BOOK

Engaging heritage, engaging communities

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

2017

Overview

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.

• Publisher: The Boydell Press
• Subject: Museums Management. / Museums and community. / Historic sites Management. / Community archaeology. / 20.12 art museums.
• ISBN: 9781783271658, 1783271655

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
AM7.E545 2017	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE