Museums, Migration and Identity in Europe: Peoples, Places and Identities
- Submitting institution
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University of Newcastle upon Tyne
- Unit of assessment
- 34 - Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, Library and Information Management
- Output identifier
- 235156-83288-1286
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9781472425188
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- April
- Year of publication
- 2015
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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3
- Research group(s)
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B - Heritage
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This is a major contribution to European heritage studies focusing on the political significance of the past in times of European crisis. Emerging from a Horizon 2020 project, it is the most sustained fusion of heritage studies, conceptual history and political science understandings realised to date, particularly with regard to policy issues, governmentality and the concept of crisis. The book coincides with and responds to the incidence, intersection and discursive mobilisation of a series of 'crises' besetting the European project, and the book considers the cardinal role that imaginations of the past play within this 'critical moment' (double sense here, for in times of perceived crisis people are critical of contemporary orders, often referencing the past). Key theoretical advances relate to the concept of ‘dimensions’ of heritage as technical and affective spaces in which pasts and futures are constructed, in tension with others; the close arguments about the ways in which pasts are variously misrecognised, nostalgised and mobilised for political and identity purposes as a project of locating the ‘self in history’; and the re-articulation within a heritage frame of the concept of competing ‘multiple Europes’ as an explanation for crisis. While European heritage studies is a growing field with some landmark contributions, this is the only book to address the politics of crisis in such depth. Considerable datasets inform the book, alongside a carefully articulated qualitative approach that balances the vastness of the conceptual, political, geographical and temporal meanings of Europe against the need for deep and situated research. The book draws on considerable ethnographic research, including creative ethnography in the form of filmmaking, which (esp. ch. 9) provides material for analysis and reflection on the politics of the past in Europe as they pertain to questions and crises of belonging.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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