Politics of belonging in Brussels’ European Quarter
Tuuli Lähdesmäki
The European Union (EU) has been criticised for a lack of imageries and sites memory that nation-states have traditionally utilised in their identity-building. EU, along with other actors, responded to this iconographic deficit heritage initiatives branding campaigns. This article explores how is dealt the Quarter Brussels by enlivening it through cultural regeneration creating narratives link Europe’s EU’s past present. utilises hermeneutic phenomenological approach combining observation interpretation diverse place-making practices, such as monuments, memorials, public artworks, history plaques, naming administration buildings, close reading marketing promotional material. It examines feeling belonging Europe EU advanced sought be turned into collective place. indicates Quarter’s politics ignores various layers meanings related its invitation belong selective focus on male actors ignore colonial references today’s multi-ethnic reality neighbourhood.
International Journal of Heritage Studies|Jyväskylä University Digital Archive (University of Jyväskylä)