UNESCO

An essay series curated by UNESCO Chair Postdoctoral Fellow Annalisa Bolin, “Where Heritage Meets Violence“, has recently launched at Items: Insights from the Social Sciences, a publication of the Social Science Research Council (New York). Each week during February and March 2022, this series publishes an essay by scholars around the world focusing on how cultural heritage and violence intersect and what we can learn from the dynamics between heritage and different forms of violence, both past and present. The series opens with Bolin’s introduction, “Violent Encounters: Cultural Heritage and Contemporary Dynamics of Violence“, which examines contemporary discussions and recent research on the connection between cultural heritage and violence—physical, symbolic, and structural.