Engaging Communities in Cultural Heritage

Introduction: Heritage participation and community engagement on the move

Tuuli Lähdesmäki and Johanna Turunen

Section I: Heritage participation and social inclusion

1.      Looking beyond recited truths of heritage participation Inclusive perspectives on institutions, epistemologies, and representation

Johanna Turunen

2.      Examining public perceptions of Roma representation in cultural festivals in Sibiu.

Alin Croitoru and Ionela Vlase

3.      Local cultural festivals as spaces of inclusion – The festival organisers’ perspective.

Raluca Mureșan

4.      Branding Germanness in Transylvania. Combined and uneven heritagisation

Ovio Olaru

5.      Sauna Dialogues – The methodological potential of sauna as a site for making heritage futures

Anna Talasniemi

6.      History and heritage in Sagunt, Spain: An opportunity for social innovation through university culture

María-Dolores Pitarch-Garrido, Ester Alba-Pagán and Miguel Requena-Jiménez

Section II: Digital tools in heritage participation

7.      Digitizing literary heritage: Some lessons from the Digital Museum of the Romanian Novel

Andrei Terian and Ştefan Baghiu

8.      Technological and cultural challenges in the collaborative design of participatory heritage platforms between the Global North and Global South: Toward decolonial computing.

Khaoula Stiti

9.      Playing with history: Engagement and mediations through Assassin’s Creed – An ethnographic perspective

Kenza Gana and Renaud Garcia-Bardidia

10.  Digital media and safeguarding intangible cultural heritage of minority groups in China: A case study of animated short films Orochen Tale of Nisan Shaman and Orochen Creation Story

Jiyun Zhang

Section III: Managing heritage participation

11.  Opportunities and challenges of participatory heritage governance: Developing the Seminaarinmäki Campus as a European Heritage Label site in Finland

Tuuli Lähdesmäki

12.  Engaging communities of practice in cultural heritage. A multi-site study of private partners within French cultural ecosystems

Renaud Garcia-Bardidia, Pénélope Girard, and Mathieu Viau-Courville

13.  Reframing knowledge in cultural heritage: Promoting openness and public engagement in museums through organic management

Mathieu Viau-Courville

14.  Civic engagement in cultural heritage. The Transylvanian Saxon case over the last century

Daniela Stanciu-Păscărița and Sorin Radu

15.  Revisiting the darkness: Participatory approaches for engaging with difficult and ‘dark’ heritage places

Suzie Thomas

Biography

Tuuli Lähdesmäki is a professor of art history at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. She specialises in critical heritage studies, heritage policies and politics, cultural memory, identities, and narratives of Europe.

Johanna Turunen is a senior researcher of contemporary culture studies at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Her work is focused on the intersections of critical heritage studies and post- and decolonial theory.

Andrei Terian is a professor of Romanian literature at the Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania. He researches intangible cultural heritage, specialising in the textual heritage, cultural memory, canonisation, and digitisation.

Renaud Garcia-Bardidia is a professor of cultural studies at the University of Lorraine and an associate researcher at the University of Burgundy, France. His research addresses the digitalisation of cultural consumption practices and the evolution of cultural institutions in this context.