Urban History in Brazil - The Politics of Memory: Urban Cultural Heritage in Brazil. By Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos. London: Rowan & Littlefield, 2020. Pp. 200. $135.00 cloth; $43.99 e-book.

2021 ◽  
pp. 27-29
Author(s):  
Evan R. Ward
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Urban History ◽  
Politics Of Memory

scholarly journals Arkistot ja kulttuuriperintö

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Archival Studies ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Cultural Perceptions ◽  
Politics Of Memory ◽  
Scientific Debate ◽  
Archival Institution

Archives and the Cultural Heritage The edited volume Archives and the Cultural Heritage focuses on archives as institutions and to their tense relationship with archives as material. These dynamics are discussed in respect of the past, the present, and the future. The focus lies in the mechanisms the Finnish archive institutions have utilised when taking part in forming the cultural heritage and in debating the importance of the private archives in society. Within social sciences and history from the early 1990s onwards, the effects of globalisation have been seen as a new focal point for research. Momentarily, the archives saw the same paradigm shift as the focus of the archival studies proceeded from state to society. This brought forth the notion that the values of society are reflected in the acquisition of archival material. This archival turn draws attention to the archives as entities formed by cultural practices. The volume discusses cultural heritage within Finnish archives with diverse perspectives and from various time periods. The key concepts are cultural heritage and archives – both as institution and as material. Articles review the formation of archival collections spanning from the 19th to the 21st century and highlight that the archives have never been neutral or objective actors; rather, they have always been an active process of remembering and forgetting, a matter of inclusion and exclusion. The focus is on private archives and on the choices that guided the creation of the archives and the cultural perceptions and power structures associated with them. Although private archives have considerable social and research value, and although their material complements the picture of society provided by documentary data produced by public administrations, they have only risen to the theoretical discussions in the 21st century. The authors consider what has happened before the material ends up in the archive, what happens in the archive and what can be deduced from this. It shows how archival solutions manifest themselves, how they have influenced research and how they still affect it. One of the key questions is whose past has been preserved and whose is deemed worthy of preservation. Under what conditions have the permanently preserved documents been selected and how can they be accessed? In addition, the volume pays attention to whose documents have been ignored or forgotten, as well as to the networks and power of the individuals within the archival institution and to the politics of memory. The Archives and the Cultural Heritage is an opening to a discussion on the mechanisms, practices and goals of Finnish archival activities. It challenges archival organisations to reflect on their own operating models and to make visible their own conscious or unconscious choices. It raises awareness of the formation of the Finnish documentary cultural heritage, produces new information about private archives and participates in the scientific debate on the changing significance of archives in society. The volume is related to the Academy of Finland research project “Making and Interpreting National Pasts – Role of Finnish Archives as Networks of Power and Sites of Memory” (no 25257, 2011–2014/2019), University of Turku. Project partners Finnish Literature Society (SKS) and Society of Swedish Literature in Finland (SLS).

scholarly journals Institutional Dimension of the Preservation of the Historical and Cultural Heritage of the United Arab Emirates

2019 ◽  
pp. 194-208
Author(s):  
I. Mudriievska
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Politics Of Memory ◽  
Cultural Objects ◽  
Research Institution ◽  
Heritage Studies ◽  
National Archives ◽  
Patriotic Education ◽  
Institutional Dimension ◽  
World Cultural Heritage

There has been researched the institutional direction and its main forms of the preservation of the historical and cultural heritage in the UAE. There has been clarified the role of the National Archives,as an important archival and research institution which assists to implementation of the politics of memory and meaningful filling of the national idea. There have been reviewed main historica museums and cultural objects as important institutions. There has been analyzed activities of the Dhakira Center for Heritage studies in the UAE. The creation of the museum city block on SaadiyatIsland of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi as a center of the national and world cultural heritage, multicultural exchange within the global perception of the world has been studied. The state policy of the preservation of the traditional culture and its material components for strengthening of the national identity has been considered. In this context attention was paid to conducting of cultural andethnographic festivals, working with youth for the purpose of the patriotic education.

