Europe’s Peat Fire: Intangible Heritage and the Crusades for Identity
Journal: Palgrave studies in cultural heritage and conflict
Year: 2019

Abstract Rob van der Laarse explores conflicts around the supposed ownness of intangible cultural heritage through examples from the recent (political) rediscovery of folklore in contemporary Europe. Recently, the promotion of, and identification with, national and regional folklore have been hijacked by European populist parties and movements. In their discourses, real and imaged folklore phenomena have been transformed into political means to foster territorial cultural identities and their “a