Sigrid Kaasik-Krogerus
Biographic Data
| ID | 9303816 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sigrid Kaasik-Krogerus |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sigrid |
| FAMILY NAME | Kaasik-Krogerus |
| SIGNATURE | KAASIK-KROGERUS S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Dialogue in and as European heritage
In this article, we scrutinize the use and institutionalization of the concept of ‘dialogue’ in the cultural politics of the European Union. Our focus is on how dialogue is understood in the context of the European Union’s flagship heritage action, the European Heritage Label, that aims to strengthen citizens’ sense of belonging to the Union. Since heritage has gained increasing prominence in the European Union international relations, we also di…
Conclusions: Europe’s Lived Space
In this book we explored how the participants in EU cultural initiatives construct notions of Europe and the 'European' , what concrete meanings they give to them, and how they build their own relations to Europe. Hence, the focus was the construction of Europe and belonging to it from below. The analysis of our three cases, the European Capital of Culture (ECOC), the European Citizen Campus (ECC), and the European Heritage Label (EHL), clearly s…
Cross Analysis of the Case Studies
Our methodological innovation, ethnography of Europeanization, offers a multi-dimensional and intersectional approach to how people construct Europe and their notion of belonging to it at different social and cultural locations. We explore this in data sets from three EU cultural initiatives -the European Capital of Culture (ECOC), the European Citizen Campus (ECC), and the European Heritage Label (EHL). In our three case studies, various social …
Politics of Belonging: Concepts and Method
We focus on studying citizens' subjective sense of belonging as well as how their construction of belonging interacts with agendas to enhance it in and through EU cultural initiatives, which we consider as politics of belonging. We understand politics of belonging in EU cultural policy as constructing and conveying notions about Europe and the 'European' to a wider public through diverse discursive, narrative, and cultural resources, which help t…
Case 2: The European Citizen Campus
In this chapter, we focus on the implementation of the EU's cultural programmes and explore what kinds of conceptions of Europe are constructed in the framework of an individual EU project. The European Citizen Campus (ECC) received funding from the Culture programme between 2013 and 2015. EU projects are used as channels to engage participants in the Union's activities, and as such, they can be seen as core elements of the EU's politics of belon…
Case 1: The European Capital of Culture
The European Capital of Culture (ECOC) is the longest running EU cultural initiative with a strong emphasis on foregrounding common culture in Europe, promoting European cultural narratives, supporting the cooperation of European cultural actors, and activating Europeans to participate in cultural creation and reception. This action forms our first case study. As discussed in Chapter 3, the macro-level policy discourse of the action seeks to cons…
Case 3: The European Heritage Label
The EU's most recent flagship heritage action, the European Heritage Label (EHL), contributes to the politics of belonging in EU cultural policy by seeking to form 'a community of Europeans' with an emphasis on common values and a shared past in Europe. As the EHL was developed with the aim to strengthen "European citizens' belonging to the Union", heritage sites have been awarded the Label on grounds of their "European significance" and contribu…
EU Cultural Policy: Europe from Above
Focus on Two Agendas
Politics of Memory and Oblivion in the European Context: Critical Perspectives
Constructing communities through heritage participation
Several collectivities use cultural heritage in their attempts to construct communities and produce identity and a sense of belonging. Since both participation and community have become core concepts in heritage making, in this chapter we explore what kind of heritage communities are constructed through the notions of participation in the context of the European Heritage Label. We analyse community building and the meanings given to communities i…
Multilevel and participatory governance of European cultural heritage in the EU
In this chapter, we examine power dynamics in the governance of European cultural heritage in the European Union, with an empirical focus on the European Heritage Label. We discuss the complex power relations inherent in the European Heritage Label by examining how the decision- and policy-making, governance, interaction, and (hierarchical) positions of different actors are manifested and dealt with in our field research data. The chapter starts …
Heritage and bordering
EUropean borders play a prominent role in the framework of European heritage. For instance, the decision of the European Heritage Label action specifies that the candidate sites have to show their cross-border or pan-European nature that goes beyond the national borders. In this chapter, we approach the European Heritage Label as a geopolitical discourse where bordering is constituted by a mixture of drawing, erasing, and crossing borders on vari…
Europe’s gendered heritage
