Overview

With a focus on Brexit, the Italian Election of 2018 and the US-Mexican border debate in the US, Heritage and Nationalism explores how people's perceptions and experiences of the ancient past shape political identities in the digital age.

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9781787358027

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"'a compelling, unique, and multifaceted analysis of contemporary dimensions connected to a long and complicated relationship between heritage and nationalism' Public Archaeology 'the work presented in this monograph will provide a strong foundation for future research focusing on social heritage.' Antiquity 'This pioneering book reports on a large, data-intensive project about modern life: how important, it asked, are notions of the past - represented here by Iron Age, Roman and early medieval Europe - in affecting decisions in contemporary politics and society? ...We are encouraged, and challenged, in the perhaps surprising if nonetheless significant discovery that ""experts"" do matter when it comes to determining public information and emphasis.' British Archaeology"

"'This pioneering book reports on a large, data-intensive project about modern life: how important, it asked, are notions of the past - represented here by Iron Age, Roman and early medieval Europe - in affecting decisions in contemporary politics and society? ...We are encouraged, and challenged, in the perhaps surprising if nonetheless significant discovery that ""experts"" do matter when it comes to determining public information and emphasis.' British Archaeology 'Chiara Bonacchi's book deserves a great welcome to heritage studies, nationalism studies and populism studies.' Memory Studies 'a compelling, unique, and multifaceted analysis of contemporary dimensions connected to a long and complicated relationship between heritage and nationalism' Public Archaeology 'the work presented in this monograph will provide a strong foundation for future research focusing on social heritage.' Antiquity"

Author Information

Chiara Bonacchi is Senior Lecturer in Heritage at the University of Stirling, where she has established the Heritage, Data, Politics Hub. Bonacchi has led projects in the UK and Europe examining how public perceptions and experiences of the deep past shape the ways in which people perceive themselves and others and relate to social and political issues today. In her work, she has pioneered new approaches that combine quantitative and qualitative methods of analysing ‘small’ as well as ‘big’ data.

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