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<P>Diversity of Belonging in Europe </I>analyzes conflicting notions of identity and</P>
<P>belonging in contemporary Europe. Addressing the creation, negotiation, and (re)</P>
<P>use of diverse spaces and places of belonging, the book examines their fascinating</P>
<P>complexities in the context of a changing Europe.</P>
<P>Taking an innovative interdisciplinary approach, the volume examines</P>
<P>renegotiations of belonging played out through cultural encounters with difference</P>
<P>and change, in diverse public spaces and contested places. Highlighting the</P>
<P>interconnections between social change and culture, heritage, and memory, the</P>
<P>chapters analyze multilayered public spaces and the negotiations over culture and</P>
<P>belonging that are connected to them. Through analyses of diverse case studies, the</P>
<P>editors and authors draw out the significance of the participation or exclusion of</P>
<P>differing community, grassroots, and activist groups in such practices and discourses</P>
<P>of belonging in relation to the contemporary emergence of identity conflicts and</P>
<P>political uses of the past across Europe. They analyze the ways in which people's</P>
<P>sense of belonging is connected to cultural, heritage, and memory practices</P>
<P>undertaken in different public spaces, including museums, cultural and community</P>
<P>centres, city monuments and built heritage, neglected urban spaces, and online fora.</P><I>
<P>Diversity of Belonging in Europe </I>provides a valuable contribution to the</P>
<P>existing bodies of work on identities, migration, public space, memory, and</P>
<P>heritage. The book will be of interest to scholars and students with an interest in</P>
<P>contested belonging, public spaces, and the role of culture and heritage.</P>
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<P>Susannah Eckersley </B>is Senior Lecturer at Newcastle University, UK, an</P>
<P>Associated Research Fellow at the Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History</P>
<P>(ZZF) in Potsdam, Germany, and the Project Leader of <I>en/counter/points </I>- a</P>
<P>collaborative European research project on public spaces and belonging funded</P>
<P>by HERA. Her expertise is in memory, museums, difficult heritage, migration,</P>
<P>identities, and belonging.</P><B>
<P>Claske Vos </B>is an anthropologist and Assistant Professor in the Department of</P>
<P>European Studies at the Humanities Faculty of the University of Amsterdam, the</P>
<P>Netherlands. Her current work focuses on the intersection of EU funding, cultural</P>
<P>activism, and enlargement. Her expertise is in European cultural policy, cultural</P>
<P>heritage, Southeast Europe, and European identity formation.</P>