This volume deals with the relation between heritage, history and
politics in the Balkans. Contributions examine diverse ways in
which material and immaterial heritage has been articulated,
negotiated and manipulated since the nineteenth century. The major
question addressed here is how modern Balkan nations have voiced
claims about their past by establishing 'proof' of a long
historical presence on their territories in order to legitimise
national political narratives. Focusing on claims constructed in
relation to tangible evidence of past presence, especially
architecture and townscape, the contributors reveal the rich
relations between material and immaterial conceptions of heritage.
This comparative take on Balkan public uses of the past also
reveals many common trends in social and political practices, ideas
and fixations embedded in public and collective memories. Balkan
Heritages revisits some general truths about the Balkans as a
region and a category, in scholarship and in politics.
Contributions to the volume adopt a transnational and
trans-disciplinary perspective of Balkan identities and
heritage(s), viewed here as symbolic resources deployed by diverse
local actors with special emphasis on scholars and political
leaders.
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