Navigating an unwanted heritage: displacement, accommodation and effacement in Lublin’s local heritage initiatives

Kubiszyn, Marta

doi:10.1080/13527258.2021.1954056

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“…Cultural and (commodified) ethnic-linguistic diversity have become valuable elements of place advantage, economic resources for tourism and place marketing (Hall and Rath 2007). Hypothetically, multiethnic cities in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) would be beneficiaries of these new developments, but in practice, CEE cities typically face the challenge of the interrelatedness of the (re)evaluation of the past and the (re)invention of various layers of history and multiple identities (Murzyn 2008;Narvselius 2015;Kubiszyn 2021), which generally evoke contestation.…”

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Toponymic politics and the role of heritagisation in multiethnic cities in Romania

Erőss

Holányi

Tátrai

2022

International Journal of Heritage Studies

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Toponymic Politics and the Role of Heritagisation in Multiethnic Cities in RomaniaAlthough scholars have made considerable progress in understanding the dynamics of heritagisation and toponymic politics, research is yet to explore how these may interact with each other. Drawing on a mixed-methods comparative qualitative study, this paper explores the politics of place naming and multilingualism in the context of heritagisation in three multiethnic cities in Romania: Târgu Mureş, Oradea and Baia Mare. We argue that the recent trends of heritagisation introduce a new element in the politics of place naming in ethnically diverse cities. Heritage becomes inclusive when it loses its importance in the power struggle between minority and majority political representatives.Once the demographic weight of the minority decreases and the appearance of minority language in public space does not anymore pose a threat to the hegemony of the majority, heritagisation initiatives -including the display of multilingual signs -may develop. In cities where ethnic proportions remain balanced, however, ethnic rivalry continues to prevail as the dominant element of toponymic politics. Nonetheless, while the simultaneous heritagisation and political commodification of historical toponyms offers better visibility for autochthonous minority communities, they equally risk eroding minority language rights under an ambiguous regime of political and economic calculation.

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