Heritage from Below
Drežnica: Traces and Memories 1941-1945
Project Coordinator:
Dr Sanja Horvatinčić, Institute of Art History, Zagreb, Croatia
International heritage project focused on the region of Drežnica in Central Croatia and its recent past.
“Our interdisciplinary research team of art historians, archaeologists, historians, anthropologists, and architects is interested in the entanglements of memory, affect and politics afforded by the materiality of resistance: hospitals, printing houses, military camps, caves, collections, as well as post-war memorials and monuments. By engaging with these sites, we intend to mobilise Drežnica’s wartime practices of care and hospitality in critical discussions about the ongoing crisis of hospitality in the European Union. Memories of resistance, on the other hand, encourage us to challenge right-wing populism and historical revisionism in Croatia and beyond. By questioning hegemonic narratives about the past, Drežnica’s situated heritage practices are a source of inspiration for social change.”
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