Heritage Preservation in East Central Europe: Practices, Resources, Communities
Does it make sense to talk specifically about heritage and socialism? We commonly assosiate socialism with future-oriented revolutionary projects, modernist planning, and the erasure of the past. But a closer look of reasearchers of this period shows that we can think differently. In this lecture we will discuss several contexts where socialism functioned not only as an ideological or imperial system that suppressed heritage, but also as a framework that actively facilitated the selection, canonization, preservation, and care of specific types of heritage.
Does it make sense to talk specifically about heritage and socialism? We commonly assosiate socialism with future-oriented revolutionary projects, modernist planning, and the erasure of the past. But a closer look of reasearchers of this period shows that we can think differently. In this lecture we will discuss several contexts where socialism functioned not only as an ideological or imperial system that suppressed heritage, but also as a framework that actively facilitated the selection, canonization, preservation, and care of specific types of heritage.
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