CENSORED? CONFLICTED CONCEPTS OF CULTURAL HERITAGE
Publication series “Identity and Heritage”, Vol. 4
Ayşegül Dinççağ Kahveci, Marcell Hajdu, Wolfram Höhne, Darja Jesse, Michael Karpf, Marta Torres Ruiz (Eds.)
Those who ask how social entities relate to the past, enter a field defined by competing interpretations and contested practices of a collectively shared heritage. Dissent and conflict among heritage communities represent productive moments in the negotiation of these varying constructs of the past, identities, and heritage. At the same time, they lead to omissions, the overwriting and amendment of existing constructs. A closer look at all that is suppressed, excluded or rejected opens up new perspectives: It reveals how social groups are formed through public disputes upon the material foundations of heritage constructs.
Taking the concept of censorship, the volume engages with the exclusionary and inclusionary mechanisms that underlie the construction of heritage and thus social identities. Censorship is understood here as a discursive strategy in public debates. In current debates, allegations of censorship surface primarily in cases where the handling of a certain heritage constructs is subjected to critical evaluation, or on the contrary, needs to be protected from criticism or even destruction. The authors trace the connection between heritage and identity and show that identity constructs are not only manifested within heritage but are actively negotiated through it.
With articles by: Anna Angelica Ainio, Arnold Bartezky, Friederike Landau-Donelly, Rachel Györffy, Nasima Islam, Irakli Khvadagiani, Kristina Leko/Jochen Kibel/Nnenna Onuoha/Niloufar Tajeri, Patricia Lenz, Lukas Rathjen, Natalie Reinsch, Anatolya Rykov, Klara Ullmanova
The book (ISBN 978-3-95773-304-7, 180 pages, €28.00) can be ordered from Bauhaus-Universitätsverlag: Censored?.
The online edition of this work is an open access publication under the Creative Commons licence CC BY-SA 4.0 and is freely available on the Bauhaus University Weimar website at https://doi.org/10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.4927.
Publication series “Identity and Heritage”
In this series, contributions by international academics, architects and artists are published on the key research areas of the DFG Research Training Group “Identity and Heritage”. The interdisciplinary research training group, which is running at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and the TU Berlin from 2016-2025, brings together previously parallel discourses from the fields of architecture, architectural theory, archival sciences, architectural and urban planning history, fine arts, monument preservation, art and architectural history, cultural and media history, landscape architecture, philosophy, sociology of planning and architecture, sociology of space, spatial planning and spatial research, and urban planning. A special focus of attention is the critical research of identity and heritage constructions based on buildings, historical places and other, mainly material, cultural traditions.
Series editors: Simone Bogner, Gabi Dolff-Bonekämper, Stephanie Herold, Wolfram Höhne, Hans-Rudolf Meier