02369nas a2200253   4500000000100000000000100001000000100002008004100003653002200044653004000066653003000106653002100136653003300157653001300190653004200203100001800245700001700263245010500280856015600385300001000541490000700551520153700558022002002095       2022                            d10acultural heritage10aAuthorized Heritage Discourse (AHD)10aCritical heritage studies10aHeritage studies10aIntangible cultural heritage10amonument10aUnauthorized Heritage Discourse (UHD)1 aA.S. Kolesnik1 aA.V. Rusanov00aHeritage-As-Process: The Concept of Cultural Heritage in Contemporary Social Sciences and Humanities  uhttps://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85139851576&doi=10.17072%2f2219-3111-2022-3-58-69&partnerID=40&md5=1b8a2bb49cb10d90f3805cfad1f79d04  a58-690 v583 aLarge-scale transformations in social sciences and the Humanities in the 1960 and 1970s (such as the emergence of cultural studies, memory studies, postcolonial studies and gender studies, public history, etc.) influ-enced the formation of heritage studies in the 1980s. Within the framework of this field, the concept of heritage has been substantially revised: it began to cover the sphere of the ordinary and everyday; its temporal boundaries have changed, so the objects related to the recent past began to be considered as heritage; the idea of de-monopolization of state experts in determining heritage was proposed. In the 2000s, a separate area of critical heritage studies emerged within heritage studies. Its purpose was to study the discursive practices of defining and using heritage, used primarily by the state and international institutions (the so-called “authorized heritage dis-course”, AHD, proposed by a theorist Laurajane Smith); as well as the problematization of heritage as a process of constant rethinking and redefining of identities and cultural values, which involves different social groups, communities and agents. The paper examines the transformation of the understanding of heritage-as-an-object into heritage as a social action and heritage-as-process discussed in heritage studies and critical heritage studies in European countries. It presents an overview of the key stages of their development and subsequent changes, the main research issues and problems, as well as their current debates.  a22193111 (ISSN)