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Neža Čebron Lipovec
Univerza na Primorskem, Slovenija
neza.cl@fhs.upr.si

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iscussing heritage and memory, togeth-
core concepts, and also of the role of liminalities,
ti ti Dover the last two decades in humanities, bordering practices, transnationalism and the
er or separately, has been a central topic
agonism. These broad themes set the framework
the social sciences and elsewhere. To the point for thematic issue 2023/II of the Studia Univer-
ta ta memory studies experienced a first boom about pared by colleagues from different fields (an-
that it has almost become a buzz word. While
sitatis Hereditati Scientific Journal.
The issue gathers together seven papers pre-
two decades ago (see Berliner 2005), interest in
heritage first experienced a boom in the 1980s
thropology, political sciences, geography, his-
di di (Lowenthal 1995; Harrison 2013). However, in tory, architectural history) who participated in
the last decade or so there has been an impressive
a bilateral project of the Proteus research pro-
global growth in interest, including from other
gramme named Pasts without history and dis-
disciplines such as the natural sciences (see Wie-
nberg 2021). Currently, different fields are ad- placed histories of people without traces, led by
leading scholars in the field of anthropology of
here here change and the Anthropocene. Likewise, the mass depopulations and repopulations, and the
dressing topical issues. In heritage studies, schol-
memory, Michèle Baussant and Katja Hrobat
arship is engaging in topics centred on climate
Virloget. The project dealt with the effects of
consequent radical socio-economic and politi-
field of memory studies has been expanding with
interstitial subjects. For example, environmen-
cal transformations. As the project leaders un-
tal history has developed concepts such as “slow
derscored, the intent was to shed light on “the
memory” (Wüstenberg 2023). At the same time,
an established and flourishing perspective in the
presence and absence of the other and, therefore,
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field of anthropology of memory deals with ab- crossed and parallel social constructions of the
the self” (Baussant 2021a). Since the existing
sence and silence (Trouillot 2015; Baussant 2002; displacement of population analyses were often
st
Baussant 2021b; Hrobat Virloget 2023). The lat- confined to epistemologies of single disciplines,
ter intersects with topical issues in the field of the Proteus project tried to grasp them together
critical heritage studies, namely that of affect through concepts such as landscape, lived space,
and emotion (Smith, Wetherell and Campbell home-making, history, objects, practices, and
2018), along with issues concerning the trajec- language, this way challenging binary nation-
tories of (mis)recognition in heritage discourses. al identities. A transversal concept that emerges
Meanwhile, a recent branch of critical heritage from the interstices of memory, places, and her-
studies is focusing on conceptualising the herit- itage is that of borders and borderlands, mobile,
age-border and border-straddling (Harvey 2023), liquid, imagined, or simply newly-made through
with a call for the reconceptualization of both bordering processes.
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