Coping with the Gazimestan Monument in Kosovo: Unraveling the Temporalities of Difficult Heritage
2024 (engelsk)Inngår i: The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Cultural Heritage and Conflict / [ed] Ihab Saloul;Britt Baillie, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024, s. 1-11Kapittel i bok, del av antologi (Fagfellevurdert)
Hållbar utveckling
SDG 10: Minska ojämlikheten inom och mellan länder, SDG 16: Främja fredliga och inkluderande samhällen för hållbar utveckling, tillhandahålla tillgång till rättvisa för alla samt bygga upp effektiva och inkluderande institutioner med ansvarsutkrävande på alla nivåer, SDG 11: Göra städer och bosättningar inkluderande, säkra, motståndskraftiga och hållbara
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.
sted, utgiver, år, opplag, sider
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. s. 1-11
Emneord [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
HSV kategori
Forskningsprogram
Humaniora
Identifikatorer
URN: urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-130922DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-61493-5_171-1ISBN: 978-3-030-61493-5 (tryckt)ISBN: 978-3-030-61493-5 (digital)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:lnu-130922DiVA, id: diva2:1875863
Forskningsfinansiär
German Research Foundation (DFG), GSC 208/22024-06-242024-06-242024-11-20bibliografisk kontrollert