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Identity Work at Heritage Sites: A Stepping Stone to Intercultural Understanding and Peace?
- 1. Identity work at heritage sites: A stepping stone to intercultural understanding and peace? Nicole Deufel University College London Heritage and Healthy Societies Conference UMass Amherst,14.-16. May 2014
- 2. Case Studies
- 3. Identity statements • “This is where I come from, this is my heritage, this is to do with me involved with the nation.” • “It gives you a warm feeling, it’s part of my past.” • “What it means to be British.”
- 4. Identity statements • “This, here, is where our ancestors come from.” • “Without our history we are nothing.” • “…this is where I live, this is where I was born, this is where I grew up.”
- 5. Identity statements ‘It just makes you feel quite small in the whole chain of human events. It makes you feel important at the same time.’
- 6. Statements about others • “That’s important, where we come from, and that first of all, we all are human beings.” • “The poor were poor, the rich were rich, and the dogs bodies was the very poor people, and it didn’t matter from what country you came from.” • “I think history does, you know, sort of make you realise we’re not alone in the world, we’re not special, we’re all the same.”
- 7. Statements about visiting heritage abroad • ‘[Discos, shops] isn’t what that country is about. To me it’s going and visiting all these sites, seeing how people lived and then you start appreciating life itself.’ • ‘People need to travel, people need to see how other people live, and then they realise, you’re from Japan, but you know…’
- 8. Statements visiting heritage abroad ‘The ordinary people have got the same fears and worries, likes and dislikes, as any one else in the world. It’s only the politicians that make it awkward.’
- 10. Interpretation of the Romans
- 12. Romans and Germans re-enactment