ABSTRACT

The political and economic crises of the recent decades as well as the new changes brought on by globalization and digitalization have contributed to exacerbate social inequalities and injustice and revealed different social realities in Europe. The EU increasingly deals with social issues in its cultural and heritage policy. In this article, we explore the construction of this social dimension and advance the concept of ‘social Europe’ by exploring its cultural aspect based on our analysis of a recent EU heritage action, the European Heritage Label. In this action, the narrations of the European past and the attempts to foster common cultural heritage in Europe function as building blocks to create Europe as an intertwined cultural and social entity and to socialize a new generation of European citizens. We scrutinize the European Heritage Label and its notion of heritage from two perspectives. First, we analyse how the selection reports of these heritage sites construct a notion of social Europe. Second, we examine how visitors to these sites construct social Europe in their qualitative interviews. Key elements in this construction are narratives related to various values, mobility, and diversity.

摘要

近几十年来的政治和经济危机以及全球化和数字化带来的新变化加剧了社会的不平等和不公正，揭示了欧洲不同的社会现实。欧盟越来越多地在其文化和遗产政策中处理社会问题。在本文中，我们基于对近期欧盟遗产行动“欧洲遗产标签”的分析，通过探索其文化方面来探索这一社会维度的构建并推进“社会欧洲”的概念。在这一行动中，对欧洲过去的叙述和在欧洲培育共同文化遗产的努力成为了构建欧洲作为一个相互交织的文化和社会实体并使新一代欧洲公民社会化的基石。我们从两个角度审视欧洲遗产标签及其遗产概念。首先，我们分析这些遗产地的选择报告如何构建社会欧洲的概念。其次，我们研究了这些网站的访问者如何在他们的定性访谈中构建社会欧洲。这种结构的关键要素是与各种价值观、流动性和多样性相关的叙述。