Home and heritage out of place

The Disjunction of Exile

Bibliographic Data

ID5701331
AuthorsKristin Kuutma (University of Tartu, corresponding author), Aet Annist (0000-0003-1087-7044, University of Tartu)
Year2020
Volume26
Issue10
Pages942-954
Publication date2020-10-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal of Heritage Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1352-7258 • E-ISSN: 1470-3610
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13527258.2020.1714695
OpenAlexW3002094803
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited49

Cultural heritage and home are not natural givens but construed and bounded in spatial, temporal and emotional terms. This similarity suggests that diasporic movements that disrupt the spatial dimension need closer examination. This article examines how geopolitical shifts affect the connection between people and the source of heritage central to their identity, and what role ‘home’ obtains in that process. Drawing on three examples of being displaced or ‘away from home’, this contribution considers the function of home in the process of heritagisation by identifying three degrees of separation: spatial dislocation, temporal disconnection, and the emergence of moral disjuncture. Heritagisation is not a neutral process of creating an unproblematic relationship between people and their past and their native homeland but one that is based on and incites partiality. This study that is ethnographic in approach with focused historical contextualisation observes the significance of ’home within’ under the condition of displacement and loss, of heritage dislocation that is consequently an experience creating an imagined and charged new space

Aesthetics · Art · Dislocation · Ethnography · Geopolitics · Homeland · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Anthropology · Computer Science · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · History · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Socioeconomic Development in Asia

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