Coping with the Gazimestan Monument in Kosovo: Unraveling the Temporalities of Difficult Heritage
2024 (English)In: The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Cultural Heritage and Conflict / [ed] Ihab Saloul;Britt Baillie, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024, p. 1-11Chapter in book (Refereed)
Sustainable development
SDG 10: Reduce income inequality within and among countries, SDG 16: Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels, SDG 11: Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable
Abstract [en]
This entry looks at strategies of coping with a site of difficult heritage. It does this by focusing on the Gazimestan monument in Kosovo, a much-contested monument associated to the 1389 Kosovo Battle. The premise is that temporalities lie at the core of negotiating difficult heritage. This entry shows how temporalities of heritage can be actively produced as well as challenged, and that such production or challenge manifests itself through ways of engaging or not engaging with heritage. The Gazimestan monument connects to several temporalities that are instrumentalized in different coping strategies, such as temporal distancing, trivialization/banalization, and avoidance. On occasion, they are instrumentalized to create a sense of temporal collapse, making the distant past seem close and urgent. Other times, they are instrumentalized to create a sense of temporal divide, where the monument is positioned into a distant and harmless past. Unraveling the temporalities of difficult heritage is thus crucial to better understand the constant negotiation of how it is made and unmade as heritage, as well as its implications for the present and the future.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. p. 1-11
Keywords [en]
Heritage, difficult heritage, dark heritage, dissonant heritage, archaeology, Kosovo, Gazimestan, battle of Kosovo, mythology, nationalism, heritage futures, heritage and time, Yugoslavia, Monuments, Vidovdan, Heritage and conflict
National Category
Humanities and the Arts History and Archaeology
Research subject
Humanities
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-130922DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-61493-5_171-1ISBN: 978-3-030-61493-5 (print)ISBN: 978-3-030-61493-5 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:lnu-130922DiVA, id: diva2:1875863
Funder
German Research Foundation (DFG), GSC 208/22024-06-242024-06-242024-11-20Bibliographically approved