Liminal Landscapes: Notes from a Walking Seminar in the Florence-Prateese Plain

Early May 2023. I’m with a group of researchers from the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and…

Selective heritage and the politicity of Libya’s history textbooks

Interested to learn more? You can listen to Essam’s lecture on the following link: https://dediscina.zrc-sazu.si/en/2024/09/guest-lecturer-essam-elkorghli Outside of The Libyan Center…

Heritage on the move

Reflections on heritagization of food among Afghan refugees in Albania and their “hosts” The article, published in Slovenian, examines how…

Counter-archive: Reflections on the (Im)possibility of Migrant Heritage

The following text is an attempt to reflect on the counter-archive[1] as an instrument of resistance and departure from structures…

Mediterranean Diet: between Health, Heritage, and Sustainability

Food and foodways are, as found out by many authors (see, for example, Brulotte and Di Giovine 2014; Ledinek Lozej…

Fish as heritage: The case of mullet and farmed sea bass in the northeastern Adriatic

Fish is not just a fish. It can also be a means of assessing how heritage, as a particular type…

Mohant, Trnič and Tolminc Cheese: a heritage of alpine cheese-making?

One wild man got drunk so they could tie him up. He asked them to let him go and to…

Dialect Terminology for Corn and Corn-related Tasks

The arrival of corn to the region Corn is a cereal crop introduced from the Americas to Europe (more specifically…

The Uncharted Territory of Linguistic Heritage

In November 2015, the inscription of the speeches along the Čabranka and Upper Kolpa rivers[1] appeared in the Register of…

Sečovlje salt pans: heritagisation of culture or nature?

Introduction The landscape of the Sečovlje salt pans was studied through literature, films, videos, volunteer work and in-depth visits. This…

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Heriscope is the online bulletin of the Heritage on the Margins multidisciplinary research group, which offers a view of heritage beyond the obvious, around corners and over obstacles. It brings reflections and materials about heritage and heritage-making, that is to say, the processes and practices of selecting and evaluating the past to calibrate the present and future. The focus of observation is on heritage formation and the performative influence of heritage on the margins – in minority, remote, linguistic, migrant, occupational and otherwise marginalized settings, and we are interested in the circumstances and conditions that encourage and enable something to be recognized as heritage. In addition to observing such heritage as is recognised by authorized heritage institutions, we also aim to enquire into heritage diglossia and the possibilities of undisciplined heritage. In doing so, the view is not directed at the question of what heritage is, but rather, at what heritage does. This kind of dissemination of heritage processes has no objective, only direction – the drawing of maps and highlighting the extent of labyrinthine heritage.

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