Cultural Politics and Cultural Heritage
The Node for Cultural Politics and Cultural Heritage at the Department of Arts and Cultural sciences offers seminars as well as other activities focusing on contemporary and historical phenomena concerning cultural heritage. Several academic disciplines are involved in research on cultural heritage and its societal and individual significance. Cultural heritage is a field of research that encompasses sundry forms of memory institutions, which are crucial to the dissemination of knowledge to the public. Many public cultural heritage institutions are also part of politically governed organizations. Hence a complex dynamic exists between cultural heritage, their institutions and cultural policy. The current political agenda always influences how cultural heritage is produced and communicated.
Some themes addressed by research within the node:
- The practices and processes of cultural heritage and cultural heritage institutions
- The significance and consequences of different cultural heritage practices in civil society
- Cultural heritage and appropriation
- The significance of cultural heritage and cultural policy in diplomacy and conflict
- The significance and consequences of cultural heritage in connection with migration
- The materiality and immateriality of cultural heritage
- Cultural heritage policy organisation in a global society
- The economic and cultural policy conditions of cultural heritage
The node's activities welcome researchers from our own department as well as other departments and universities. Collaboration with heritage institutions and other actors of significance to the node's themes is also central.