Politički diskurs baštine u kontekstu memorijalizacije i/ili zaboravljanja baštine / Political Doscourse of Heritage in the Context of Heritage Memorialisation and/or Forgetting

Abstract

Starting from the assumption that heritage is a matter not only of the past, but of the present as well as of the future, while wanting to foreshadow the future of heritage and heritage studies, the paper follows continuous changes in heritage understanding and practicing, starting from the binary oppositions such as natural/cultural heritage, tangible/intangible heritage, official/unofficial heritage to the analog/digital heritage. What is even more important, the paper concernes complex, nowadays in a time of tensions, wars, migrations and refugees all the more important questions such as controversial heritage as a broader notion encompassing narrow terms such as „absent heritage“, „difficult heritage“, „dissonant heritage“ and so on. They all confirm heritage as a political discourse and the question of heritage memorialisation / forgetting and finally heritage future is put into direct context of current social conditions and so-called social value of heritage.