Chapter 10 Between appropriation and appropriateness: Instrumentalizing dark heritage in populism and memory?

Abstract

This chapter takes an interdisciplinary approach to the subject of memorialization
and commemoration, protest and populism in relation to the performative
enacting and official presentation of difficult history. It analyzes the various
actors instrumentalizing the same dark heritage in different ways, by different
means, and for different purposes, to draw conclusions about processes
of coming to terms with the past ( Vergangenheitsbewältigung ) in relation to the
contemporary context of populism and migration.