Cultural Networks in Migrating Heritage: Intersecting Theories and Practices Across Europe

ISBN-13: 9781472448132 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 180 str.

Perla Innocenti

Opis

This book is a study of the role of cultural and heritage networks and how they can help institutions and their host societies manage the tensions and realise the opportunities arising from migration. In looking at past and emerging challenges of social inclusion and cultural dialogue, hybrid models of cultural identity, citizenship and national belonging, the study also sets out to answer the questions 'how'. How can cultural institutions leverage the power of cross-border networks in a contested place such as Europe today? How could they elaborate approaches and strategies based on cultural practices? How can the actions of the European Commission and relevant cultural bodies be strengthened, adapted or extended to meet these goals? Cultural Networks in Migrating Heritage will be of interest to scholars and students in museum and cultural heritage studies, visual arts, sociology of organisations and information studies. It will also be relevant to practitioners and policymakers from museums, libraries, NGOs and cultural institutions at large.

Spis treści

Introduction; Chapter 1 Migrating Heritage; Chapter 2 Cultural Networks Shaped; Chapter 3 Cultural Networks Weakened; Chapter 4 Cultural Networks Strengthened; Chapter 5 Coda;

O autorze

Perla Innocenti is a cultural heritage and information studies scholar. She is Senior Lecturer in Information Science at the iSchool of Northumbria University and Honorary Research Fellow at the School of Culture and Creative Arts, University of Glasgow. Her research and publications cross disciplinary boundaries between cultural heritage, museum studies, cultural informatics, library and information science. In particular she has a passion for investigating the ways cultural collections can be acquired, managed, preserved, accessed, displayed and interpreted in a digital world. Perla has a PhD from the University of Glasgow, a MA from Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Research Fellowships from University of Glasgow and Politecnico di Milano. She led research as Principal Investigator and Co-Investigator in several national and EU-funded collaborative research projects, and worked in libraries and with museums. With Ashgate, Perla published Migrating Heritage (ed., 2014).