Heritage and Community Engagement

This book is about the way that professionals in archaeology and in other sectors of heritage interact with a range of stakeholder groups, communities and the wider public. Whilst these issues have been researched and discussed over many years and in many geographical contexts, the debate seems to have settled into a comfortable stasis wherein it is assumed that all that can be done by way of engagement has been done and there is little left to achieve. In some cases, such engagement is built on legislation or codes of ethics and there can be little doubt that it is an important and significant aspect of heritage policy.

1. Introduction: Heritage and Community Engagement - Finding a new agenda Steve Watson and Emma Waterton 2. The recognition and misrecognition of community heritage Emma Waterton and Laurajane Smith 3. The politics of community heritage: Motivations, authority and control Elizabeth Crooke 4. Unfulfilled promises? Heritage management and community participation at some of Africa's cultural heritage sites Shadreck Chirikure, Munyaradzi Manyanga, Webber Ndoro and Gilbert Pwiti 5. Heritage and empowerment: Community-based Indigenous cultural heritage in Northern Australia Shelly Greer 6. New frameworks for community engagement in archive sector: From handing over to handing on Mary Stevens, Andrew Flinn and Elizabeth Shepherd 7. Uninherited heritage: Tradition and heritage production in Shetland, Åland and Svalbard Adam Grydehøj 8. Decentring the new protectors: Transforming Aboriginal heritage in South Australia Steve Hemming and Daryle Rigney 9. Beyond the rhetoric: Negotiating the politics and realising the potential of community-driven heritage engagement Corinne Perkin 10. Meaning-making and cultural heritage in Jordan: The local community, the contexts and the archaeological sites in Khreibt al-Suq Shatha Abu-Khafajah 11. Power relations and community involvement in landscape-based cultural heritage management practice: An Australian case study Jonathan Prangnell, Anne Ross and Brian Coghill