In this chapter, we expligore the representation of gender and gendered narratives, and the ways in which they are (re)produced at the European Heritage Label sites. This European Union action still focuses on the mediation of grand European narratives that prioritize a white, male perspective, but a stronger representation of women and their perspectives is necessary in order to constitute a more inclusive and diverse conception of Europe’s past…
Economics and branding European cultural heritage
The European Union funds diverse heritage conservation and promotion activities, but its core heritage initiatives, such as the European Heritage Label, are not funding instruments. However, the European Heritage Label is intertwined with the logic of economy in diverse ways. The focus of this chapter is the economic conditions of the European Heritage Label action and how these conditions impact its implementation and power dynamic between diffe…
Heritage sites as poly-space
Based on our fieldwork experiences, we have developed the concept of poly-space to describe the co-existence of multiple moments and the interplay of different, overlapping, and intersecting spatial, temporal, affective, sensory, and cognitive experiences at a heritage site. Poly-space is not necessarily a phenomenon solely connected with heritage sites, but we became aware of it while reflectively discussing and writing about our experiences and…
Bodies in European cultural heritage
Heritage sites play an important role in generating and transmitting heritage. Human bodies featuring in the exhibitions of the European Heritage Label sites can be understood as emotionally charged sticky objects in this process. While bodies as sticky objects evoke emotions in audiences, the emotive quality of an object can also create stickiness during and long after a heritage visit. The bodies of visitors can also be understood as resonating…
Participation
For a number of decades, participation in heritage processes and practices has been increasingly addressed at various levels in cultural heritage policies and research. It has been emphasized that citizens should have a say in decisions about constructing, defining, interpreting, and representing cultural heritage. In this chapter, we analyse the dynamics of participation in the framework of the European Heritage Label and the ways in which it pr…
Geo-graphing European cultural heritage
In this chapter, we analyse the European Heritage Label as a geopolitical discourse in which perceptions of both European heritage and European scale are formed in relation to other spatial scales. To scrutinize these scalar relations and related hierarchies we combine critical geopolitics and critical heritage studies. Based on the practitioner interviews, we form three interlinked subject positions - EHL participant, EHL observer, and EHL creat…
Conclusions
In the conclusions, we bring together central insights of the book. Focusing on the narrative production of EUropean heritage, we discuss the nature of heritage narratives and the relationship between their inherent normative ‘smoothing’ tendency and the need to bring more diverse voices into their definition. Building on this narrative approach, we summarize key findings from the four thematic parts of the book – multilevel and participatory gov…
Creating and Governing Cultural Heritage in the European Union: The European Heritage Label
Creating and Governing Cultural Heritage in the European Union: The European Heritage Label provides an interdisciplinary examination of the ways in which European cultural heritage is created, communicated, and governed via the European Heritage Label scheme.Drawing on ethnographic field research conducted across ten countries at sites that have been awarded with the European Heritage Label, the authors of the book approach heritage as an entang…
Europe from Below: Notions of Europe and the European among Participants in EU Cultural Initiatives
In this book, Tuuli Lähdesmäki, Katja Mäkinen, Viktorija L. A. Čeginskas, and Sigrid Kaasik-Krogerus scrutinize how people who participate in cultural initiatives funded and governed by the European Union understand the idea of Europe. The book focuses on three cultural initiatives: the European Capital of Culture, the European Heritage Label, and a European Citizen Campus project funded through the Creative Europe programme. These initiatives ar…
Dissonant Heritages and Memories in Contemporary Europe
This open access book discusses political, economic, social, and humanitarian challenges that influence both how people deal with their past and how they build their identities in contemporary Europe. Ongoing debates on migration, on local, national, inter- and transnational levels, prove that it is a divisive issue with regards to understanding European integration and identity. At the same time, the European Union increasingly invests in projec…
Ny identitet. EU-diskursen i den estniska dagstidningen Postimees
Creating and Governing Cultural Heritage in the European Union: The European Heritage Label
Creating and Governing Cultural Heritage in the European Union: The European Heritage Label provides an interdisciplinary examination of the ways in which European cultural heritage is created, communicated, and governed via the European Heritage Label scheme.Drawing on ethnographic field research conducted across ten countries at sites that have been awarded with the European Heritage Label, the authors of the book approach heritage as an entang…
