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IDENTITY, DOMINANCE AND CONTESTATION: YOUNG PEOPLE’S ENGAGEMENT WITH HERITAGE AND CULTURE

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Kharat S.
Slovenský národopis (Slovak Ethnology)
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2021
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vol. 69
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issue 3
416 - 431
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The exclusionary identities plaguing our contemporary times have strong linkages with the heritage and culture of communities. Heritage is a construct that not only records the past but is also created for contemporary social and political needs. Based on ethnographic fieldwork at two publicly contested heritage sites in Maharashtra, India, this paper seeks to understand, young people’s interactions with heritage and culture. These two sites are an ancient Buddhist monument combined with a Hindu temple and a museum articulating elitist narratives of Maharashtra’s past. We found that young people’s heritage conceptions are deeply rooted in inter-connected political identities of belonging to a region and a nation; and regionally popular symbols such as Shivaji and hill forts play a significant role in shaping them. Our fieldwork shows that the heritage represented by some institutions reproduces the broader social dominations and injustice. Worryingly, some of these projections are accepted by young people as their own heritage. This normalizes the partial representation of heritage. Some young people, however, contest some of those dominant projections and hold diverse ideas on heritage. These conceptions provide fertile ground for young people’s political engagement with the idea of heritage and are a call for them to participate in the current contest over India’s past. Diversity and contestations are hallmarks of heritage and culture in India. In that context, the paper enriches our understandings of those discursive and power laden processes that shape the formation of heritage and culture among youth, not only in the global South but also across the world.
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POLITICKÝ VÝZNAM PÔSOBENIA MISIE KONŠTANTÍNA A METODA NA ÚZEMÍ SLOVENOV - DO ROKU 868

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Čáky M.
Studia Politica Slovaca: časopis pre politické vedy, najnovšie politické dejiny a medzinárodné vzťahy
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2012
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vol. 5
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issue 1
149 - 166
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The study examines the political context of the presence of the Thessalonian brothers Constantine and Methodius in our territory prior to 868. Although outwardly the purpose of their mission was christianization and education, its actual nature was political. The educational, cultural and spiritual aspects of Constantine and Methodius’s activity merely reflected the political bottom line. Their political efforts resulted not only in the creation of the first Slavic writing system and in the translations of parts of the Bible into Old Church Slavonic, but also in the establishment of the first nationwide Slavic educational institution and the first written language, literature and culture of the Slavs. The political role of the Thessalonian brothers strengthened the sovereignty of Great Moravia’s statehood and laid the foundations of the Cyril and Methodius tradition, which has been an integral part of the national history of the Slovaks and Slovak statehood.
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