Communities and Museums in the 21st Century

Karen Brown is Professor of Art History at the University of St Andrews, UK.Alissandra Cummins is Director of the Barbados Museum & Historical Society and lecturer and coordinator in museum and heritage studies at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill.Ana S. González Rueda is a researcher focused on critical approaches to learning in contemporary art curation.

• Preface; Introduction: Museum communities / community museums; PART I, ‘Community Museums: Nurturing identities and resilience’ – Chapter 1, "Community museums and decolonisation: reflections from the Network of Community Museums of America"; Chapter 2, "International collaboration between ecomuseums and community museums: the experience of the EU-LAC Museums bi-regional youth exchange in fostering identity, building community sustainability and resilience"; Chapter 3, "Passion as a mobilising tool for community-based museums: case studies from Southern Chile"; Chapter 4, "Museums and Community Engagement in Belize: case studies for protection and active participation of knowledge"; Chapter 5, "The EU-LAC Museums project and community-based museums";Chapter 6, "Museums as tools for sustainable community development: a study of four archaeological museums in northern Peru; Chapter 7, "Connecting Museums through Citizen Science: Jamaica/US Partnership in Environmental Preservation";Chapter 8, "Evoking wonder to inspire action around climate change – a collaborative exhibition project in the Cayman Islands"; PART II ‘Connecting Regions: Communities and museums co-curating heritage and memory’ – Chapter 9, "The case for a rhizomatic research approach in Caribbean museology"; Chapter 10, "Co-curating memory: deconstructing the silences around Caribbean migration to Britain"; Chapter 11, "A case study of community virtual museums in the age of crisis designing a virtual museum of Caribbean migration and memory"; Chapter 12 "Eco-museology in artistic practice: post-colonial strategies of collective return in Latin America and the Caribbean"; Chapter 13, "Exhibition-making as storytelling: the 14th FEMSA Biennial in Michoacán Mexico"; Chapter 14, " The Arrivants exhibition: Art, migration, museums, and resurrections"; Chapter 15, "The politics of change: new pedagogical approaches to Caribbean museology, conservation and curatorship"