A European Cultural Heritage? Reflections on a Concept and a Programme

Bugge, Peter

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“…In spite or perhaps because of the passive approach to site selection in the EHMF, leaving it to experts and national representatives to assemble a European heritage, a cultural historical canon was linked to the new politico-economic project. This strategy imitated the logics of western nation-states (Bugge, 2003: 71; Delanty, 1995; Shore, 2000), especially in its aim to craft what Weiss has called ‘a troubling “thickening” of citizenship’ (2007: 415). By applying a type of methodological continentalism rather than nationalism (Wimmer and Glick Schiller, 2002), a meaningful difference was created between that European and that non-European.…”

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The Janus-face of European heritage: Revisiting the rhetoric of Europe-making in EU cultural politics

Niklasson

2017

Journal of Social Archaeology

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Heritage sites and their stewards have been part of the project of European integration since the 1970s. Countless actions involving conservation, research and public outreach has been granted EU funding based on the ‘European significance’ of monuments and sites or the ‘European added value’ of project activities. This article argues that out of the long relationship between EU cultural politics and the domain of tangible heritage, there has grown a parallel approach to European belonging. By tracing acts of Europe-making in political statements used to justify financial support, and discussing their effect on co-funded archaeological projects, a Janus-face is identified. One side places authority in the past, articulating a European commonality through site characteristics or time periods. The other places authority in the present, promoting a more flexible understanding of heritage. Since the EU has increasingly (and unwillingly) come to share the rhetorical figure of ‘European heritage’ with anti-immigration groups calling for solidarity among ‘native Europeans’, the question of which side takes precedence is of great consequence.

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The Janus-face of European heritage: Revisiting the rhetoric of Europe-making in EU cultural politics

Niklasson

2017

Journal of Social Archaeology

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Conflicts and Reconciliation in the Postmillennial Heritage-Policy Discourses of the Council of Europe and the European Union

Lähdesmäki

2019

Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict

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Europe is currently facing challenges that affect the contestation of the meaning of heritage. These challenges for example include: different forms of extremism in Europe, such as radical right and Islamist movements; Eurosceptic attitudes combined with new nationalist agendas; ethnic and religious confrontations; exclusion of minority, immigrant, and refugee groups; and various groups' sense that they do not belong to European societies. These challenges manifest in national, regional, and local discourses on heritage, and in their complex and dissonant relationship to the past, as the chapters by Rob van Laarse and Iris van Huis

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Establishing cooperation between Israel and Poland to save Auschwitz Concentration Camp: globalising the responsibility for the Massacre

Poria

2007

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A European Cultural Heritage? Reflections on a Concept and a Programme

Cited by 3 publications

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The Janus-face of European heritage: Revisiting the rhetoric of Europe-making in EU cultural politics

The Janus-face of European heritage: Revisiting the rhetoric of Europe-making in EU cultural politics

Conflicts and Reconciliation in the Postmillennial Heritage-Policy Discourses of the Council of Europe and the European Union

Establishing cooperation between Israel and Poland to save Auschwitz Concentration Camp: globalising the responsibility for the Massacre

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