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Polarized pasts : heritage and belonging in times of political polarization / edited by Elisabeth Niklasson

Niklasson, Elisabeth, 1981- [Herausgeberin/-geber]

New York ; Oxford : Berghahn, 2023

viii, 225 Seiten : Illustrationen

Englisch

Heritage and belonging in times of political polarization / Elisabeth Niklasson -- Heritage, memory, race : the culture of the far right / Chiara de Cesari -- Innocence reinvented : far-right myth-making in Hungary / Cathrine Thorleifsson -- Possessive pasts : heritage in far-right rhetoric in Scandinavia / Elisabeth Niklasson and Herdis Hølleland -- 'Western civilization', white supremacism and the myth of a white ancient Greece / Rebecca Futo Kennedy -- Memory between repression and deception : Germany's shattered stratigraphies / Reinhard Bernbeck -- Walking through the darkest valley : heritage and hatred in the era of reactionary populism / Alfredo González-Ruibal-- Is DNA a dangerous heritage? / Chip Colwell -- The sigtuna debacle : a story of ancient DNA, immigrants and fake news in a Viking age town in Sweden / Anna Källén -- The threat of essence : reflections on the heritage of racism and the racism of heritage / Michael Herzfeld.

Includes bibliographical references and index

Erscheint auch als: Polarized pasts. - New York : Berghahn Books, 2023 (Online-Ausgabe)

Erscheint auch als: Polarized Pasts (Online-Ausgabe)

978-1-80073-848-5 (hardback)

978-1-80073-849-2 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)

2022036427

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.3167/9781800738485

HN90.P57

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LOC-SH: Polarization (Social sciences) ; National characteristics -- Political aspects ; Cultural property -- Political aspects ; Ethnicity -- Political aspects ; Right and left (Political science) ; Emigration and immigration -- Political asepcts

"When questions of belonging enter the forefront of political debates, so too does heritage. From different ends at the political spectrum, people invoke the past to validate their stance on immigration, equality and security. In the wake of European crises and a polarized US political landscape, heritage is invoked to both halt and embrace immigration, as well as to resist and further globalization. Essays demonstrate how ancient monuments and sites, bygone eras and political regimes, even your genetic ancestry, can become wrapped up in polarized political debates. Together, the texts pave the way for a better understanding of the role of the heritage in society"--