Heritage places are dynamic environments evolving through the interaction of human, non-human, and natural forces, constantly negotiated through socio-political dynamics. This complexity intensifies in multicultural contexts, where a complex web of actors shapes conservation interventions. Antakya (Antioch), with its profound history, exemplifies this intricate setting. Moreover, the February 2023 earthquakes acted as a radical rupture, fundamentally altering people-place relationships and reconfiguring heritage governance networks. This paper explores the structural shift in Antakya’s heritage networks triggered by the disaster. Drawing on qualitative research, including fieldwork and interviews with diverse stakeholders, the study examines emerging post-disaster governance mechanisms. It focuses on the entry of new actors, the displacement of existing networks, and resource mobilization under extreme conditions. Ultimately, it seeks to understand the evolving relational dynamics that define conservation interventions in a post-disaster context.

This paper considers how Aotearoa New Zealand’s GLAM sector has connected with communities during past emergency responses to help protect heritage. It presents some initial findings from research into these events, how this practice within the GLAM sector has evolved through time, and what might this mean for the future of heritage management practice. This work is part of a wider doctoral study which aims to contribute to the growing body of study looking at heritage, natural hazards, disaster risk reduction and community resilience.

Reflecting on ethnographic research conducted in the aftermath of the 2023 earthquakes, this paper explores air as a relational force that binds bodies, memories, places, and temporalities. In approaching heritage atmosphere theory through olfaction, it examines how Antiochians articulate the loss of the affective, emotional, temporal, and sensory dimensions of their city through the notion of hava. In Turkish—not in an ethnic sense, but rather in a linguistic one—hava can be loosely translated as "atmosphere," but linguistically, it explains more than that. Hava (from Arabic, hevā) can mean air, but simultaneously, it denotes weather, breeze, as well as the emotional and affective quality of a place.

Through semi-structured interviews, smellscape mapping, and an adapted smellwalk methodology, the paper traces how altered air quality and disrupted olfactory environments generate experiences of breathlessness, sensory absence, and temporal displacement.

The escalating climate crisis requires transdisciplinary Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) pathways to safeguard people and cultural heritage. Historically, DRR in Aotearoa has relied on Western dominated processes, hierarchical command structures, and engineering-heavy solutions. However, building genuine resilience requires moving beyond these frameworks to integrate local and Indigenous knowledge, effectively reducing vulnerabilities and protecting environmental and cultural assets. Despite growing research into cultural landscapes in varying disciplines, and considerable research in DRR into resilience building, there is little research into the link between protection of cultural landscapes and increased community and environmental resilience to climate hazards. This paper seeks to address this gap by focusing on Aotearoa to investigate how cultural landscapes are protected within DRR frameworks, how application of a cultural landscape lens may lower the risk of climate related hazards on communities and the natural environment, and how this may build resilience as communities adapt to a changing climate.