Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Memory and Identity. Monuments of Romanian Tangible Culture Inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List (a Short Presentation)
- Inventorisation and Recording of Sacral Art Objects in Lithuania in 1995–2005
- National lieux de mémoire and the European Heritage Label. Some Reflections on the Case of the Gdańsk Shipyard
- Porrajmos. Constructing Gypsy Holocaust Memory in the Recent Cinema
- The Vacuum and the Imagination of Space. The Cultural Role of the Żyznowski Publishing House
- Cultural Animation as the Art of Remembering. The Activities of the “Borderland of Arts, Cultures and Nations” Centre in Sejny
- ‘The Painted Village’ – Zalipie as an Expression of Ethnographic Tourism in the Powiśle Dąbrowskie Region of Poland
- 20th Century Theatrical Heritage: The Escape from Illusion
- Protection of Cultural Heritage. The Case of Krakow
- Managing an Artist's Legacy on the Example of Foundation for Support of Modjeska's Life and Art Research in Kraków
- Culinary Heritage as Used in the Present. Selected Elements of the Culinary Heritage Management in Contemporary Poland
National lieux de mémoire and the European Heritage Label. Some Reflections on the Case of the Gdańsk Shipyard
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 January 2018
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Memory and Identity. Monuments of Romanian Tangible Culture Inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List (a Short Presentation)
- Inventorisation and Recording of Sacral Art Objects in Lithuania in 1995–2005
- National lieux de mémoire and the European Heritage Label. Some Reflections on the Case of the Gdańsk Shipyard
- Porrajmos. Constructing Gypsy Holocaust Memory in the Recent Cinema
- The Vacuum and the Imagination of Space. The Cultural Role of the Żyznowski Publishing House
- Cultural Animation as the Art of Remembering. The Activities of the “Borderland of Arts, Cultures and Nations” Centre in Sejny
- ‘The Painted Village’ – Zalipie as an Expression of Ethnographic Tourism in the Powiśle Dąbrowskie Region of Poland
- 20th Century Theatrical Heritage: The Escape from Illusion
- Protection of Cultural Heritage. The Case of Krakow
- Managing an Artist's Legacy on the Example of Foundation for Support of Modjeska's Life and Art Research in Kraków
- Culinary Heritage as Used in the Present. Selected Elements of the Culinary Heritage Management in Contemporary Poland
Summary
Abstract: In the context of increasing interest in a common European heritage or European lieux de mémoire, this paper will propose reflections on Europeanization of national lieux de mémoire, exemplified by the intergovernmental and Union “European Heritage Label” initiative. Furthermore, the proposed reflection will examine the process of the institutional invention of European heritage in the context of a gradual expansion of the European Union and of a strong need to forge on the Old Continent a new representation of the past. The paper will refer as well to the concept of heritage, its political use and perspectives in which the concept of political myth/mythology is applicable.
The article will examine the process, actors and context in which the Gdańsk Shipyards were/are used in the supranational context. The additional objective of this paper will be to focus on the change of meaning that this national site underwent while leaving the pure national context and reaching the European level. In other words the paper will try to answer the question of the nature of European semiotization / Europeanization of this national lieu de mémoire.
Key words: European heritage, Europeanization, mythology, lieux de mémoire, Gdańsk Shipyard, European Heritage Label
Introduction
The fall of the Communist Bloc and the gradual expansion of the European Union has meant that a strong need has been felt on the Old Continent to forge a new representation of the past. On the one hand, this has to take into account the heterogeneous, multinational and cosmopolitan aspects of Europe, but also – on the other hand – must attempt to secure its common and irreducible element. Heritage plays an excellent role in this regard. By appealing to national history, memory and lieux de mémoire, heritage is becoming a new tool for describing a common, European past.
Initiatives connected to the utilisation of the notion of heritage at the level of the European Union show its potential for building/reinforcing the European supranational community. One may say that today, at the start of the 21st century, the history experienced by the nations of Central Europe in the 1980s and 1990s has undergone a re-enchantment of the past and lieux de mémoire, in that they now possess an interpretive accent a l'européenne. This fascinating process is taking place within the European frame of reference.
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- Faces of Identity and MemoryThe Cultural Heritage of Central and Eastern Europe (Managing and Case Studies), pp. 57 - 74Publisher: Jagiellonian University PressPrint publication year: 2015