[Book review]: Heritage and Borders edited by Anna Källén, Stockholm, Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien (KVHAA), 2019, 176 pp., 220 kr

Heritage and Borders introduces readers to a series of valuable case studies and attempts to draw broader conclusions on the topic but has necessary limitations due to the scope of the case studies. In his literature review of borders and heritage Balogh identifies the emergence of disciplinary crosscurrents from the 1990s. An understanding of heritage as (tangible) property and (intangible) a form of ethic or cultural belonging often tied to territory, is the underpinning challenge to contemporary institutions and repositories that manage heritage. For example, he touches on the Northern Cyprus's exclusion from nominating World Heritage sites because of its status as a disputed territory, and the simplification of Scandinavian history through the case of Scania and its potential to relay a more hybridised understanding of Swedish and Danish identity. While Balogh engages in an interesting critique of what world or global heritage might be, the discussion could be extended into the particular forms of mobility that present the most urgent challenges to heritage. The securitisation of borders and the resistance to refugees, especially in the Global North, risks destroying some of the most important vehicles of heritage we have: people. From intangible heritage, to examples of craft, and language, there is no doubt that the volume of migrants and refugees in the future will increase with the environmental crisis. The issue of heritage and borders is here to stay.