Dissonant Heritages and Memories in Contemporary Europe.

Dissonant Heritages and Memories in Contemporary Europe -- Preface -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Europe, Heritage and Memory-Dissonant Encounters and Explorations -- Encounters at the Crossroads of Research Agendas -- Dissonant Heritages in Europe -- Explorations of Heritage and Memory Dissonances in Contemporary Europe -- References -- Part I Conflict and Reconciliation -- Chapter 2 Conflicts and Reconciliation in the Postmillennial Heritage-Policy Discourses of the Council of Europe and the European Union -- Introduction -- The EU and the Council of Europe as Heritage-Policy Actors -- European Heritage-Policy Discourses as Tools to Tackle Contemporary Challenges -- Tackling Challenges: The Council of Europe -- Tackling Challenges: The EU -- Threats and Possibilities of European Heritage-Policy Discourses -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 3 Interconceptualizing Europe and Peace: Identity Building Under the European Heritage Label -- Material and Methodological Approach -- Theoretical Framework: Politics of Past, Memory, and Heritage -- The Concept of Peace in European Integration -- Interconceptualizations of Europe and Peace in the EHL Sites -- Peace Treaties and Conventions -- Peace Institutions -- Peace Practices -- Peace Symbols -- European Peace Narrative: Harmonious and Dissonant -- Conclusions: Building Identity Through a European Peace Heritage -- References -- Chapter 4 Europe's Peat Fire: Intangible Heritage and the Crusades for Identity -- What's in a Song? -- The Intangible Heritage Turn -- What's on the List? -- The Hyperreality of Heritage Communities -- Our Way of Life -- From Black Pete to Kolobok -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II Borders and Mobility -- Chapter 5 Bodies Making Spaces: Understanding the Airport as a Site of Dissonance.

Methodological Framework and Conceptual Approach -- Space and Belonging -- Europe and Race -- Bordering Processes -- Politics of the Airport -- Phenomenology of the Airport -- Peripheral Imaginaries -- The Airport: Non-place or Heritage Site? -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6 Politics of Mobility and Stability in Authorizing European Heritage: Estonia's Great Guild Hall -- Politics of Mobility and Stability in Forming AHD -- Dissonance of Europeanization and Domestication -- The Great Guild Hall as Empirical Data -- The Politics of Mobility and Stability in the Exhibitions -- Depoliticizing and Naturalizing Stability and Mobility -- Problematizing and Politicizing Stability and Mobility -- Discussion and Conclusions -- References -- Part III Colonial Pasts in the Present -- Chapter 7 A Geography of Coloniality: Re-narrating European Integration -- The European Heritage Label and Authorized Heritage Discourse -- Modernity/Coloniality and Lingering Eurocentrism -- Narrating European Significance in the European Heritage Label -- The Idea of "European Values" -- Narrating Integration -- Spreading Europeanness Beyond Europe -- A Geography of Coloniality -- Concluding Remarks -- Appendix 1: List of European Heritage Label Sites 2011-2016 -- Data -- Chapter 8 Contesting Cultural Heritage: Decolonizing the Tropenmuseum as an Intervention in the Dutch/European Memory Complex -- Introduction -- Conceptualizing Contested Heritage and Introducing the Research Questions -- The Tropenmuseum: A Short History and Observations from Early 2017 -- Decolonizing the Tropenmuseum: Interventions by an Activist Group and Critical Curators -- Observed Changes in the Tropenmuseum -- Contextualizing Changes to the Cultural Archive and Memory Complex: Success or Failure? -- Conclusion and Theoretical Reflection -- References.

Chapter 9 Geography of Emotions Across the Black Mediterranean: Oral Memories and Dissonant Heritages of Slavery and the Colonial Past -- Introduction -- Dissonant Memories and Imaginative Geographies -- Theorizing a Geography of Emotions -- Dissonant Heritages of the Black Mediterranean -- Oral Memories of the Black Mediterranean -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Chapter 10 Epilogue -- References -- Index.

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