Gustav Wollentz - Landscapes of Difficult Heritage

This book series explores the relationship between cultural heritage and conflict. The key themes of the series are the heritage and memory of war and conflict, contested heritage, and competing memories. The series editors seek books that analyze the dynamics of the past from the perspective of tangible and intangible remnants, spaces, and traces as well as heritage appropriations and restitutions, significations, musealizations, and mediatizations in the present. Books in the series should address topics such as the politics of heritage and conflict, identity and trauma, mourning and reconciliation, nationalism and ethnicity, diaspora and intergenerational memories, painful heritage and terrorscapes, as well as the mediated reenactments of conflicted pasts.

Professor Ihab Saloul is founder and research co-director of the Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture (AHM) at University of Amsterdam and Professor of Memory Studies and Narrative at the Umberto Eco Centre at Bologna University. Salouls interests include cultural memory and identity politics, narrative theory and visual analysis, conflict and trauma, Diaspora and migration as well as contemporary cultural thought in the Middle East.

Professor Rob van der Laarse is professor of Conflict and War Heritage at and the University of Amsterdam and VU University Amsterdam, and he was the founding director of the Amsterdam School of Heritage, Memory and Material Culture. Van der Laarses research focuses on (early) modern European elite and intellectual cultures, cultural landscape, heritage and identity politics, and the cultural roots and postwar memory of the Holocaust and other forms of mass violence.

Dr. Britt Baillie is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Wits City Institute, University of the Witwatersrand and a founding member of the Centre for Urban Conflict Studies at the University of Cambridge. Baillies interests include the politics of cultural heritage, urban heritage, religious heritage, living heritage, heritage as commons, and contested heritage.

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There are so many people who have helped me out in the process of preparing this book that it is difficult to know where to begin. However, ultimately, nothing of this would have been possible if it had not been for the Graduate School Human Development in Landscapes (GSHDL) at Kiel University. The research was funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) through the GSHDL [Grant name GSC 208/2]. The GSHDL provided me with an excellent working environment full of friendly colleagues involved with their own fascinating projects. I want to start off by thanking Johannes Mller, Antonia Davidovic-Walther and Cornelius Holtorf. Johannes Mller supported and trusted me in this project throughout the whole process. Antonia Davidovic-Walther provided invaluable help for me when preparing the fieldwork. I am also very thankful for the engaging discussions and for her sharp comments on various drafts. Cornelius Holtorf served as a constant rock of support through loads of stimulating conversation and always being there to read and comment on drafts. Thank you, Cornelius, it meant the world to me.

Among my colleagues and friends at the GSHDL, particular thank you goes to Artur Ribeiro for proofreading and for stimulating discussions. I also have to thank my friend and colleague Gianpiero Di Maida, with whom I organized a small but successful workshop in September 2015. Thank you is also directed towards Milinda Hoo and Veronika Egetenmeyr and Christian Horn. In addition to that, among my colleagues and friends at the GSHDL I want to thank Natalia gez, Asli Oflaz, Marianne Talma, Clara Drummer, Marta Dal Corso, Marco Zanon and Stefanie Schaefer. Thank you for all the happy times and good memories!

In preparing and carrying out the field work, a special thank you has to be directed to Marko Barii for all the help provided as a translator during interviews and for his positive spirit and persistent belief in the effort of moving towards a better world. Furthermore, I received fantastic help from Damir Ugljen, Edona Rugova and Dea Luma during the fieldwork, in assisting as translators and advising me while preparing and carrying out the fieldwork. In Mostar, further thank you is directed to Riad ii, Vedrana Tuti imunovi, Tatjana Mievi-uri, Ivanka Milievi-Capek, Edita Vui, Nina uljak and Tino Tomas. In Kosovo, further thank you is directed to Milot Berisha, Boban Todorovi, Enver Rexha and Haxhi Methmetaj.

I also have to extend a big thank you to everyone involved in the Sandby borg project, and especially to Helena Victor for her guidance and help in the work I carried out. I was very happy to become part of the incredible Sandby borg team, and I look forward to continued work including more breath-taking discoveries. Therefore, a big thank you goes to the following amazing people: Ludvig Papmehl-Dufay, Clara Alfsdotter, Fredrik Gunnarsson, Sophie Vallulv, Nicholas Nilsson, Viktoria Sandberg and Daniel Lindskog.