Creating and Governing Cultural Heritage in the European Union

<p><em>Creating and Governing Cultural Heritage in the European Union: The European Heritage Label</em> provides an interdisciplinary examination of the ways in which European cultural heritage is created communicated and governed via the new European Heritage Label scheme.</p><p>Drawing on ethnographic field research conducted across ten countries at sites that have been awarded with the European Heritage Label the authors of the book approach heritage as an entangled social spatial temporal discursive narrative performative and embodied process. Recognising that heritage is inherently political and used by diverse actors as a tool for re-imagining communities identities and borders and for generating notions of inclusion and exclusion in Europe the book also considers the idea of Europe itself as a narrative. Chapters tackle issues such as multilevel governance of heritage; geopolitics of border-crossings and border-making; participation and non-participation; and embodiment and affective experience of heritage.</p><p><em>Creating and Governing Cultural Heritage in the European Union</em> advances heritage studies with an interdisciplinary approach that utilises and combines theories and conceptualizations from critical geopolitics political studies EU and European studies cultural policy research and cultural studies. As such the volume will be of interest to scholars and students engaged in the study of heritage politics belonging the EU ideas and narratives of Europe.</p>