In times when con icts are becoming increasingly culturalized and fuelled by identity politics, this pioneering study is timely in connecting heritage studies and cultural policies with issues of di erence, con icts and reconciliation. Using the case of South East Europe as exploration ground for wider philosophical and practical questions related to heritage, it calls on us to rethink how we approach the past and deal with diversities – among cultures, nations, communities, classes, gender, and generations. Finally, Kisić o ers invaluable insights in the bene ts and aws of international development aid and transitional justice actions in post-con ict areas, making a strong case for the crucial role of culture and heritage in overcoming symbolic violence and creating understanding of ‘the other’.

Governing Heritage Dissonance is a valuable contribution to the continued development of ‘New Heritage’ thinking. Written, refreshingly, from a South East European perspective it gives a cogent rebuttal to the notion that heritage is cosy or comfortable, and instead deals with dissonance and plurality as aspects of all heritage, as intrinsic as they are unavoidable. Through her analysis of four examples of attempts in South East Europe to use heritage to re-forge consensus and unity, Kisić in e ect asks why heritage dissonance is feared – must we always try to smooth it away, can its tensions be used constructively?

在冲突日益文化化并由身份政治助长的时代，这项开创性的研究及时地将遗产研究和文化政策与差异、冲突和和解问题联系起来。它以东南欧为例，探讨了与遗产有关的更广泛的哲学和实践问题，呼吁我们重新思考如何对待过去，如何处理文化、民族、社区、阶级、性别和世代之间的多样性。最后，基西奇对国际发展援助和冲突后地区的过渡时期司法行动的益处和弊端提出了宝贵的见解，有力地证明了文化和遗产在克服象征性暴力和建立对 "他人 "的理解方面的关键作用。

治理遗产的不和谐是对 "新遗产 "思想持续发展的宝贵贡献。令人耳目一新的是，该书从东南欧的角度出发，有力地反驳了遗产是舒适的或安逸的概念，而是将不和谐和多元化作为所有遗产的一个方面来处理，它们是内在的，也是不可避免的。通过对东南欧利用遗产重新建立共识和团结的四个例子的分析，Kisić在文章中问道，为什么遗产的不和谐是令人恐惧的--我们必须总是试图抚平它，它的张力是否可以被建设性地利用？