This Forum contribution presents fragmented accounts of historical narratives collected while conducting ethnographic fieldwork among civil servants in and around the European Commission in Brussels, Belgium. It focuses on the roles that heritage-making practices play in articulating European identity and belonging within these institutional spaces. In the ongoing debates over ‘bridges’ and ‘walls’, Commission officials advocate building the former and tearing down the latter. The European heritage narratives they enact tell the story of a supranational community formed from the expansion of external borders and the elimination of internal ones. Through the transcendence of borders, both physical and cognitive, geographic distances and social differences are made increasingly irrelevant. Their efforts in this regard are nonetheless hindered by futurist temporalities that orient Europeanness in opposition to the past.

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在混乱的水域上架起桥梁

本论坛的贡献介绍了在比利时布鲁塞尔的欧盟委员会及其周边地区的公务员中进行人种学实地调查时收集的历史叙述的碎片化描述。它侧重于遗产创造实践在阐明欧洲身份和在这些机构空间内的归属感方面所起的作用。在关于“桥梁”和“墙壁”的持续辩论中，委员会官员主张建造前者并拆除后者。他们制定的欧洲遗产叙事讲述了一个由外部边界的扩张和内部边界的消除而形成的超国家社区的故事。通过超越边界，物理和认知、地理距离和社会差异变得越来越无关紧要。