The instruments of European heritage 1

Zito, AR; Eckersley, Susannah; Turner, Sam

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“…The studies examining how the EU has dealt with heritage and used it for creating narratives of Europe usually focus on policy documents, archived reports, and/ or interviews with EU policy officers or other transnational actors (e.g. Calligaro 2013;Lähdesmäki 2014Lähdesmäki , 2017Niklasson 2017;Jakubowski et al 2019;Mäkinen 2019;Lähdesmäki et al 2019b;Zito et al 2019). The social dimension of EU heritage policies and initiatives and their social implication at local and grass-roots levels remain an under-researched topic.…”

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Constructing social Europe through European cultural heritage

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The political and economic crises of the recent decades as well as the new changes brought on by globalization and digitalization have contributed to exacerbate social inequalities and injustice and revealed different social realities in Europe. The EU increasingly deals with social issues in its cultural and heritage policy. In this article, we explore the construction of this social dimension and advance the concept of 'social Europe' by exploring its cultural aspect based on our analysis of a recent EU heritage action, the European Heritage Label. In this action, the narrations of the European past and the attempts to foster common cultural heritage in Europe function as building blocks to create Europe as an intertwined cultural and social entity and to socialize a new generation of European citizens. We scrutinize the European Heritage Label and its notion of heritage from two perspectives. First, we analyse how the selection reports of these heritage sites construct a notion of social Europe. Second, we examine how visitors to these sites construct social Europe in their qualitative interviews. Key elements in this construction are narratives related to various values, mobility, and diversity.

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“…In 1992, the ICOMOS was assigned in an advisory role to implement the World Heritage Convention. The ICOMOS was established in 1965 by a group of primarily European architectural conservation experts [18,19] creating guidelines for introducing contemporary buildings into ancient sites. By the turn of the millennium, UNESCO had widened the concept of cultural heritage to include cultural landscapes, canals and routes, as well as modern, rural and industrial architecture [20]-efforts which have been accepted and committed to in most cases by all three countries, Italy, England and Spain (Figure 1).…”

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“…In the case of Europe, key actors such as the European Union (EU) and the Council of Europe (CoE) have debated the meaning and scope of cultural heritage throughout the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s and into the twenty-first century [10,12,16,19]. European experts have played a leading role in developing international conservation standards and concepts concerning heritage [20].…”

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Towards a Shared Understanding of the Concept of Heritage in the European Context

2019

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The purpose of this paper is to develop an understanding of commonalities and differences in the concept of cultural heritage in Europe. This was achieved through a comprehensive academic and non-academic literature review focused on different definitions and conceptualisations related to cultural heritage internationally and in the European context. This is complemented with a comparative study in three European countries. This paper frames cultural heritage using the foundation set up by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO). It further discusses the European actors involved in defining heritage today. Finally, it focuses on three European countries and verifies that they share an understanding of cultural heritage including classifications, categorisation and heritage values. Findings from the overall study show how the definition of cultural heritage across Europe is reasonably homogeneous, and this is confirmed by the analysis of the three chosen test case studies. This finding is relevant to policy makers as it allows the support of potential common frameworks for heritage management at the European level, including risk management and risk reduction common methodologies. Further studies will shed light on the implementation issues which may arise from the creation of a common European framework for cultural heritage management, with emphasis on risk management and risk reduction of cultural heritage.

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“…The first part of this Special Issue focuses on institutional uses of heritage. In the last few decades, European institutions have launched various cultural projects to anchor ‘Europe’ in a transnational, pan-European approach to heritage (see Jakubowski et al, 2019; Lähdesmäki et al, 2020; Zito et al, 2019). As a supranational institution, the EU thus seems to increasingly recognize the political potential of heritage to promote normative ideas and ideals about citizenship and belonging.…”

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Introduction: Heritage and the making of ‘Europe’

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Weyenberg

Volk

2022

Journal of European Studies

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The notion of ‘European heritage’ plays an increasingly important role in the discursive constructions of a collective sense of European belonging. This Special Issue critically reviews some of the contemporary instrumentalizations of European heritage as processes of borderwork by which various political and non-political actors demarcate the boundaries of Europe and European identity. Specifically, the nine contributions shed light on some of the top-down and bottom-up uses of European heritage and explore whether the borderwork of European heritage delineates and separates Europeanness as an exclusive and singular identity, or whether it constitutes a space of exchange, flow and entanglement where Europeanness is defined as inclusive and pluralistic. Characterized by interdisciplinarity, methodological variety and a conception of Europe broader than the European Union, this Special Issue aims to broaden the scope of scholarship in European studies and (critical) heritage studies.

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The instruments of European heritage 1

Cited by 7 publications

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Constructing social Europe through European cultural heritage

Constructing social Europe through European cultural heritage

Towards a Shared Understanding of the Concept of Heritage in the European Context

Introduction: Heritage and the making of ‘Europe’

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