Governing Heritage Dissonance Promises And Realities Of Selected Cultural Policies Vinja Kisi by Višnja Kisić 9789062820696, 9062820697 instant download after payment.

In times when con icts are becoming increasingly culturalized and fuelled by identity politics, this pioneering study is timely in connecting heritage studies and cultural policies with issues of di erence, con icts and reconciliation. Using the case of South East Europe as exploration ground for wider philosophical and practical questions related to heritage, it calls on us to rethink how we approach the past and deal with diversities – among cultures, nations, communities, classes, gender, and generations. Finally, Kisić o ers invaluable insights in the bene ts and aws of international development aid and transitional justice actions in post-con ict areas, making a strong case for the crucial role of culture and heritage in overcoming symbolic violence and creating understanding of ‘the other’.
Governing Heritage Dissonance is a valuable contribution to the continued development of ‘New Heritage’ thinking. Written, refreshingly, from a South East European perspective it gives a cogent rebuttal to the notion that heritage is cosy or comfortable, and instead deals with dissonance and plurality as aspects of all heritage, as intrinsic as they are unavoidable. Through her analysis of four examples of attempts in South East Europe to use heritage to re-forge consensus and unity, Kisić in e ect asks why heritage dissonance is feared – must we always try to smooth it away, can its tensions be used constructively?