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Cambridge University Press eBooks, Jun 9, 2022

Studies ČEGINSKAS, VIKTORIJA L.A.: Multicultural Belonging. Individuals across cultures, language... more Studies ČEGINSKAS, VIKTORIJA L.A.: Multicultural Belonging. Individuals across cultures, languages and places Article-based Doctoral Dissertation, 149 pages, 12 appendix pages, 4 articles (78 pages) Juno Doctoral Programme January 2016 The article-based doctoral dissertation deals with adult individuals in Western societies who were born into multilingual and multicultural families and have parents of different nationalities. The study's participants grew up outside their parents' countries of origin and relate to a multitude of bonds that link them across various cultures, languages and places. The study explores the social dimension of cultural belonging and examines diverse approaches that enable the participants to create notions of belonging and identification despite possessing at times contradictory transnational allegiances. The works offers new perspectives on transnational belonging and makes a timely contribution to discussions in the fields of cultural heritage studies, ethnology and transnational studies. The dissertation combines qualitative research methods with an insider perspective. The empirical material is based on semi-structured interviews with fifteen participants, among which are also the author's siblings. The study addresses the relevance of the author's personal situatedness and her multi-faceted roles as well as ethical concerns related to the methodological approach of insider research. The social dimension of cultural identities affect both the participants' identification with their multiple attachments and language use in everyday life. The key research findings present interrelated discussions of the participants' notion of being a mixture, the importance of family bonds and multilingualism, a specific mixed family lifestyle, the notion of non-belonging and the study participants' sense of otherness as a means of creating communality with others. The study discusses the participants' various life strategies of flexible relativising, juggling with multiple affiliations, the approach of "blending in" and their sense of ironic nation-ness for constructing a coherent sense of belonging. The author argues that multicultural belonging is inextricably connected to an association with multiple languages, cultures and places. Multicultural belonging is relational and depends on the context, social relationships and locations. The study proposes that multicultural belonging creates a tolerant understanding of membership and enables experiences of cosmopolitanism and selected notions of allegiance.

Routledge eBooks, Jul 3, 2023

This is an open access title distributed under the terms of the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license, which pe... more This is an open access title distributed under the terms of the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license, which permits any non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided no alterations are made and the original author(s) and source are credited. Further information and the complete license text can be found at https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ The terms of the CC license apply only to the original material. The use of material from other sources (indicated by a reference) such as diagrams, illustrations, photos and text samples may require further permission from the respective copyright holder.

International Journal of Cultural Policy

Journal of European Studies

In this article, we scrutinize the use and institutionalization of the concept of ‘dialogue’ in t... more In this article, we scrutinize the use and institutionalization of the concept of ‘dialogue’ in the cultural politics of the European Union. Our focus is on how dialogue is understood in the context of the European Union’s flagship heritage action, the European Heritage Label, that aims to strengthen citizens’ sense of belonging to the Union. Since heritage has gained increasing prominence in the European Union international relations, we also discuss how ‘dialogue’ is institutionalized in the European Heritage Label as part of the European Union’s heritage diplomacy. We approach dialogue in the context of the European Heritage Label as a floating signifier; an ideal seldom explicitly defined and never fully achieved but actively used to organize society and power relations. The empirical data consist of official European Heritage Label reports and interviews conducted with European Union officials and members of the European Heritage Label panel in charge of the selection and award...

Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites, 2018

Ethnologia Fennica, Nov 10, 2021

Europe from Below, 2021

This is an open access chapter distributed under the terms of the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. chapte... more This is an open access chapter distributed under the terms of the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. chapter 4 Case 1: The European Capital of Culture 1 From the Policy Discourse to the Implementation and Reception The European Capital of Culture (ECOC) is the longest running EU cultural initiative with a strong emphasis on foregrounding common culture in Europe, promoting European cultural narratives, supporting the cooperation of European cultural actors, and activating Europeans to participate in cultural creation and reception. This action forms our first case study. As discussed in Chapter 3, the macro-level policy discourse of the action seeks to construct Europe as a cultural entity and thus advance cultural Europeanization. The EU's interest in strengthening the discourse of the 'European dimension' in the ECOC action responds to the European Commission's view that this dimension was lacking in both ECOC applications and the cultural programmes of designated cities. This view was based on various ex-post evaluations of the action that noted how the European dimension has often been only modestly dealt with in the ECOC applications and cultural programmes (see Chapter 3). Indeed, the European dimension may be challenging to measure and therefore to perceive in the ECOC applications and programmes because Europe and the 'European' can be understood and manifested in various ways. In this chapter, we first briefly outline how the 'European' was discussed and framed in the applications, commonly referred to as bid books, of three case ECOCs-Pécs2010 in Hungary, Tallinn2011 in Estonia, and Turku2011 in Finland-and how the European Commission's ex-post evaluations of them considered their European dimension. After this, these macro-and meso-level discussions are broadened by discussing field research observations from these cities. The observations offer first-hand information about how the 'European' was manifested in ECOC events themselves, in their marketing and information signs in the cities, and in diverse cultural regeneration practices in their urban space. We then analyze the results of a questionnaire study conducted with audiences in these ECOCs, focusing on how the respondents understood the 'European' in the context of the ECOC events. We conclude that for the three cities, the European dimension was indeed included in their ECOC bid books, the implementation of their ECOC year, and their audiences' perception of the events organized during it. While their understandings of the ' European' vary greatly in both form and content, some elements of understanding the 'European' recur in our data.

International Journal of Heritage Studies

Creating and Governing Cultural Heritage in the European Union

Creating and Governing Cultural Heritage in the European Union, 2020