Europe from Below: Notions of Europe and the European among Participants in EU Cultural Initiatives
In this book, Tuuli Lähdesmäki, Katja Mäkinen, Viktorija L. A. Čeginskas, and Sigrid Kaasik-Krogerus scrutinize how people who participate in cultural initiatives funded and governed by the European Union understand the idea of Europe. The book focuses on three cultural initiatives: the European Capital of Culture, the European Heritage Label, and a European Citizen Campus project funded through the Creative Europe programme. These initiatives ar…
Ny identitet. EU-diskursen i den estniska dagstidningen Postimees
Dissonant Heritages and Memories in Contemporary Europe
This open access book discusses political, economic, social, and humanitarian challenges that influence both how people deal with their past and how they build their identities in contemporary Europe. Ongoing debates on migration, on local, national, inter- and transnational levels, prove that it is a divisive issue with regards to understanding European integration and identity. At the same time, the European Union increasingly invests in projec…
Constructing communities through heritage participation
Several collectivities use cultural heritage in their attempts to construct communities and produce identity and a sense of belonging. Since both participation and community have become core concepts in heritage making, in this chapter we explore what kind of heritage communities are constructed through the notions of participation in the context of the European Heritage Label. We analyse community building and the meanings given to communities i…
Multilevel and participatory governance of European cultural heritage in the EU
In this chapter, we examine power dynamics in the governance of European cultural heritage in the European Union, with an empirical focus on the European Heritage Label. We discuss the complex power relations inherent in the European Heritage Label by examining how the decision- and policy-making, governance, interaction, and (hierarchical) positions of different actors are manifested and dealt with in our field research data. The chapter starts …
Heritage and bordering
EUropean borders play a prominent role in the framework of European heritage. For instance, the decision of the European Heritage Label action specifies that the candidate sites have to show their cross-border or pan-European nature that goes beyond the national borders. In this chapter, we approach the European Heritage Label as a geopolitical discourse where bordering is constituted by a mixture of drawing, erasing, and crossing borders on vari…
Europe’s gendered heritage
In this chapter, we expligore the representation of gender and gendered narratives, and the ways in which they are (re)produced at the European Heritage Label sites. This European Union action still focuses on the mediation of grand European narratives that prioritize a white, male perspective, but a stronger representation of women and their perspectives is necessary in order to constitute a more inclusive and diverse conception of Europe’s past…
Economics and branding European cultural heritage
The European Union funds diverse heritage conservation and promotion activities, but its core heritage initiatives, such as the European Heritage Label, are not funding instruments. However, the European Heritage Label is intertwined with the logic of economy in diverse ways. The focus of this chapter is the economic conditions of the European Heritage Label action and how these conditions impact its implementation and power dynamic between diffe…
Heritage sites as poly-space
Based on our fieldwork experiences, we have developed the concept of poly-space to describe the co-existence of multiple moments and the interplay of different, overlapping, and intersecting spatial, temporal, affective, sensory, and cognitive experiences at a heritage site. Poly-space is not necessarily a phenomenon solely connected with heritage sites, but we became aware of it while reflectively discussing and writing about our experiences and…
Bodies in European cultural heritage
Heritage sites play an important role in generating and transmitting heritage. Human bodies featuring in the exhibitions of the European Heritage Label sites can be understood as emotionally charged sticky objects in this process. While bodies as sticky objects evoke emotions in audiences, the emotive quality of an object can also create stickiness during and long after a heritage visit. The bodies of visitors can also be understood as resonating…
Participation
For a number of decades, participation in heritage processes and practices has been increasingly addressed at various levels in cultural heritage policies and research. It has been emphasized that citizens should have a say in decisions about constructing, defining, interpreting, and representing cultural heritage. In this chapter, we analyse the dynamics of participation in the framework of the European Heritage Label and the ways in which it pr…
Geo-graphing European cultural heritage
In this chapter, we analyse the European Heritage Label as a geopolitical discourse in which perceptions of both European heritage and European scale are formed in relation to other spatial scales. To scrutinize these scalar relations and related hierarchies we combine critical geopolitics and critical heritage studies. Based on the practitioner interviews, we form three interlinked subject positions - EHL participant, EHL observer, and EHL creat…
