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A EUROPEAN CULTURAL IDENTITY? HERITAGE and SHARED HISTORIES IN THE EUROPEAN UNION

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  • BOUKE VAN GORP
  • HANS RENES

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Do the people in the European Union share a cultural identity? One important aspect of cultural identity is shared histories or common memories. Such histories can be presented by heritage. Heritage is those traces of the past a society chooses to preserve. Heritage is therefore also a way of defining oneself. To this day, the European Union has not yet compiled its own list of heritage. This paper analyses the World Heritage Sites of EU member states: sites that are considered to be of universal value. When taken together, what image of European history do these sites represent?

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  • Bouke Van Gorp & Hans Renes, 2007. "A EUROPEAN CULTURAL IDENTITY? HERITAGE and SHARED HISTORIES IN THE EUROPEAN UNION," Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, Royal Dutch Geographical Society KNAG, vol. 98(3), pages 407-415, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:tvecsg:v:98:y:2007:i:3:p:407-415
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9663.2007.00406.x
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    1. Pielesiak Iwona, 2015. "Managing ‘Ordinary Heritage’ In Poland: Łódź And Its Post-Industrial Legacy," European Spatial Research and Policy, Sciendo, vol. 22(2), pages 73-92, December.
    2. Qi Mu & Fabrizio Aimar, 2022. "How Are Historical Villages Changed? A Systematic Literature Review on European and Chinese Cultural Heritage Preservation Practices in Rural Areas," Land, MDPI, vol. 11(7), pages 1-20, June.

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