EAN: 9783957733047

CENSORED? KARTONIERT (TB)

Those who ask how social entities relate to the past  enter a field defined by competing
interpretations and contested practices of a collectively shared heritage. Dissent and conflict
among heritage communities represent productive moments in the negotiation of these varying
constructs of the past  identities  and heritage. At the same time  they lead to omissions  the
overwriting and amendment of existing constructs. A closer look at all that is suppressed 
excluded or rejected opens up new perspectives: It reveals how social groups are formed through
public disputes upon the material foundations of heritage constructs. Taking the concept of
censorship  the volume engages with the exclusionary and inclusionary mechanisms that underlie
the construction of heritage and thus social identities. Censorship is understood here as a
discursive strategy in public debates. In current debates  allegations of censorship surface
primarily in cases where the handling of a certain heritage constructs is subjected to critical
evaluation  or on the contrary  needs to be protected from criticism or even destruction. The
authors trace the connection between heritage and identity and show that identity constructs
are not only manifested within heritage but are actively negotiated through it.

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