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- Bernsand, Niklas, et al.
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Cultural Heritage in Sweden in the 2000s: Contexts, debates, paradoxes
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Ingår i: Politeja. - 1733-6716. ; 52:1, s. 57-94
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The article analyses the contexts, arguments and paradoxes of thinking about cultural heritage in Sweden of the 2000s when the topic achieved broad societal relevance in traditional media, internet fora, political communication and academic research. The discussion focuses on four themes: the normative criticism paradigm that has been increasingly influential in the heritage sector in recent years and the tensions and conflicts it provokes, recent heritage work on and with the until the last two decades silent ethnic minority Romani Travellers, the continuing media polemic around the Sweden Democrats and its heritage policies, and the heritage debate initiated by journalist and China expert Ola Wong in 2016. The analysis builds on projects and publications featuring heritage professionals, academics, NGO people and professionals with other kinds of cultural capital working in the heritage sector, as well as on illustrative debates and interviews in the mass media. The debates are often heavily polarized, interwoven with positions in other politically loaded issues such as globalization, migration and integration, and laden with questions of the legitimacy and authority of political and institutional actors.
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- Bernsand, Niklas, et al.
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Memories of ethnic diversity in local newspapers: the 600th anniversary of Chernivtsi
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Ingår i: Whose Memory? Which Future? Remembering Ethnic Cleansing and Lost Cultural Diversity in Eastern, Central and Southeastern Europe. - 9781785331220 - 9781789200690 - 9781785331237 ; 18, s. 110-142
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Memories of disrupted ethnic diversity in five Ukrainian newspapers from Chernivtsi, Bukovina, in connection with the city's 600th anniversary
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- Bernsand, Niklas
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Returning Chernivtsi to the cultural map of Europe : The Meridian Czernowitz International Poetry Festival
- 2018
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Ingår i: East European Politics and Societies (EEPS). - : SAGE Publications. - 1533-8371 .- 0888-3254. ; 33:1, s. 238-256
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Drawing on tropes, stories, and symbols emanating from lost layers of urban cultural diversity has been an important resource in post-socialist city branding in many cities in Eastern and Central Europe that saw significant ethno-demographic changes in connection with World War II. In Chernivtsi, this is usually framed by narratives emphasizing tolerance, cultural diversity, and Europeanness, notions that are prominent in myths about the city in German-speaking Central Europe. A common strategy here, found in municipal city branding and in commercial efforts to draw on the multiethnic past in restaurants and cafés, is to deemphasize difficult questions about what actually happened to the celebrated cultural diversity and soften or ignore the temporal break. The article analyses how the International Poetry Festival Meridian Czernowitz, that has taken place in Chernivtsi since 2010, works with the city’s culturally diverse past and its literary dimensions, drawing on tropes from both local multiculturalist narratives and on the Bukowina-Mythos popularised by intellectuals from German-speaking countries. Although the festival is not a venue for working through traumas, locating events in symbolically charged places such as the Jewish cemetery and highlighting Holocaust themes in poetry readings opens up for difficult questions where the lost cultural diversity might become something more than only a resource.
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- Bernsand, Niklas, et al.
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Transnational and Local Memories of World War I in Sweden : the Case of Bohuslän
- 2019
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Ingår i: Narrating Otherness in Poland and Sweden : European heritage as a Discourse of Inclusion and Exclusion - European heritage as a Discourse of Inclusion and Exclusion. - 9783631783924 ; , s. 245-273
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- After the WWI Battle of Jutland in 1916, hundreds of dead British and German marines drifted ashore on the beaches of the region of Bohuslän in western Sweden. They were buried in local cemeteries, until the remains of most of the soldiers were reburied in Gothenburg in the 1960s. The chapter focuses on two local Bohuslän memory cultures in relation to the sailors and their graves. It seeks to identify factors facilitating remembrance of the fallen Other in the two local communities, focusing on the importance of materiality for the perseverance of memory as well as on the role of transnational factors linking the graves to wider circles of memory. In this regard it also takes into account the shifting interpretations in German memory cultures of one of the dead marines, the writer Gorch Fock.
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