Conclusions
In the conclusions, we bring together central insights of the book. Focusing on the narrative production of EUropean heritage, we discuss the nature of heritage narratives and the relationship between their inherent normative ‘smoothing’ tendency and the need to bring more diverse voices into their definition. Building on this narrative approach, we summarize key findings from the four thematic parts of the book – multilevel and participatory gov…
Creating and Governing Cultural Heritage in the European Union: The European Heritage Label
Creating and Governing Cultural Heritage in the European Union: The European Heritage Label provides an interdisciplinary examination of the ways in which European cultural heritage is created, communicated, and governed via the European Heritage Label scheme.Drawing on ethnographic field research conducted across ten countries at sites that have been awarded with the European Heritage Label, the authors of the book approach heritage as an entang…
Europe from Below: Notions of Europe and the European among Participants in EU Cultural Initiatives
In this book, Tuuli Lähdesmäki, Katja Mäkinen, Viktorija L. A. Čeginskas, and Sigrid Kaasik-Krogerus scrutinize how people who participate in cultural initiatives funded and governed by the European Union understand the idea of Europe. The book focuses on three cultural initiatives: the European Capital of Culture, the European Heritage Label, and a European Citizen Campus project funded through the Creative Europe programme. These initiatives ar…
Conclusions: Europe’s Lived Space
In this book we explored how the participants in EU cultural initiatives construct notions of Europe and the 'European' , what concrete meanings they give to them, and how they build their own relations to Europe. Hence, the focus was the construction of Europe and belonging to it from below. The analysis of our three cases, the European Capital of Culture (ECOC), the European Citizen Campus (ECC), and the European Heritage Label (EHL), clearly s…
Cross Analysis of the Case Studies
Our methodological innovation, ethnography of Europeanization, offers a multi-dimensional and intersectional approach to how people construct Europe and their notion of belonging to it at different social and cultural locations. We explore this in data sets from three EU cultural initiatives -the European Capital of Culture (ECOC), the European Citizen Campus (ECC), and the European Heritage Label (EHL). In our three case studies, various social …
Politics of Belonging: Concepts and Method
We focus on studying citizens' subjective sense of belonging as well as how their construction of belonging interacts with agendas to enhance it in and through EU cultural initiatives, which we consider as politics of belonging. We understand politics of belonging in EU cultural policy as constructing and conveying notions about Europe and the 'European' to a wider public through diverse discursive, narrative, and cultural resources, which help t…
Case 2: The European Citizen Campus
In this chapter, we focus on the implementation of the EU's cultural programmes and explore what kinds of conceptions of Europe are constructed in the framework of an individual EU project. The European Citizen Campus (ECC) received funding from the Culture programme between 2013 and 2015. EU projects are used as channels to engage participants in the Union's activities, and as such, they can be seen as core elements of the EU's politics of belon…
Case 1: The European Capital of Culture
The European Capital of Culture (ECOC) is the longest running EU cultural initiative with a strong emphasis on foregrounding common culture in Europe, promoting European cultural narratives, supporting the cooperation of European cultural actors, and activating Europeans to participate in cultural creation and reception. This action forms our first case study. As discussed in Chapter 3, the macro-level policy discourse of the action seeks to cons…
Case 3: The European Heritage Label
The EU's most recent flagship heritage action, the European Heritage Label (EHL), contributes to the politics of belonging in EU cultural policy by seeking to form 'a community of Europeans' with an emphasis on common values and a shared past in Europe. As the EHL was developed with the aim to strengthen "European citizens' belonging to the Union", heritage sites have been awarded the Label on grounds of their "European significance" and contribu…
EU Cultural Policy: Europe from Above
Focus on Two Agendas
Politics of Memory and Oblivion in the European Context: Critical Perspectives
Dialogue in and as European heritage
In this article, we scrutinize the use and institutionalization of the concept of ‘dialogue’ in the cultural politics of the European Union. Our focus is on how dialogue is understood in the context of the European Union’s flagship heritage action, the European Heritage Label, that aims to strengthen citizens’ sense of belonging to the Union. Since heritage has gained increasing prominence in the European Union international relations, we also di…
Political science (13 works) · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation (9 works) · Geography (8 works) · Archaeological Research and Protection (6 works) · Cultural heritage (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (5 works) · History (5 works) · Politics (5 works)