Dissonant Heritages and Memories in Contemporary Europe
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license This open access book discusses political, economic, social, and humanitarian challenges that influence both how people deal with their past and how they build their identities in contemporary Europe. Ongoing debates on migration, on local, national, inter- and transnational levels, prove that it is a divisive issue with regards to understanding European integration and identity. At the same time, the European Union increasingly invests in projects related to European heritage, museums, and cultural memory networks, while having to take dissonant heritages into account. These processes in their combination offer an interesting dynamic and form the complex puzzle that poses challenging questions for anyone involved in academic research, heritage practices, and policy debates. With this puzzle at its core, this book explicitly focuses on slippery and transforming notions of Europe and critically discusses ongoing and transforming power structures of heritage and memory in today’s Europe. The book combines theoretical and methodological contributions to the debates on European heritage and memory studies and in-depth analyses of empirical case studies. Its main aim is to bring research fields concerning memory and heritage into a closer dialogue and thus explore the cultural and political dynamics of contemporary Europe. Tuuli Lähdesmäki is Adjunct Professor/Docent of Art History and Senior Researcher in the Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Luisa Passerini is Professor Emerita of History in the Department of History and Civilization at the European University Institute, Italy. She was formerly Professor in Cultural History, Department of History at the University of Turin, Italy. Sigrid Kaasik-Krogerus is Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Iris van Huis (PhD) is Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license This open access book discusses political, economic, social, and humanitarian challenges that influence both how people deal with their past and how they build their identities in contemporary Europe. Ongoing debates on migration, on local, national, inter- and transnational levels, prove that it is a divisive issue with regards to understanding European integration and identity. At the same time, the European Union increasingly invests in projects related to European heritage, museums, and cultural memory networks, while having to take dissonant heritages into account. These processes in their combination offer an interesting dynamic and form the complex puzzle that poses challenging questions for anyone involved in academic research, heritage practices, and policy debates. With this puzzle at its core, this book explicitly focuses on slippery and transforming notions of Europe and critically discusses ongoing and transforming power structures of heritage and memory in today’s Europe. The book combines theoretical and methodological contributions to the debates on European heritage and memory studies and in-depth analyses of empirical case studies. Its main aim is to bring research fields concerning memory and heritage into a closer dialogue and thus explore the cultural and political dynamics of contemporary Europe. Tuuli Lähdesmäki is Adjunct Professor/Docent of Art History and Senior Researcher in the Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Luisa Passerini is Professor Emerita of History in the Department of History and Civilization at the European University Institute, Italy. She was formerly Professor in Cultural History, Department of History at the University of Turin, Italy. Sigrid Kaasik-Krogerus is Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Iris van Huis (PhD) is Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license This open access book discusses political, economic, social, and humanitarian challenges that influence both how people deal with their past and h
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2019 Jan 01
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Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies University of Jyväskylä Jyväskylä, Finland. Tuuli Lähdesmäki is an Academy of Finland Research Fellow and Adjunct Professor working in the Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies, University of Jyväskylä (JYU), Finland. Lähdesmäki cur- rently leads an ERC Starting Grant project, “Legitimation of European Cultural Heritage and the Dynamics of Identity Politics in the EU” (EUROHERIT). She is also leading JYU’s consortium partnership in the “Dialogue and Argumentation for cultural Literacy Learning in Schools” (DIALLS) project, funded by the EU’s H2020 Programme. In addition, she is one of the PIs in JYU’s “Crises Redefined: Historical Continuity and Societal Change” (CRISES) research profiling area.
Tuuli Lähdesmäki (Editor)
Department of History and Civilization European University Institute Florence, Italy. Luisa Passerini is Professor Emerita at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, former Professor of Cultural History at Turin University, Italy, recipient of the All European Academies 2014 Madame de Staël Prize for Cultural Values. She was the Principal Investigator of the European Research Council Project “Bodies Across Borders: Oral and Visual Memory in Europe and Beyond” from 2013 to 2018. She has studied the subjects of social and cultural change, ranging from African liberation movements, twentieth-century workers’, students’ and wom- en’s movements, to migrants to and through Europe, using memory in its oral, written and visual forms.
Luisa Passerini (Editor)
Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies University of Jyväskylä Jyväskylä, Finland. Sigrid Kaasik-Krogerus is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. She currently works in the Legitimation of European Cultural Heritage and the Dynamics of Identity Politics in the EU (EUROHERIT) research project funded by the European Research Council. From 2015 to 2018, she was a member of the Jean Monnet Module “East within Europe” funded by the Erasmus+ at the Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland. Kaasik-Krogerus specializes in media and communica- tion, identity and belonging, heritage, and European studies in the con- text of the EU and Central and East European countries.
Sigrid Kaasik-Krogerus (Editor)
Department of Political Science Radboud University Nijmegen Nijmegen, Gelderland The Netherlands. Iris van Huis received her Ph.D. at the Department of Political Science of Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands, and is currently a lecturer at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, teaching about “Cities and Change”. In her Ph.D. research, she stud- ied how social interventions that try to engage men in gender-equality issues impact on inequalities and intersections of gender, ethnicity, and class, while also studying normalizing and enabling angles. In the BABE research project, van Huis studied refugee migrants’ visual and oral resistances against anti-immigrant discourse. She also studied how recent changes in the Amsterdam Tropenmuseum were initiated by a protest group called Decolonize the Museum, placing these efforts into a wider national and European perspective.
Iris van Huis (Editor)
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