Engaging heritage, engaging communities

Engaging heritage, engaging communities

by Hawke, Stephanie Kate Onciul, Bryony Stefano, Michelle L.

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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 unset…

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  • Full title :Engaging heritage, engaging communities / edited by Bryony Onciul, Michelle L. Stefano and Stephanie Hawke.

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.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2017

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):The Boydell Press
  • Place of Publication:Woodbridge, Suffolk
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:©2017

Notes

"The International Centre for Cultural & Heritage Studies, Newcastle University"--Cover.

The Physical Object

  • Description:viii, 246 pages : : illustrations ; : 25 cm.

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781783271658, 1783271655
  • oclc:ocn950637682
  • LC Classification:AM7
  • Dewey Decimal:069

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments / Bryony Onciul, Michelle L. Stefano and Stephanie Hawke -- Introduction / Bryony Onciul -- Engaging Concepts: -- 1. The Gate in the Wall: Beyond Happiness-making in Museums / Bernadette Lynch -- 2. Assembling Communities: Curatorial Practices, Material Cultures and Meanings / Philipp Schorch -- 3. Interview -- John Tunbridge -- 4. Interview -- Gregory Ashworth -- 5. Engaging with Māori and Archaeologists: Heritage Theory and Practice in Āotearoa New Zealand / Elizabeth Pishief -- 6. Horizontality: Tactical Politics for Participation and Museums / Helen Graham -- Engaging Creatively: -- 7. Re-imagining Egypt: Artefacts, Contemporary Art and Community Engagement in the Museum / Gemma Tully -- 8. Interview -- Evita Buša -- 9. Interview -- Shatha Abu Khafajah -- 10. Engaging Communities of De-industrialisation: The Mapping Baybrook and Mill Stories Projects of Baltimore, USA / Michelle L. Stefano and Nicole King -- 11. Interview -- Ashley Minner -- Engaging Challenges: -- 12. Embattled Legacies: Challenges in Community Engagement at Historic Battlefields in the UK / Justin Sikora -- 13. At the Community Level: Intangible Cultural Heritage as Naturally-occurring Ecomus…

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Subjects

20.12 art museums Archéologie communautaire Community archaeology Historic sites -- Management Lieux historiques -- Gestion Musées -- Gestion Museums -- Management Museums and community public archaeology Relations musée-collectivité

Writers

Hawke, Stephanie Kate Onciul, Bryony Stefano, Michelle L.

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