Kulturella arv och kollektiva minnen: Vem är i behov av vad?

Collective Memories: Who Needs What? Official efforts to preserve our cultural heritage have increased and diversified considerably during the past decades, including such activities as organizing regional and national preservation authorities. In the course of this process, civil inquiries and governmental plans have naturally generated questions and debates. However, along the way, the search for the decisive values for cultural heritage has got lost. What purpose does government preservation of cultural heritage serve? When we speak of threats to the coordination of society ́s heritage, what exactly do we mean? What dictates the official agenda of values for cultural preservation? And why is it a matter of national consideration and legislation?