scholarly journals Looted Art in the Politics of Memory of the FRG

2018 ◽  
pp. 211-227
Author(s):  
V. Soloshenko
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Federal Republic ◽  
German Society ◽  
The State ◽  
Crimes Against Humanity ◽  
Federal Republic Of Germany ◽  
Extensive Experience ◽  
Politics Of Memory ◽  
Memory And Learning ◽  
New Treatment

Memory and learning tragic pages of history, such as genocide and crimes against humanity, are of great importance for the future of the state. This article deals with the problem of the looted art, itsplace in the politics of memory of the Federal Republic of Germany. The problems of protection, preservation, and repatriation of the cultural heritage looted by the Nazi before and during World WarII have received new treatment in the German society. It is pointed out that Germany has extensive experience of addressing the burdensome past, it has been established how the FRG solves the problem of its overcoming, its new facets and dimensions are revealed. The German experience of the last decades in the matter of search and restitution of lost and illegally transported works of art and its value for Ukraine is analyzed.

scholarly journals THE SIGNIFICANCE OF URBAN HISTORY FOR URBAN TOURISM RESEARCH AND PRACTICES: THE CASE OF BURSA

2015 ◽  
pp. 93-106
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Urban History ◽  
Business Leaders ◽  
Urban Tourism ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Tourism Research ◽  
City Tourism ◽  
The City

Heritage is the historical result of past interactions. Urban history reveals components of that heritage in the context of a city and helps us to perceive cultural values in their unique connections. Historians have several kinds of references that are used to study urban history. Travelbooks and yearbooks, two of those historical sources, are deliberately emphasised in this study. They introduce not only tangible and intangible cultural heritage of a city as possible tools for sustainability and diversity, but also are essential references in tourism research for particularly historical academic views. Cultural heritage of today together with those lost or almost forgotten can be interpreted through urban history sources within its own methodology but in favour of urban tourism. The outcome is incomparable data for related territory. Besides, it can generate possibilities to enhance not only cliché methods for urban management but also understandings of business leaders. This paper,therefore, underlines distinctive studies of Ottoman Urban History as interdisciplinary input within tourism literature and for possible contributions in improvement of city tourism practices.Urban history studies are considered along with theperception of cultural heritage. The city Bursa is used as a case study in order to exemplify aims of this paper in wider conceptions for urban tourism research and practices. Introduced and evaluatedtravelbooksand yearbooks are hence written about Bursa. Travelbooksare especially chosen from those written by European travellers within nineteenth century. As a result, evaluation also captures perceptions of travellers in mentioned period. Yearbooks of the same era, on the other hand, are also introduced within the concept of urban tourism and cultural heritage.

scholarly journals “THE CASE ON PROTECTION OF ANCIENT MONUMENTS IN THE PERM PROVINCE”, 1902: EXPERIENCE IN RECORDING AND STUDYING CULTURAL HERITAGE IN RUSSIA

2021 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-79
Author(s):  
Ludmila A. Dashkevich ◽  
◽  
Marina Yu. Nechaeva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Local History ◽  
Provincial Government ◽  
Cultural Value ◽  
The Urals ◽  
Politics Of Memory ◽  
Subsequent Time ◽  
Ancient Monuments ◽  
Religious Objects ◽  
First Time

