Diversity of Belonging in Europe: Public Spaces, Contested Places, Cultural Encounters

ISBN-13: 9781032043739 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 344 str.

Eckersley, Susannah

Opis

Diversity of Belonging in Europe analyses conflicting notions of identity and belonging in contemporary Europe. Addressing the creation, negotiation and (re)use of diverse spaces and places of belonging, the book examines their fascinating complexities in the context of a changing Europe.

Spis treści

Introduction; Part I: Redefining and negotiating public spaces of belonging; 1. Museums as a public space of belonging? Negotiating dialectics of purpose, presentation and participation; 2. Negotiated belonging: Migrant religious institutions in Warsaw; 3. "Deep Historicization" and Political and Spatio-Temporal "Centrism": Layers of time and belonging in the reconstructed city centres of Berlin and Potsdam; 4. Shaping Europeanness. The European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018 as a new mode of governance: Between coordinative and communicative discourses; 5. The Iceberg, the Stage and the Kitchen: Neglected public places and the role of design- led interventions; 6. Establishing a place in the European cultural space. Grassroots cultural action and practices of self-governance in South East Europe; Part II: Encountering contested belongings in public places; 7. Taxonomies of Pain: Museal Embodiments of Identity and Belonging in Post-communist Romania; 8. Negotiation of belonging of built heritage: Russian and Soviet heritage in Warsaw; 9. In the Centre of Conflict. Negotiating Belonging and Public Space in Post-Unification Berlin Mitte; 10. Encounters through Kahlenberg: Urban traces of transnational right-wing action; 11. Staging claims of belonging in a post-imperial England: Museums, Brexit and the ‘Windrush Scandal’; 12. Redefining collective heritage, identities and belonging: Colonial statues in the times of Black Lives Matter