Suchergebnisse

How many pasts? -- Plural heritages -- Yetvart -- Walking, talking, remembering -- Co-production through design -- Selin, Abdullah, Hatice, Yakup, Riza, Seçmen, Soner -- The challenges of plural heritages and co-production -- Minor heritages -- Afterword 1 / Hatice Demirbiçer -- Afterword 2 / Yetvart Tomasyan.

As noted by Pierre Nora (1989, p. 17), 'no-one
knows what the past will be
made of next'. While this is indeed so, it is also the case that the past will surely
be 'made' somehow. In this chapter, we take a look at those makings and the
ubiquitous desire to recreate what once was that arguably undergirds almost any
heritage practice.

Dimensions of Heritage and Memory is a landmark contribution on the politics of the past in Europe today. The book explores the meanings of heritage in a time of crisis, when the past permeates social and political divisions, identity contests and official projects to forge a European community. Chapters 1,3,4,9 and 10 of this book are available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www.routledge.com. They have been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Forms of reconciliation, connection and mobilisation -- Politics from below : community, local and oppositional activism -- Populist and authoritarian politics -- Reconfiguring and unsettling heritage symbols -- Heritage and the negotiation of place -- The politics of urban transformation -- Heritage Policy, UNESCO and resistance.

Dimensions of Heritage and Memory is a landmark contribution on the politics of the past in Europe today. The book explores the meanings of heritage in a time of crisis, when the past permeates social and political divisions, identity contests and official projects to forge a European community.

Providing an overview of the literature and an analysis of the assumptions, values and philosophies embedded within European-level policy, the book explores different dimensions of heritage and memory, from official sites, museums and policy, to party politics, historical re-enactments and the everyday ways in which people use the past to make sense of who they are. The volume explores how different understandings of and attachments to the European past produce different 'Europes' in the present, accounting for today's tense social and political relations. The book also explores formative histories for European identities that are neglected or hidden because of political circumstances and non-official heritage. Contributors consider the meanings of interlocking crises, such as economic fallout, xenophobia and the fragmentation of the EU, for new understandings of Europe's past in the present.

Dimensions of Heritage and Memory will be of great interest to researchers, academics and postgraduate students in the fields of heritage and memory studies, museum studies, history, cultural studies, sociology, anthropology and politics. The book will also be interesting to practitioners and cultural heritage policy-makers.

This book is a reflection on the politics of heritage in Europe at the present time,
in a moment of pluralised conceptions of the political, social and demographic
organisation proper to Europe. It is not a book that seeks to survey, define or
characterise an enduring 'European heritage' as an entity, but rather to explore
what heritage does – how it is understood, instrumentalised and what it enables
– within what we will argue is a 'critical' moment for both identities and geopolitics
in Europe.

This final chapter
takes up these questions, mining some of our ethnographies for support. One of
these is the basis for a short diversion to a Turkish coffeehouse in what used to
be the edge of West Berlin. This is a marginal story that turns out to be central,
allowing us to suggest that among the multiple Europes circulating and bickering in the air around us, there are still some others yet to be brought into sight. After
this, we close the book with some practical comments about what, in this time of
perceived crisis, should be done to re-orient ideas of the European past at the level of heritage practice.

Dimensions of Heritage and Memory is a landmark contribution on the politics of the past in Europe today. The book explores the meanings of heritage in a time of crisis, when the past permeates social and political divisions, identity contests and official projects to forge a European community. Chapters 1,3,4,9 and 10 of this book are available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www.routledge.com. They have been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Dimensions of Heritage and Memory is a landmark contribution on the politics of the past in Europe today. The book explores the meanings of heritage in a time of crisis, when the past permeates social and political divisions, identity contests and official projects to forge a European community. Chapters 1,3,4,9 and 10 of this book are available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www.routledge.com. They have been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

This chapter is a set of accounts of the film Who is Europe? It is a conversation
between the filmmaker and the editors of this book, some of whom were directly
involved in the filmmaking too. It is a good idea to watch the film before reading
on. It is available at https://vimeo.com/303706985.

Dimensions of Heritage and Memory is a landmark contribution on the politics of the past in Europe today. The book explores the meanings of heritage in a time of crisis, when the past permeates social and political divisions, identity contests and official projects to forge a European community. Chapters 1,3,4,9 and 10 of this book are available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www.routledge.com. They have been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.