Landscapes of Difficult Heritage

Thisbook studies how people negotiatedifficult heritagewithin their everyday lives, focusing on memory, belonging, and identity. The starting point for the examination is that temporalitieslie at the core of understanding this negotiationand thatthe connection between temporalities and difficult heritage remains poorly understood and theorized in previous research. In order to fully explore the temporalities of difficult heritage, the bookinvestigates placesin which the incident of violence originated within different time periods.It examines one example of modern violence (Mostar in Bosnia and Herzegovina), one example of where the associated incident occurred during medieval times (the Gazimestan monument in Kosovo), and one example of prehistoric violence (Sandby borg in Sweden). The book presentsnew theoretical perspectivesandprovidessuggestions for developing sites of difficult heritage, and will thus be relevant for academic researchers, students, and heritage professionals.