Intersectionality and the Construction of Cultural Heritage Management

From an intersectional perspective, this article will identify, critically analyse and deepen the understanding of how the social categories gender, class, ethnicity and nationality are inscribed and interlinked in the official narratives performed by the public actors in the field of cultural heritage management. This article will analyse the contemporary discourse of the official institutional cultural heritage management actors, with special emphasis on Protection Orders made by the Directorate for Cultural Heritage in Norway. It is important to analyse this kind of material because it can bring new knowledge and raise the level of awareness of the construction of identities that are present at a structural national level of representation. This has the potential to increase the understanding of how the societal feeling of being Norwegian is created, which in a strange way seems to have striking similarities to the representations of national identities in other Western countries.