The book studies how multiple representations of the Other are constructed, Europeanized and used in Poland and Sweden in various heritage related contexts (museums, cities, war cemeteries, commemoration sites etc.) in the second decade of the 21st century. In a more general sense, the authors raise the question of how otherness (in terms of culture, ethnicity, class, gender, etc.) is constructed and leads to its social inclusion, domestication, marginalization or – increasingly common in Scandinavian and Central European peripheries – exclusion.

Krzysztof Kowalski works and teaches in the Department of European Heritage of the Institute of European Studies at the Jagiellonian University. His academic interests focus on the theory of heritage and the anthropology of Europe. ?ucja Piekarska-Duraj is a social anthropologist affiliated with the Institute of European Studies at the Jagiellonian University. She works mainly in the field of museum and memory studies and is also an interpretive heritage trainer. Barbara Törnquist-Plewa is a professor of Eastern and Central European Studies at Lund University in Sweden. Her main research interests are nationalism, identity, cultural memories and cultural heritage. She has also published on Polish-Swedish cultural relations.