Description
Book SynopsisIn an era cross-cut with various agendas and expressions of national belonging and global awareness, "the nation" as a collective reference point and experienced entity stands at the center of complex identity struggles. This book explores how such struggles unfold in practice at a highly symbolic battlefield site in the Danish/German borderland.
Trade Review “[This] carefully researched and thoughtful piece of work makes a significant contribution to our understanding of concrete social practices that render heritage sites meaningful…[It] dissects, via an impressive empirical study rich in practical and theoretical implications, the complexity of heritage as processes of negotiation and contestation.” · Philipp Schorch, Deakin University
“[This book] is a contribution to a now fairly large literature, from an ethnographically grounded perspective, on history museums and heritage sites [but]…far better than average for this literature which can rely too much on rehashing the debates and too little on the data at hand. I found it especially impressive in its textual balance…Indeed, I could easily imagine this book being used as a perfect text in courses devoted to the heritage and museum studies, especially at the undergraduate level.” · Eric Gable, University of Mary Washington
Table of Contents List of figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Borders of Belonging: Investigating Landscapes of Danishness Today
Chapter 1. Dybbøl and the Danish Nation: History and Context
Chapter 2. Out of sight: Reconsidering the High Modern Museum
Chapter 3. The Banalities of Being Danish: National Identity at the Castle Museum
Chapter 4. Sensing 1864 at the Battlefield Centre
Chapter 5. The Fate of the Nation at the Battlefield Centre
Chapter 6. Danish Heritage Today: Cosmopolitan Nationalism and the Reappearance of the Romantic
Conclusion: Paradoxes of modern belonging: Reassembling Heritage, Nation and Experience
Bibliography
Index
