Creating and Governing Cultural Heritage in the European Union

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. Čeginskas 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.

Based on an impressively thorough and rigorous multi-researcher project in a range of countries within Europe, this careful and in-depth analysis of the making and reception of the European Heritage label manages to be illuminating of the workings of EU heritage-making more widely. By showing the sometimes subtle ways in which heritage can exclude – even against the best of intentions – it contributes to the formation of a much-needed more equitable and inclusive heritage practice.Sharon Macdonald, Director of CARMAH (Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage) and Professor of Social Anthropology at the Humboldt University, Berlin, and author of Memorylands. Heritage and Identity in Europe Today (Routledge) and Difficult Heritage. Negotiating the Nazi Past in Nuremberg and Beyond (Routledge). Creating and Governing Cultural Heritage in the European Union is a highly original and enlightening book based on ambitious, interdisciplinary collective research. Thanks to its unprecedented ‘ethnography of European cultural heritage’, it makes a major contribution to the study of European cultural identity. While wisely focusing on a specific EU programme, the European Heritage Label, the authors explore far-reaching issues related to the construction of an EU space and community and to the emergence of narratives of Europe. The strength of this monograph lies in the rich data collected which reveal multifacted Europeanization processes among diverse actors such as EU officials, cultural practitioners and visitors. The reading of this book will be very valuable for graduate students and scholars of the EU from various disciplines, and for anyone interested in the uses of culture and heritage in European politics. Oriane Calligaro, Associate Professor in Political Science at ESPOL, Université catholique de Lille, France

• Introduction: Europeanizing cultural heritageI Governing Europe1 Multilevel and participatory governance of European cultural heritage in the EU2 Economics and branding European cultural heritageII Geo-graphing Europe 3 Geo-graphing European cultural heritage4 Heritage and bordering: unity in diversity and differenceIII Engaging Europe5 Participation: inclusive and exclusive heritage6 Constructing communities through participationIV Embodying Europe7 Heritage sites as poly-space8 Bodies in European cultural heritage9 Europe’s gendered heritageConclusions: Narrating Europe