Heritage as Community Research

Jo Vergunst is a Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen.Helen Graham is a Research Fellow in Tangible and Intangible Heritage and Director of the Centre for Critical Studies in Museums, Galleries and Heritage at the university of Leeds.

• Introduction: Heritage as community research ~ Jo Vergunst and Helen Graham;Part one: Ways of knowing;Chapter one: Legacy and lavender: community heritage and the arts ~ Helen Smith and Mark Hope;Chapter two: Co-writing about co-producing musical heritage: what happens when musicians and academics work together? ~ John Ball, Tony Bowring, Fay Hield and Kate Pahl;Chapter three: Visibly authentic: images of Romani people from 19th-century culture to the digital age ~ Jodie Matthews;Chapter four: Digital building heritage ~ Nick Higgett and Jenny Wilkinson;Chapter five: Shaping heritage in the landscape amongst communities past and present ~ Jo Vergunst, Elizabeth Curtis, Neil Curtis, Jeff Oliver and Colin Shepherd;Part two: Heritage as action;Chapter six: CAER heritage: legacies of co-produced research ~ Oliver Davis, Dave Horton, Helen McCarthy and Dave Wyatt;Chapter seven: Do-It-Yourself heritage: Heritage-as-a-process (designing for the Stoke ‘ping’) ~ Karen Brookfield, Danny Callaghan and Helen Graham with members of the Ceramic City Stories team: Jayne Fair, Jan Roberts and Phil Rowley;Chapter eight: From researching heritage to action heritage ~ Kimberley Marwood, Esme Cleall, Vicky Crewe, David Forrest, Toby Pillatt, Gemma Thorpe and Robert Johnston;Chapter nine: Co-productive research in a primary school environment: un-earthing the past of Keig ~ Elizabeth Curtis, Jane Murison and Colin Shepherd; Conclusion: Co-producing futures: directions for community heritage as research ~ Helen Graham, Jo Vergunst and Elizabeth Curtis.

"This work is a needed stimulus for collaborative research between academics and communities and for critical interdisciplinary heritage studies." Celeste Ray, Sewanee: The University of the South