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This collection scrutinizes the role of heritage in ‘conflict-time’, inquires what role the past might have in creating new identities at the local, regional, national, and supra-national levels, and investigates the dynamics of heritage as a process.

This collection scrutinizes the role of heritage in ‘conflict-time’, inquires what role the past might have in creating new identities at the local, regional, national, and supra-national levels, and investigates the dynamics of heritage as a process.

The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Cultural Heritage and Conflict critically analyses the relationship between cultural heritage and conflict as well as the tangible and intangible remnants, traces and spaces of competing heritages and memories of the past in the present. The interdisciplinary scope of the encyclopaedia breaks new ground in the study of contemporary narratives of cultural heritage and conflict and the ways in which they broaden public understandings of the complex spacio-temporal dynamics between heritage, memory, conflict, and identity. By crossing academic, artistic and professional boundaries, the encyclopedia aims to contribute to a better understanding of the extent to which practices and discourses of heritage and conflict operate as vehicles at local, national and transnational levels.Section Editors:Prof. Nanci Adler, Dr Georgia Andreou, Prof. Maria Boletsi, Dr. Emily Clark, Prof. Gisèle Gantois, Dr Kristina Gedgaudaite, Prof. Tawfique M Haque,  Prof. Charles Jeurgens, Dr. Nur Newaz Khan, Prof. Gregor Langfeld, Dr. Francesca Lanz, Prof. Julia Noordegraaf, Dr. Christian Olesen, Dr. Mario Panico, Dr. Francesco Mazzucchelli, Dr Robert Parthesius, Dr. Alex Seo, Dr. Klaas Stutje, Dr. Shadia Taha, Dr. Evren Uzer, Dr. Ernst van den Hemel, Prof. Jan Willem Van Henten, Prof. Ihab Saloul, Dr. Britt Baillie.

By critically analysing the often romanticised discourses of ‘heritage’, ‘community engagement’, and ‘sustainable development’ the volume suggests ways of harnessing aspects of heritage to tackle some of the socio-economic and political pressures facing heritage practices on the continent, including the legacies of colonialism.