Polarized Pasts : : Heritage and Belonging in Times of Political Polarization /

Polarized Pasts : : Heritage and Belonging in Times of Political Polarization / / ed. by Elisabeth Niklasson.

When questions of belonging enter the forefront of political debates, so too does heritage. This volume draws critical voices from archaeology, anthropology and the classics into a conversation about political uses of the past in times of radical right populism. The authors show how ancient monument...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2023
MitwirkendeR:
Bernbeck, Reinhard,
Cesari, Chiara de,
Colwell, Chip,
González-Ruibal, Alfredo,
Herzfeld, Michael,
Hølleland, Herdis,
Kennedy, Rebecca Futo,
Källén, Anna,
Niklasson, Elisabeth,
Thorleifsson, Cathrine,
HerausgeberIn:
Niklasson, Elisabeth,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Explorations in Heritage Studies ; 8
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Physical Description:1 online resource (234 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • INTRODUCTION Heritage and Belonging in Times of Political Polarization
  • CHAPTER 1 Heritage, Memory, Race: The Culture of the Far Right
  • CHAPTER 2 Innocence Reinvented: Far-Right Myth-Making in Hungary
  • CHAPTER 3 Possessive Pasts: Heritage in Far-Right Rhetoric in Scandinavia
  • CHAPTER 4 ‘Western Civilization’, White Supremacism and the Myth of a White Ancient Greece
  • CHAPTER 5 Memory between Repression and Deception: Germany’s Shattered Stratigraphies
  • CHAPTER 6 Walking through the Darkest Valley: Heritage and Hatred in the Era of Reactionary Populism
  • CHAPTER 7 Is DNA a Dangerous Heritage?
  • CHAPTER 8 The Sigtuna Debacle: A Story of Ancient DNA, Immigrants and Fake News in a Viking Age Town in Sweden
  • CHAPTER 9 The Threat of Essence: Reflections on the Heritage of Racism and the Racism of Heritage
  • Index

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