Community Empowerment Approach to Heritage Management

Evangelos Kyriakidis, PhD, is the founding director of the Heritage Management Organization and Senior Lecturer in Aegean Prehistory at the University of Kent, UK. Trained at UCL and Cambridge in Classical Archaeology, Linguistics and Anthropology, a fellow of the society of Antiquaries of London and a visiting professor at UCLA. Formerly Senior Leventis Research Fellow in Heritage Management and fellow of the Archaeological Society of Athens. Evangelos’ research on heritage management has contributed to Kent being rated second for its impact in society in the UK. He is the founding director of the highly rated International MA in Heritage Management in Athens, Greece.

• Foreword: The Climb up the Philioremos Peak; Chapter 1: Introducing our Approach: Old Site, New Perspectives; Chapter 2: The Local Context; Chapter 3: Values and the Management of Heritage; Chapter 4: The Values of the Philioremos Peak Sanctuary Site; Chapter 5: A 'Community Empowerment' Approach to Public Archaeology; Chapter 6: The Outcomes of the Project: Community Engagement and Empowerment in Practice; Chapter 7: Conclusions

"Community Archaeology projects are a growing force in heritage management across the globe. This timely and powerful case study offers a new and empowering approach to conducting successful projects through grass roots engagement. It deserves the widest possible audience." Roger White, University of Birmingham, UK