Critical heritage studies and the futures of Europe / edited by Rodney Harrison, Nélia Dias and Kristian Kristiansen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Harrison, Rodney, 1974- editor.

Dias, Nélia, editor.

Kristiansen, Kristian, 1948- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cultural property.

Cultural property--Europe.

National characteristics, European.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 363 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour)

Place of Publication:

London : UCL Press, 2023

Summary:

"Cultural and natural heritage are central to 'Europe' and 'the European project'. They were bound up in the emergence of nation-states in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, where they were used to justify differences over which border conflicts were fought. Later, the idea of a 'common European heritage' provided a rationale for the development of the European Union. Now, the emergence of 'new' populist nationalisms shows how the imagined past continues to play a role in cultural and social governance, while a series of interlinked social and ecological crises are changing the ways that heritage operates. New discourses and ontologies are emerging to reconfigure heritage for the circumstances of the present and the uncertainties of the future.Taking the current role of heritage in Europe as its starting point, Critical Heritage Studiesand the Futures of Europe presents a number of case studies that explore key themes in this transformation. Contributors draw on a range of disciplinary perspectives to consider, variously, the role of heritage and museums in the migration and climate 'emergencies'; approaches to urban heritage conservation and practices of curating cities; digital and digitised heritage; the use of heritage as a therapeutic resource; and critical approaches to heritage and its management. Taken together, the chapters explore the multiple ontologies through which cultural and natural heritage have actively intervened in redrawing the futures of Europe and the world..."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part I, Heritage and global challenges. 1. Rethinking museums for the climate emergency ; 2. From climate victim to climate action: heritage as agent in climate change mitigation discourse ; 3. Syrian refugees' food in Lisbon: a heritage of food beyond national borders ; 4. Relations with objects: a longitudinal case study

Part II, Curating the city: rethinking urban heritages. 5. Erosion and preservation of the cultural and geological heritage in mega city landscapes of the Global South: A geo-aesthetic inquiry ; 6. Recognising urban heritage written in water: Mapping fluctuating articulations in time and space ; 7. Participatory design in the context of heritage-development: Engaging with the past in the design space of historical landscapes ; 8. The (over)touristification of European historic cities: a relation between urban heritage and short-term rental market demand ; 9. Overtourism vs pandemic: the fragility of our historic cities

Part III, Digital heritages and digital futures.10. Datafied landscapes: Exploring digital maps as (critical) heritage ; 11. #Womenof1916 and the heritage of the Easter Rising on Twitter ; 12. The material and immaterial historic environment ; 13. Digitality as a cultural policy instrument: Europeana and the Europeanisation of digital heritage ; 14. De-neutralising digital heritage infrastructures? Critical considerations on digital engagements with the past in the context of Europe

Part IV, Postcolonial legacies: ‘European’ heritages beyond Europe. 15. Heritage pharmacology and ‘moving heritage’: Making refugees, asylum seekers and Palestine part of the European conscience ; 16. How to tell the good guys from the bad guys…or not ; 17. Traumatic heritage, politics of visibility and the standardisation of plaques and memorials in the city of São Paulo, Brazil ; 18 Lampedusa here and there: activating memories of migration in Amsterdam’s historic centre – a resource for whom?.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-80008-396-3

9781800083967 (electronic book)