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Introduction: using our pasts, defining our futures – debating heritage and culture in Europe
2019
This introduction to the themed section Using our Past, Defining our Futures – Debating Heritage and Culture in Europe summarises the three articles and outlines their approach to heritage. The aut...
‘Where the F… is Vuotso?’ : heritage of Second World War forced movement and destruction in a Sámi reindeer herding community in Finnish Lapland
2017
In this paper we discuss the heritage of the WWII evacuation and the so-called ‘burning of Lapland’ within a Sámi reindeer herding community, and assess how these wartime experiences have moulded, and continue to mould, the ways people memorialise and engage with the WWII material remains. Our focus is on the village of Vuotso, which is home to the southernmost Sámi community in Finland. The Nazi German troops established a large military base there in 1941, and the Germans and the villagers lived as close neighbours for several years. In 1944 the villagers were evacuated before the outbreak of the Finno-German ‘Lapland War’ of 1944–1945, in which the German troops annihilated their militar…
The Gentili di Giuseppe Case in France
2001
In ordering the Louvre to return five paintings in its safekeeping to the Gentili di Giuseppe heirs, the Appeal Court of Paris found an appropriate legal solution to the case before it. However, it proved beyond the ability of the court to fully resolve the moral issues
Categories and boundaries in Sámi exhibitions
2019
This article examines the construction of ethnicity in the permanent exhibitions of two Sami museums: Siida, the National Museum of the Finnish Sami and a Nature Centre of Metsahallitus, and ajtte, the Swedish Mountain and Sami Museum. The aim of the article is to find out how ethnic categories and boundaries are created by the exhibitions, and how the museum presentations relate to contemporary public discussions about Sami ethnicity. The presentations are analysed within the framework of discourse analysis. The findings suggest that the two museums, with a few possible exceptions, tend to produce a clear and stable ethnic boundary between the Sami and other ethnicities. Like the Sami ethn…
Politics of affect in the EU heritage policy discourse : an analysis of promotional videos of sites awarded with the European Heritage Label
2017
European cultural heritage is discussed with affective rhetoric in current European Union (EU) policy discourse. How does affect contribute to the meaning-making of a European cultural heritage and how are the workings of affect used by the EU to promote certain meanings of heritage and effect thereupon? The analysis focuses on recent promotional videos of sites awarded with the European Heritage Label by the EU. In the videos, affective textual, visual, audible, and narrative tropes intertwine with the tropes of EU policy rhetoric, increasing its capacity to impact and ‘move’ the receivers. The ethos of a European cultural heritage in the videos is based on a paradox: the history of the se…
Toponymic politics and the role of heritagisation in multiethnic cities in Romania
2022
Although scholars have made considerable progress in understanding the dynamics of heritagisation and toponymic politics, research is yet to explore how these may interact with each other. Drawing on a mixed-methods comparative qualitative study, this paper explores the politics of place naming and multilingualism in the context of heritagisation in three multiethnic cities in Romania: Târgu Mureş, Oradea and Baia Mare. We argue that the recent trends of heritagisation introduce a new element in the politics of place naming in ethnically diverse cities. Heritage becomes inclusive when it loses its importance in the power struggle between minority and majority political representatives. Once…
Museum education, cultural sustainability, and English language teaching in Spain
2020
The collaborative action research project presented analysed the potential of museum education to radically transform the way in which English was taught and learnt in three diverse elementary, middle, and high-school contexts in the province of València (Spain). Insights from museum education and New Literacy Studies were used to expand upon the pedagogical affordances of the material and multimodal dimensions of English language teaching, in order to generate more opportunities for student motivation and engagement by connecting with the learners' home and community cultures, identities, languages, and literacies. To assess the impact of the project, a variety of qualitative strategies we…
Pillage and Restitution: What Became of Works of Art Removed from France to Germany during World War II?, Paris, 17 November 1996
1997
National museums and nation-building
2016
National Museums and Nation-Building in Europe 1750–2010: Mobilization and Legitimacy, Continuity and Change is a volume edited by Peter Aronsson and Gabriella Elgenius. Together with Stefan Berger...
Memories, forgetting and silences in the museographical proposal of the memory center “La Perla”
2019
El artículo analiza el proceso de selección y consagración de memorias en un caso particular: el del Espacio para la Memoria que funciona en lo que durante la última dictadura en Argentina (1976-1983) fue el Centro Clandestino de Detención (CCD) conocido como “La Perla” en la provincia de Córdoba, Argentina. El mismo analiza las funciones que fue asumiendo el lugar: CCD, cuartel militar, espacio de memorias, y los valores que diferentes grupos y el estado le adjudicaron a lo largo de su historia. A partir de allí, aborda las propuestas elaboradas para su institucionalización como espacio de memoria, la elaboración del guion del museo de sitio y las muestras exhibidas, profundizando en el ju…