Heritage as Community Research: Legacies of Co-production

Description

Heritage as Community Research explores the nature of contemporary heritage research involving university and community partners. It puts forward a new view of heritage as a process of research and involvement with the past, undertaken with or by communities for whom it is relevant. Rather than just reflecting on existing discourses about heritage, this book derives from community-based research into heritage in which histories are explored through new modes of production: crossing disciplines and sustaining partnerships. The book shows that the process of research itself can be an empowering force by which communities stake a claim in the places they live.

David Forrest University of York University of Aberdeen University of Aberdeen University of Aberdeen De Montfort University University of Sheffield Helen Graham is Associate Professor in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds. Jo Vergunst is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology, University of Aberdeen Kate Pahl is Professor of Arts and Literacy at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. Helen Graham is Associate Professor in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds. Jo Vergunst is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology, University of Aberdeen

"This work is a needed stimulus for collaborative research between academics and communities and for critical interdisciplinary heritage studies." Celeste Ray, Sewanee: The University of the South