Gustav Wollentz defended his PhD in the summer of 2018 at the Graduate School of Human Development in Landscapes, Kiel University, Germany. He received his Bachelor’s and his Master’s degrees in Archaeology from Linnaeus University in Sweden. In 2018 and in 2019, he was hired within the AHRC-funded Heritage Futures research programme to co-author a chapter on “toxic heritage.” He is currently working as a project leader / researcher at the Nordic Centre of Heritage Learning and Creativity, in Östersund, Sweden.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Heritage, violence and temporalities.- 3. Memories, landscapes and the production of narratives.- 4. The temporalities of belonging.- 5. Remembering and forgetting in Mostar.- 6. Places of reclaiming continuity.- 7. The burden of the past.- 8. The temporalities of Gazimestan.- 9. Negated spaces and strategies of irrelevance.- 10. Prehistoric violence as difficult heritage.- 11. A place of avoidance and belonging.- 12. Concluding Discussion.

Gustav Wollentz defended his PhD in the summer of 2018 at the Graduate School of Human Development in Landscapes, Kiel University, Germany. He received his Bachelor’s and his Master’s degrees in Archaeology from Linnaeus University in Sweden. In 2018 and in 2019, he was hired within the AHRC-funded Heritage Futures research programme to co-author a chapter on “toxic heritage.” He is currently working as a project leader / researcher at the Nordic Centre of Heritage Learning and Creativity, in Östersund, Sweden.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Heritage, violence and temporalities.- 3. Memories, landscapes and the production of narratives.- 4. The temporalities of belonging.- 5. Remembering and forgetting in Mostar.- 6. Places of reclaiming continuity.- 7. The burden of the past.- 8. The temporalities of Gazimestan.- 9. Negated spaces and strategies of irrelevance.- 10. Prehistoric violence as difficult heritage.- 11. A place of avoidance and belonging.- 12. Concluding Discussion.

Gustav Wollentz defended his PhD in the summer of 2018 at the Graduate School of Human Development in Landscapes, Kiel University, Germany. He received his Bachelor’s and his Master’s degrees in Archaeology from Linnaeus University in Sweden. In 2018 and in 2019, he was hired within the AHRC-funded Heritage Futures research programme to co-author a chapter on “toxic heritage.” He is currently working as a project leader / researcher at the Nordic Centre of Heritage Learning and Creativity, in Östersund, Sweden.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Heritage, violence and temporalities.- 3. Memories, landscapes and the production of narratives.- 4. The temporalities of belonging.- 5. Remembering and forgetting in Mostar.- 6. Places of reclaiming continuity.- 7. The burden of the past.- 8. The temporalities of Gazimestan.- 9. Negated spaces and strategies of irrelevance.- 10. Prehistoric violence as difficult heritage.- 11. A place of avoidance and belonging.- 12. Concluding Discussion.