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This essay explores the concept of difficulty in relation to European heritage, the routine paradigms and affective-political modes that museums employ to engage with difficulty, and how these might be changed to accommodate a ‘more-than national’ geohistorical position in the present. It discusses some of the problems of difficult heritage that have been identified across European and national settings, and how this might fit within a paradigm of ‘crisis’ invoked by the EC. This is intended to ramify ‘difficulty’ as a paradigm and to locate it in practice: understanding when, where and how difficulty emerges and for whom, when it remains submerged, and why it becomes critical to civil politics. Museum displays that creatively address unusual difficult pasts in unconventional ways may support an ethical project of learning from the past to create better grounds for civil futures.
Author(s): Whitehead C
Publication type: Online Publication
Publication status: Published
Series Title: CoHERE Critical Archive
Year: 2017
Acceptance date: 20/02/2017
ISSN (electronic): 2399-1143
Publisher: European Commission
URL: http://digitalcultures.ncl.ac.uk/cohere/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/WP1-essay-1.pdf