The article is devoted to the analysis of data compiled in 1902 by the construction department of the Perm Provincial Committee on “all ancient buildings and ancient monuments existing in the Perm province, as well as on modern monuments erected in honor of the Imperial and other persons or in memory of various events”. The background of the compilation of this list is characterized in the context of the development of a law on the protection of monuments and public discussion of the criteria for identifying objects to be protected. The authors describe the province’s monuments associated with the Romanovs, for the first time included in the range of objects of protection (largely lost in the subsequent time). A comparison is made of the information on the region’s religious objects indicated in this source with the 1902 description of parish churches of Ekaterinburg diocese. The information limits of the 1902 provincial list are identified. They were caused by the method of obtaining information for the list: reliance on documents preserved in the office of the provincial government, lack of cooperation with diocesan structures during the preparation of the list, subjectivity of assessments of the cultural value of the objects and an insufficient level of studying ancient monuments in the local history literature of that time. At the same time, the importance of this event is emphasized as the first attempt in the region to systematize information about the objects to be protected as monuments of history and culture. The compilation of an inventory of protected monuments had been for the authorities a certain step in the politics of memory, since a significant part of the heritage indicated in the list was associated with the idea of a monarchy, and the Urals were presented as a part of the Orthodox empire mastered by the Russian people.

scholarly journals Valorising marginalised heritage: Heritage and memory politics in the work of professor doctor Milena Dragićević Šešić

Kultura ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 201-220
Author(s):  
Višnja Kisić ◽  
Irina Subotić
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Engaged Scholarship ◽  
National Politics ◽  
Political Transitions ◽  
Socialist Republic ◽  
Politics Of Memory ◽  
Memory Politics ◽  
Political Crises ◽  
Civil Society Organisations ◽  
Academic Activism

The paper is dedicated to the work and research of prof, dr Milena Dragićević Šešić in the field of cultural heritage and memory studies, The paper analyses the key questions, topics and problems dealt with in the work of Dragićević Šešić, contextualising them in relation to the broader socio-political transitions, as well as in relation to the international academic trends in the field of cultural heritage, cultural memory and cultures of resistance. The core research interest of Dragićević Šešić is linked with the critique of ethno-national politics of memory, marginalised and dissonant layers of heritage, heritage and memory of the marginalised groups within patriarchal nationalistic models of heritage, as well as to counter-cultural memorial practices of artistic collectives, lesser known artists and civil society organisations. By analysing the work of Dragićević Šešić in the field of cultural heritage it becomes obvious that the very core of her work is a particular kind of engaged scholarship and academic activism dedicated to non-authorised heritage discourses and memory politics, triggered on the one hand by the socio-political crises of the dissolution of the former Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia, and on the other hand by the engagement with contemporary socially relevant scholarship trends.

Chernivtsi’s Squares and Monuments in the Context of Distinctive Buko- vinian Identity, Cultural Heritages and Urban Historical Memory

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-77
Author(s):  
Valentyna Bohatyrets ◽  
Liubov Melnychuk
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Politics Of Memory ◽  
Central Eastern Europe ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
The City

Since the twentieth century, the interdisciplinary field of ‘memory studies’ has become especially topical and drawn upon a variety of theoretical perspectives, while offering a plethora of empirical case studies exploring the politics of memory and urban space, cultural heritage and cultural identity that mould a space’s distinctiveness. This study draws on a comparative analysis to theoretically prove and develop a multifaceted memory of Chernivtsi’s significantly transformed and enriched urban landscape through an interdisciplinary approach involving various methods and instruments for handling the essential societal resources of history, memory and identity. The city of Chernivtsi and the region of Bukovina, historically part of Central Eastern Europe and geo-strategically the heart of Europe, has recently strengthened its voice in becoming culturally and economically bound to the European Union. As a well-preserved city ruled, at different times, by the Habsburg Empire (1900-1918), Romania (1918-1939) and the USSR (1940/41-1991), Chernivtsi (Czernowitz, Cernăuţi, Chernovtsy) serves as a case study for exploring the human fingerprints of every epoch. The city’s architectural diversity offers testimony as to how Chernivtsi’s urban society preserved its unique landscape of identity, embodied in a patchwork of ethnic, linguistic and confessional affiliations, while integrating representational claims and moderating its space. This study analyses the policies and practices of these three epochs in Chernivtsi’s history, in terms of how the city attempted to promote, develop and preserve its cultural heritage, while preserving the collective memory and shaping supranational identity.

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