Borders of Belonging: Experiencing History, War and Nation at a Danish Heritage Site
In: Museums and Collections 5
In: EBL-Schweitzer
In an era cross-cut with various agendas and expressions of national belonging and global awareness, ""the nation"" as a collective reference point and experienced entity stands at the center of complex identity struggles. This book explores how such struggles unfold in practice at a highly symbolic battlefield site in the Danish/German borderland. Comprised of an ethnography of two profoundly different institutions - a conventional museum and an experience-based heritage center - it analyses the ways in which staff and visitors interfere with, relate to, and literally ""make sense"" of the w