First of all, we would like to extend our heartfelt gratitude to all contributors to this edition. We would also like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their constructive feedback.
We are, moreover, very grateful for the financial support of the Centre for Critical Heritage Studies (cchs) at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
For their careful proofreading, we would like to offer a special thanks to our research students Mona Rosenberg, Alexander Kurunczi and Vivien Sper of the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, Felix Behler, Yvonne Jende and Timothy Kroupa of Paderborn University, Germany and Celine Gassner of Innsbruck University.