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Politics of Mobility and Stability in Authorizing European Heritage : Estonia’s Great Guild Hall (2019)

Kaasik-Krogerus, S. (2019). Politics of Mobility and Stability in Authorizing European Heritage : Estonia’s Great Guild Hall. In T. Lähdesmäki, L. Passerini, S. Kaasik-Krogerus, & I. van Huis (Eds.), Dissonant Heritages and Memories in Contemporary Europe (pp. 157-181). Palgrave Macmillan. Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11464-0_6

JYU authors or editors

Kaasik-Krogerus, Sigrid

Publication details

All authors or editors: Kaasik-Krogerus, Sigrid

Parent publication: Dissonant Heritages and Memories in Contemporary Europe

Parent publication editors: Lähdesmäki, Tuuli; Passerini, Luisa; Kaasik-Krogerus, Sigrid; van Huis, Iris

ISBN: 978-3-030-11463-3

eISBN: 978-3-030-11464-0

Journal or series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict

Publication year: 2019

Pages range: 157-181

Number of pages in the book: 294

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Place of Publication: Cham

Publication country: Switzerland

Publication language: English

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11464-0_6

Publication open access: Openly available

Publication channel open access: Open Access channel

Publication is parallel published (JYX): https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/65287

Abstract

Kaasik-Krogerus scrutinizes the European Heritage Label (EHL) as an authorized heritage discourse (AHD) in the making. She analyses how the discourse is formed in a politics of mobility and stability between the local, national, and European scales resulting from the interplay of europeanization (of the national and local) and domestication (of the European). The chapter asks how this politics of mobility and stability is conducted to manage the scalar dissonance in one of the sites, the Great Guild Hall in Tallinn, Estonia. Kaasik-Krogerus argues that the politics conducted in the exhibitions works in two controversial ways: legitimizing mobility and stability as natural and simultaneously challenging these as problematic. The analysis illuminates the dissonance between the national-scale intents and their consequences on the European scale concerning power relations, multiscalarity, and future imaginaries.

Keywords: cultural heritage; European identity; Europeanisation; mobility; stability (invariability); discourse; museums of cultural history