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The Heritage Sector in a Multicultural Society: A Discussion from a Swedish Perspective

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Identity and Heritage

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The last 10 years have seen an increased awareness within heritage studies and the heritage sector concerning questions of community and identity, and heritage as a political issue within a multicultural society. This has of course influenced the way the sector addresses and works with these issues. In a recently conducted research study, I have analyzed how the Swedish heritage sector has worked with issues of heritage, identity, and heritage management in a multicultural, plural society over the last 10 years (2002–2012). Based on results from this study, I will discuss how the heritage sector understands, deals with, and works with heritage and plurality. How are the empirical and theoretical interpretations that heritage represents transformed into day-to-day work? How is cultural identity understood in relation to heritage and multiculturalism? How is this understanding manifested in management, stewardship, and administration? How is an understanding of the dynamics between the local, regional, national, and supranational demonstrated? By comparing results from the Swedish case study with global issues on heritage and identity, I will draw conclusions on issues concerning heritage politics, practices, and narratives that crystallize as urgent for the heritage sector and heritage studies to address.

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  1. Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden

    Anders Högberg

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  1. University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, New York, USA

    Peter F. Biehl

  2. Cultural Site Research and Management Inc.,, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

    Douglas C. Comer

  3. University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

    Christopher Prescott

  4. University of Washington School of Law, Seattle, Washington, USA

    Hilary A. Soderland

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Högberg, A. (2015). The Heritage Sector in a Multicultural Society: A Discussion from a Swedish Perspective. In: Biehl, P., Comer, D., Prescott, C., Soderland, H. (eds) Identity and Heritage. SpringerBriefs in Archaeology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09689-6_5

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