1st Edition

Heritage Diplomacy Discourses, Imaginaries and Practices of Heritage and Power

Edited By Tuuli Lähdesmäki, Viktorija L.A. Čeginskas Copyright 2024
148 Pages
by Routledge

148 Pages
by Routledge

148 Pages
by Routledge

The book focuses on international cultural relations dealing with cultural heritage in terms of heritage diplomacy. The contributors discuss the potentials and limitations of heritage diplomacy and how it could be approached in theory, policy, and praxis. Cultural heritage is an essential element in transmitting values, establishing narratives of historical and contemporary connectivity, and... Read more

Introduction: reflecting on heritage diplomacy

Viktorija L. A. Čeginskas and Tuuli Lähdesmäki

1. EU heritage diplomacy: entangled external and internal cultural relations

Katja Mäkinen, Tuuli Lähdesmäki, Sigrid Kaasik-Krogerus, Viktorija L. A. Čeginskas and Johanna Turunen

2. Mainstreaming heritages: abstract heritage values as strategic resources in EU external relations

Stefan Groth

3. Dialogic approach in the EU’s international cultural relations: joint EUNIC-EU delegation projects as heritage diplomacy

Viktorija L. A. Čeginskas and Tuuli Lähdesmäki

4. Debating structural violence in European heritage diplomacy

Johanna Turunen and Sigrid Kaasik-Krogerus 

5. Heritage diplomacy through the lens of the European Capitals of Culture programme

Cristina Clopot

6. ‘Contact zones’ of heritage diplomacy: transformations of museums in the (post)pandemic reality

Natalia Grincheva

7. ‘Constructing’ heritage diplomacy in Central Asia: China’s Sinocentric historicisation of transnational World Heritage Sites

Giulia Sciorati 

8. Inviting all humanity to an elite club? Understanding tensions in UNESCO’s global heritage regimes through the lens of a typology of goods

Hanna Schreiber and Bartosz Pieliński 

Heritage diplomacy; an afterword

Tim Winter

Biography

Tuuli Lähdesmäki is Associate Professor at the Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies, at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

Viktorija L. A. Čeginskas is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of History and Ethnology of the University of Jyväskylä, Finland.