Museums, Identity and Family Practices

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Title

Museums, Identity and Family Practices

Subject

Education, Humanities, Museum and Heritage Studies, Social Sciences, Tourism, Hospitality and Events

Description

Museums, Identity and Family Practices locates museum participation and meaning making in the realm of everyday family practices, which are central to understanding the role museums play in family social life.

Drawing on a substantial amount of data from a wide range of sources, Moussouri discusses the importance of understanding how family practices are enacted across settings and how the arena of the museum can facilitate certain family practices and impede others. Developing and theorising key concepts, the book elucidates the key research themes, including everyday family practice; meaning making; and the structural characteristics of museums as arenas for the family visit activity. The analysis is rooted in a dialectical theoretical framework specifically developed to bridge the macrolevel (social order or the arena of the museum) and microlevel (family practices).

Museums, Identity and Family Practices offers a novel and holistic approach to studying contemporary families and, as such, is key reading for scholars and students of museum and heritage studies, family studies, visitor studies, cultural studies, education, sociology and anthropology. Museum and heritage professionals working with families in different communities around the world will also find this book relevant to their practice.

Creator

Theano Moussouri

Source

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mono/10.4324/9781003025177/museums-identity-family-practices-theano-moussouri?context=ubx&refId=57f70972-d7c6-4b0e-80db-a242267cd6de

Publisher

Routledge

Date

7 October 2024

Contributor

Upload by Nurma Harumiaty

Rights

Creative Commons,
CC BY-NC-ND

Format

PDF

Language

English

Type

Textbooks

Identifier

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003025177
Pages: 194
eBook: ISBN9781003025177

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