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Chapter 1 Dimensions of European heritage and memory


Author: Whitehead, Christopher, Daugbjerg, Mads, Eckersley, Susannah, Bozoğlu, Gönül
Source: Directory of Open Access Books
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9781138589476
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This book is a reflection on the politics of heritage in Europe at the present time, in a moment of pluralised conceptions of the political, social and demographic organisation proper to Europe. It is not a book that seeks to survey, define or characterise an enduring ‘European heritage’ as an entity, but rather to explore what heritage does – how it is understood, instrumentalised and what it enables – within what we will argue is a ‘critical’ moment for both identities and geopolitics in Europe.