Creating and Governing Cultural Heritage in the European Union The European Heritage Label Critical Heritages of Europe Series

Creating and Governing Cultural Heritage in the European Union: The European Heritage Label provides an interdisciplinary examination of the ways in which European cultural heritage is created, communicated, and governed via the new European Heritage Label scheme.

Drawing on ethnographic field research conducted across ten countries at sites that have been awarded with the European Heritage Label, the authors of the book approach heritage as an entangled social, spatial, temporal, discursive, narrative, performative, and embodied process. Recognising that heritage is inherently political and used by diverse actors as a tool for re-imagining communities, identities, and borders, and for generating notions of inclusion and exclusion in Europe, the book also considers the idea of Europe itself as a narrative. Chapters tackle issues such as multilevel governance of heritage; geopolitics of border-crossings and border-making; participation and non-participation; and embodiment and affective experience of heritage.

Creating and Governing Cultural Heritage in the European Union advances heritage studies with an interdisciplinary approach that utilises and combines theories and conceptualizations from critical geopolitics, political studies, EU and European studies, cultural policy research, and cultural studies. As such, the volume will be of interest to scholars and students engaged in the study of heritage, politics, belonging, the EU, ideas, and narratives of Europe.

Introduction: Europeanizing cultural heritage

I Governing Europe

1 Multilevel and participatory governance of European cultural heritage in the EU

2 Economics and branding European cultural heritage

II Geo-graphing Europe

3 Geo-graphing European cultural heritage

4 Heritage and bordering: unity in diversity and difference

III Engaging Europe

5 Participation: inclusive and exclusive heritage

6 Constructing communities through participation

IV Embodying Europe

7 Heritage sites as poly-space

8 Bodies in European cultural heritage

9 Europe’s gendered heritage

Conclusions: Narrating Europe

Tuuli Lähdesmäki is a Senior Researcher and an Adjunct Professor working at the Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

Viktorija L.A. Ceginskas is a Postdoctoral Researcher working at the Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

Sigrid Kaasik-Krogerus is a University Lecturer working at the Faculty of Arts, University of Helsinki, Finland.

Katja Mäkinen is a Senior Researcher working at the Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

Johanna Turunen is a Doctoral Candidate working at the Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.