Diversity of Belonging in Europe - Public Spaces, Contested Places, Cultural Encounters

Diversity of Belonging in Europe analyzes conflicting notions of identity and

belonging in contemporary Europe. Addressing the creation, negotiation, and (re)

use of diverse spaces and places of belonging, the book examines their fascinating

complexities in the context of a changing Europe.

Taking an innovative interdisciplinary approach, the volume examines

renegotiations of belonging played out through cultural encounters with difference

and change, in diverse public spaces and contested places. Highlighting the

interconnections between social change and culture, heritage, and memory, the

chapters analyze multilayered public spaces and the negotiations over culture and

belonging that are connected to them. Through analyses of diverse case studies, the

editors and authors draw out the significance of the participation or exclusion of

differing community, grassroots, and activist groups in such practices and di