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The Museum as a Space of Social Care

The Museum as a Space of Social Care

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Series: Critical Studies in Heritage, Emotion and Affect

Business GeneralAnthropologyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0367561867
ISBN13: 9780367561864
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Apr 29 2022
Pages: 236
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This book examines the practice of community engagement in museums through the notion of care. It focuses on building an understanding of the logic of care that underpins this practice, with a view to outlining new roles for museums within community health and social care.

This book engages with the recent growing focus on community participation in museum activities, notably in the area of health and wellbeing. It explores this theme through an analysis of the practices of community engagement workers at Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums in the UK. It examines how this work is operationalised and valued in the museum, and the institutional barriers to this practice. It presents the practices of care that shape community-led exhibitions, and community engagement projects involving health and social care partners and their clients. Drawing on the ethics of care and geographies of care literatures, this text provides readers with novel perspectives for transforming the museum into a space of social care.

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