What is it about?
People growing up while moving to and living significantly in several countries use to develop a lack of sense of cultural belonging and attachments. This circumstance makes them to perceive cultural heritage differently. Traditionally cultural heritage is used by people to connect themselves to nation's culture, history and traditions. This is not the case for highly mobile people: they develop other visions of cultural heritage more related to the experience of being mobile.
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Why is it important?
My research shows that there are different ways to approach to the significance of cultural heritage depending on each's community collective memories. In the era of globalisation, I suggest that this significance is based on routes (mobility) rather than roots.
Perspectives
I hope that this article makes people approach to cultural heritage beyond traditional discourses of nationhood and ethnic affiliations. I aim also to understand cultural heritage as a source of communities's identity based in contemporary interests.
Laia Colomer
Linnaeus University
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This page is a summary of: Heritage on the move. Cross-cultural heritage as a response to globalisation, mobilities and multiple migrations, International Journal of Heritage Studies, July 2017, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/13527258.2017.1347890.
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