Abstract
Politics are the elephant in the room of heritage and landscape studies. Since the nineteenth century, heritage management has been seen as a national task. The sha** of national identities has been a part of agendas for preservation. In wartime, destruction of heritage is often part of cruel efforts to weaken opponents. The World Heritage List shows the tension between global intentions and national aims. Landscape and heritage can be used to exclude groups, but at the same time, they also have the potential to be inclusive.
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The expression refers to some a problem or controversial issue that’s obviously present but which everyone ignores or avoids mentioning, usually because it’s politically or socially embarrassing. http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-ele2.htm [accessed 28 February 2021].
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In fact, Willemstad was originally listed for the Netherlands Antilles, but when this country was dissolved in 2010, Curaçao decided to become an independent nation within the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
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Renes, H. (2022). Concluding Remarks. In: Landscape, Heritage and National Identity in Modern Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09536-8_9
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