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"This book applies heritage studies to the present and the future of Europe. Cultural and natural heritage are central to ideas of what Europe and ""the European project'"" are. Heritage studies were prevalent in the emergence of nation-states in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, where they were used to justify differences over which border conflicts were fought. Later, the idea of a ""common European heritage"" provided a rationale for the development of the European Union. Now, the emergence of ""new"" populist nationalisms shows how the imagined past continues to play a role in cultural and social governance, while a series of interlinked social and ecological crises are changing the ways that heritage operates, with new discourses and ontologies emerging to reconfigure heritage for the circumstances of the present and the uncertainties of the future."

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Rodney Harrison is Professor of Heritage Studies at the UCL Institute of Archaeology. He is author of many some of which have been translated into Chinese, Italian, Polish and Portuguese language versions. His research has been funded by AHRC, UKRI/Global Challenges Research Fund, British Academy, Wenner-Gren Foundation, Australian Research Council, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies and the European Commission. He has conducted archaeological, anthropological and/or archival research in Australia, Southeast Asia, North America, South America, the Middle East, UK and continental Europe. Nélia Dias is Associate Professor at the University Institute of Lisbon, Centre for Research in Anthropology. She works in the fields of heritage, museum studies, the history of anthropology and of human sciences from the early 19th century to the present. Her research has been supported by the Fondation de la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Center for French History and Culture, Australian Research Council and the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia. Kristian Kristiansen is Professor of Archaeology at University of Gothenburg, and affiliated professor at Copenhagen University. His research spans from the prehistory of western Eurasia to critical heritage. He was one of the initiators of the European Association of Archaeologists, and is now working mainly within the new interdisciplinary field of archaeogenetic research, and its implications for both prehistory and the present. He has published 25 books, as author, co-author and editor/co-editor, six of which are on Cambridge University Press, and more than 150 peer reviewed papers.

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