a role as one of the guest editors for our members who work on publishing their symposium proceedings in the International Journal of Heritage Studies.
I am also one of the founders of our ECRSpeak, a digital blog that aims to spotlight voices of early career researchers.
Presentation: 'Narration resting on non-representational scholarship’
Presented at the event dedicated to Storytelling, organized by AHRC Northern Bridge Summer School at Durham, June 2025
