Borders of Belonging

Experiencing History, War and Nation at a Danish Heritage Site
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-85745-976-3
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 5, 212 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 468 g

Reihe: Museums and Collections

In 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. Comprised of an ethnography of two profoundly different institutions – a conventional museum and an experience-based heritage center – it analyses the ways in which staff and visitors interfere with, relate to, and literally “make sense” of the war heritage and its national connotations. Borders of Belonging offers a comparative, in-depth analysis of the practices and negotiations through which history is made and manifested at two houses devoted to the interpretation of one event: the decisive battle of the 1864 war in which Otto von Bismarck, on his way to uniting the new German Empire, led the Prussian army to victory over the Danish. Working through his empirical material to engage with and challenge established theoretical positions in the study of museums, modernity, and tourism, Mads Daugbjerg demonstrates that national belonging is still a key cultural concern, even as it asserts itself in novel, muted, and increasingly experiential ways.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Daugbjerg, Mads

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturpolitik, Kulturmanagement
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Museumskunde, Materielle Kultur, Erinnerungskultur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Daugbjerg, Mads
Mads Daugbjerg is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Aarhus University. His publications on heritage practices, cultural tourism, and the concept of experience include articles in the International Journal of Heritage Studies and in Museum and Society, as well as a co-edited special issue of History and Anthropology (with Thomas Fibiger) on “Globalized Heritage” (2011).