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Entangled memories: how to study Europe’s cultural heritage
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posted on 2023-06-09, 04:57 authored by Gerard DelantyA fruitful direction for research on the European cultural heritage is to adopt a transnational approach. Rather than see cultural heritage as predominantly expressed in national contexts, it could be seen as primarily transnational and as plural. Such a view would also suggest a conception of national histories as themselves products of transnational encounters. In this perspective, the European dimension is not then necessarily something over and above nations, but part of their heritage. Moreover, as fundamentally transnational, the European heritage is not exclusively confined to Europe. Cultural heritage is not something that is fixed or based on an essence; it is produced and reinterpreted by social actors in different but overlapping contexts. This is also an interpretative approach that draws attention to the entangled nature of memories and especially the cultural logic by which new conceptions and narratives of heritage emerge from the encounter and entanglement of different memories. Such an approach offers new opportunities for comparative research on the European heritage as an entangled mosaic of histories and memories. This approach thus rejects not only particularistic but also universalistic ones such as alternative Eurocentric accounts.
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European LegacyISSN
1084-8770Publisher
Taylor & FrancisExternal DOI
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2Volume
22Page range
129-145Department affiliated with
- Sociology and Criminology Publications
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2017-02-16First Open Access (FOA) Date
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2017-02-16Usage metrics
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