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Critical Heritage Studies and the Futures of Europe
This book applies heritage studies to the present and the future of Europe.
Cultural and natural heritage are central to ideas of what Europe and “the European project’” are. Heritage studies were prevalent 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, with new discourses and ontologies emerging to reconfigure heritage for the circumstances of the present and the uncertainties of the future.
Cultural and natural heritage are central to ideas of what Europe and “the European project’” are. Heritage studies were prevalent 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, with new discourses and ontologies emerging to reconfigure heritage for the circumstances of the present and the uncertainties of the future.
Table of Contents
List
of figuresList
of tablesAbout
the ContributorsPreface
and acknowledgements
Critical
heritage studies and the futures of Europe: an introductionRodney Harrison, Nélia Dias, and Kristian Kristiansen
Part 1: Heritage and global challenges
Editors’ introduction to Part 1
1 Rethinking museums for the climate
emergencyRodney Harrison and
Colin Sterling
2 From
climate victim to climate action: Heritage as agent in climate change
mitigation discourseJanna oud Ammerveld
3 Syrian refugees’ food
in Lisbon: A heritage of food beyond national bordersMarcela Jaramillo
4 Relations with objects:
a longitudinal case studyKatie O’Donoghue
Part 2:
Curating the city: rethinking urban heritages
Editors’ introduction to Part 2
5 Erosion and preservation of the cultural
and geological heritage in mega city landscapes of the Global South: A
geo-aesthetic inquiryPeter Krieger
6 Recognising
urban heritage written in water: Mapping fluctuating articulations in time
and spaceMoniek Driesse
7 Participatory
design in the context of heritage-development: Engaging with the past in the
design space of historical landscapesMela Zuljevic
8 The (over)touristification of
European historic cities: a relation between urban heritage and short-term
rental market demandLukasz Bugalski
9 Overtourism vs pandemic: the fragility of
our historic citiesMaria Pia Guermandi
Part 3:
Digital heritages and digital futures
Editors’ introduction to Part 3
10 Datafied
landscapes: Exploring digital maps as (critical) heritageStuart Dunn
11 Womenof1916
and the heritage of the Easter Rising on TwitterHannah Smyth
12 The
material and immaterial historic environmentWilliam Illsley
13 Digitality
as a cultural policy instrument: Europeana and the Europeanisation of digital heritageCarlotta Capurro
14 De-neutralizing
digital heritage infrastructures? Critical considerations on digital
engagements with the past in the context of EuropeGertjan Plets, Julianne Nyhan,
Andrew Flinn, Alexandra Ortolja-Baird, and Jaap Verheul
Part 4:
Postcolonial legacies: ‘European’ heritages beyond Europe
Editors’ introduction to Part 4
15 Heritage pharmacology
and ‘moving heritage’: Making refugees, asylum seekers and Palestine part of
the European conscienceBeverley
Butler and Fatima Al-Nammari
16 How to tell the good guys from the bad guys… or
notRandall H McGuire
17 Traumatic heritage, politics of visibility
and the standardisation of plaques and memorials in the city of São Paulo,
BrazilMárcia Lika Hattori
18 Lampedusa here and there: activating memories of migration in
Amsterdam’s historic centre – a resource for whom?Vittoria
Caradonna
Concluding reflections
AfterwordBarbara
Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Distinguished Professor Emerita of Performance Studies,
New York University Index
of figuresList
of tablesAbout
the ContributorsPreface
and acknowledgements
Critical
heritage studies and the futures of Europe: an introductionRodney Harrison, Nélia Dias, and Kristian Kristiansen
Part 1: Heritage and global challenges
Editors’ introduction to Part 1
1 Rethinking museums for the climate
emergencyRodney Harrison and
Colin Sterling
2 From
climate victim to climate action: Heritage as agent in climate change
mitigation discourseJanna oud Ammerveld
3 Syrian refugees’ food
in Lisbon: A heritage of food beyond national bordersMarcela Jaramillo
4 Relations with objects:
a longitudinal case studyKatie O’Donoghue
Part 2:
Curating the city: rethinking urban heritages
Editors’ introduction to Part 2
5 Erosion and preservation of the cultural
and geological heritage in mega city landscapes of the Global South: A
geo-aesthetic inquiryPeter Krieger
6 Recognising
urban heritage written in water: Mapping fluctuating articulations in time
and spaceMoniek Driesse
7 Participatory
design in the context of heritage-development: Engaging with the past in the
design space of historical landscapesMela Zuljevic
8 The (over)touristification of
European historic cities: a relation between urban heritage and short-term
rental market demandLukasz Bugalski
9 Overtourism vs pandemic: the fragility of
our historic citiesMaria Pia Guermandi
Part 3:
Digital heritages and digital futures
Editors’ introduction to Part 3
10 Datafied
landscapes: Exploring digital maps as (critical) heritageStuart Dunn
11 Womenof1916
and the heritage of the Easter Rising on TwitterHannah Smyth
12 The
material and immaterial historic environmentWilliam Illsley
13 Digitality
as a cultural policy instrument: Europeana and the Europeanisation of digital heritageCarlotta Capurro
14 De-neutralizing
digital heritage infrastructures? Critical considerations on digital
engagements with the past in the context of EuropeGertjan Plets, Julianne Nyhan,
Andrew Flinn, Alexandra Ortolja-Baird, and Jaap Verheul
Part 4:
Postcolonial legacies: ‘European’ heritages beyond Europe
Editors’ introduction to Part 4
15 Heritage pharmacology
and ‘moving heritage’: Making refugees, asylum seekers and Palestine part of
the European conscienceBeverley
Butler and Fatima Al-Nammari
16 How to tell the good guys from the bad guys… or
notRandall H McGuire
17 Traumatic heritage, politics of visibility
and the standardisation of plaques and memorials in the city of São Paulo,
BrazilMárcia Lika Hattori
18 Lampedusa here and there: activating memories of migration in
Amsterdam’s historic centre – a resource for whom?Vittoria
Caradonna
Concluding reflections
AfterwordBarbara
Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Distinguished Professor Emerita of Performance Studies,
New York University Index