Tuuli Lähdesmäki

TL;DR: This article explored the dimensions of belonging as a scholarly concept and found that belonging is a key focus and a central concept of research in many areas of science and applied to the field of psychology.

TL;DR: The notion of a European cultural heritage in EU policy discourse is extremely abstract, referring to various ideas and values detached from physical locations or places as discussed by the authors. Nevertheless, the EU initiatives put the abstract policy discourse into practice and concretize its notions about a European heritage.

TL;DR: In this article, a discursive meaning-making process consisting of several political aims, the strategies for obtaining them, and the underlying ideologies on which the aims and the strategies are based upon are discussed.

TL;DR: In this article, a discourse characterizing various documents which are essential to the EU cultural policy, such as the Treaty of Lisbon, the European Agenda for Culture and the EU's decision on the European Capital of Culture program, is applied to the production of cultural events in European Capitals of Culture in practice.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on recent promotional videos of sites awarded with the European Heritage Label by the EU and analyze how affect contributes to the meaning-making of a European cultural heritage and how are the workings of affect used by the European Union to promote certain meanings of heritage and effect thereupon.