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Title Engaging heritage, engaging communities / edited by Bryony Onciul, Michelle L. Stefano and Stephanie Hawke
Published Woodbridge, Suffolk : Boydell Press, 2017
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Description 1 online resource (viii, 246 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Series Heritage matters
Heritage matters series.
Contents The Gate in the Wall: Beyond Happiness-making in Museums / Bernadette Lynch -- Assembling Communities: Curatorial Practices, Material Cultures and Meanings / Philipp Schorch -- Interview -- John Tunbridge -- Interview -- Gregory Ashworth -- Engaging with Maori and Archaeologists: Heritage Theory and Practice in Aotearoa New Zealand / Elizabeth Pishief -- Horizontality: Tactical Politics for Participation and Museums / Helen Graham -- Re-imagining Egypt: Artefacts, Contemporary Art and Community Engagement in the Museum / Gemma Tully -- Interview -- Evita Bua -- Interview -- Shatha Abu Khafajah -- Engaging Communities of De-industrialisation: the Mapping Baybrook and Mill Stories Projects of Baltimore, USA / Michelle L. Stefano and Nicole King --Interview -- Ashley Minner -- Embattled Legacies: Challenges in Community Engagement at Historic Battlefields in the UK / Justin Sikora -- At the Community Level: Intangible Cultural Heritage as Naturally-occurring Ecomuseums / Michelle L. Stefano -- Subaltern Sport Heritage / Gregory Ramshaw -- Museums and the Symbolic Capital of Social Media Space / Julian Hartley -- Relational Systems and Ancient Futures: Co-creating a Digital Contact Network in Theory and Practice / Billie Lythberg, Carl Hogsden and Wayne Ngata -- Interview -- Conal McCarthy
Summary Across the global networks of heritage sites, museums, and galleries, the importance of communities to the interpretation and conservation of heritage is increasingly being recognised. Yet the very term "meaningful community engagement" betrays a myriad of contrary approaches and understandings. Who is a community? How can they engage with heritage and why would they want to? How do communities and heritage professionals perceive one another? What does it mean to "engage"? These questions unsettle the very foundations of community engagement and indicate a need to unpick this important but complex trend. This book critically explores the latest debates and practices surrounding community collaboration. By examining the different ways in which communities participate in heritage projects, the book questions the benefits, costs and limitations of community engagement. Whether communities are engaging through innovative initiatives or in response to economic, political or social factors, there is a need to understand how such engagements are conceptualised, facilitated and experienced by both the organisations and the communities involved
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record
Subject Museums -- Management
Museums and community.
Historic sites -- Management
Community archaeology.
Cultural property.
Cultural property -- Protection.
public archaeology.
museum administration.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology.
Community archaeology
Cultural property
Cultural property -- Protection
Historic sites -- Management
Museums and community
Museums -- Management
Form Electronic book
Author Onciul, Bryony, editor.
Stefano, Michelle L., editor.
Hawke, Stephanie Kate, editor.
ISBN 9781782049128
1782049126