Dissonant Heritage: Concepts, Critiques, Cases

Authors

Patrizia Battilani (ed)
University of Bologna, Italy
Maria Giovanna Belcastro (ed)
University of Bologna, Italy
Krzysztof Kowalski (ed)
Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland
Teresa Nicolosi (ed)
University of Bologna, Italy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.60923/uech2024-1

Keywords:

Dissonant Heritage, Museum, Arts, Sustainability

Synopsis

This volume is the outcome of the Una Europa PhD Workshop “Dissonant Heritage: Concepts, Critiques, Cases,” which took place simultaneously at the Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna and at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków in November 2021. The book explores dissonant heritage in relation to three primary cross-cutting themes: (1) unveiling the dissonance of scientific museums and collections, (2) designing the social sustainability of dissonant heritage, and (3) examining the role of art in addressing dissonance. As evidenced by the essays gathered in this book, eradicating dissonance from our pasts and presents can prove to be an insurmountable task. We can remove statues, abandon buildings, forget paintings, but the painful past will endure. Consequently, dissonant heritage necessitates interpretation that acknowledges the negative emotions experienced by those who lived the dissonance. At the same time, we must remember that narratives of dissonant heritage can be politically manipulated and may fuel revisionist, negationist tendencies. In order to mitigate these risks, interpretation must both expose the propaganda hidden within certain forms of dissonant heritage and uncover the ways in which art can be (ab)used in order to create illusory consensus or even to bolster anti-democratic, supremacist ideologies. In essence, dissonant heritage offers an invaluable opportunity for modern societies to reflect on their values and on their strategies to promote and defend them in a changing and globalized world.

Chapters

  • Preface
    Maria Gravari-Barbas
  • Introduction
    Patrizia Battilani, Maria Giovanna Belcastro, Krzysztof Kowalski, Teresa Nicolosi, Patrick Leech, Łucja Piekarska-Duraj, Magdalena Banaszkiewicz, Natalia Bahlawan, Joanna Ślaga, Francesco Mazzucchelli
  • Cast Out of Context: Unveiling Dissonance in Scientific Collections
    Nina Jinks
  • Unveiling the Dissonance in the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum as a Form of Resisting Mnemonic Populism
    Marlena Nikody
  • Shifting Paradigms for Human Hair: Anthropology at Display
    Annalisa Pietrobelli
  • Sustainable Discomfort
    Edda Willamowski, Mónica Lindsay-Pérez
  • The Treatment of Dissonant Memories by Truth and Reconciliation Commissions: Four Case Studies
    María Paula O’Donohoe Villota, Loanh Mirande, Martial Manet, Joshua Davis
  • (En)Countering Dissonance: The Semiotics of the Living Memorial Counter-Monument in Budapest
    Rita Hornok
  • Memorial Landscapes, Polemic Celebrations, and Protest Aesthetics: Visual Expressions of Dissonant Heritage
    Marike Lefevre, Olmo Masa, Ksenia Medvedeva
  • Object and Memory: The Metamorphosis of Auratic Value in Liquid Modernity
    Julia Sara Martínez de la Fuente
  • Approaching Dissonant Heritage in Third-Generation Graphic Narratives: The Case of Jérémie Dres’s Nous n’irons pas voir Auschwitz
    Claudia Cerulo
  • Translating the Holocaust: Coping with Dissonance between Politics, Ethics, and Memory
    Enrico Maria Faltoni
  • Historiography of Hispanic American Colonial Music: A Dissonant Heritage through the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries?
    Álvaro Mota Medina
  • Beyond Being: Dissident(ificatory) Responses towards a Heritage of Becoming
    Ángela Harris-Sánchez
  • Arts and Dissonance in Post-Francoist Spain: Poetry, Historical (Post)memory, and Consensus in the Almudena Cemetery of Madrid
    Carlos González Ruiz
  • “Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition”: Constant Disruption and Disturbing Continuities when Considering Heritage
    Francis Mickus
  • Conclusions
    Patrizia Battilani, Maria Giovanna Belcastro, Krzysztof Kowalski, Teresa Nicolosi
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Published

April 18, 2024

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Una Europa Cultural Heritage Series
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9788854971431

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Battilani, Patrizia, Maria Giovanna Belcastro, Krzysztof Kowalski, and Teresa Nicolosi, eds. 2024. Dissonant Heritage: Concepts, Critiques, Cases. Vol. Volume 1. Una Europa Cultural Heritage Series. Bologna: Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna. https://doi.org/10.60923/uech2024-1.