Museum and Heritage Studies Products

By Muge Akkar Ercan

Over the last three decades, historic housing areas have become one of the major concerns in urban regeneration, housing renovation and conservation projects. Since the late 1990s, the notion of community, sustainability and sustainable community have become rising issues in the urban regeneration…

Hardback – 2019-12-10
Routledge
Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design

By Efraín Ovando-Shelley, Enrique Santoyo

This book describes the geotechnical aspects for correcting the geometry of Mexico City´s Metropolitan Cathedral and of the adjoining Sagrario Church. It describes the main aspects of geotechnical conditions in the city and of the most important hazards affecting these monuments. It discusses the…

Hardback – 2019-12-10
CRC Press
Built Heritage and Geotechnics

Edited by Margaret J.-M. Sönmez, Maia Wellington Gahtan, Nadia Cannata

Museums of Language and the Display of Intangible Cultural Heritage presents essays by practitioners based in language museums around the world. Describing their history, mission, and modes of display, contributors demonstrate the important role intangible heritage can and should play in the museum…

Hardback – 2019-12-09
Routledge
Routledge Research in Museum Studies

Edited by Christine Guillebaud, Catherine Lavandier

Worship Sound Spaces unites specialists from architecture, acoustic engineering and the social sciences to encourage closer analysis of the sound environments within places of worship. Gathering a wide range of case studies set in Europe, Asia, North America, the Middle East and Africa, the book…

Hardback – 2019-12-06
Routledge
Routledge Research in Architecture

Edited by Camilla Rossi-Linnemann, Giulia de Martini

Art in Science Museums brings together perspectives from different practitioners to reflect on the status and meaning of art programmes in science centres and museums around the world. Presenting a balanced mix of theoretical perspectives, practitioners’ reflections, and case-studies, this volume…

Hardback – 2019-12-05
Routledge
Routledge Research in Museum Studies

Edited by Thomas Carter, David Charles Harvey, Roy Jones, Iain J.M. Robertson

This book investigates the selection process of heritagisation to understand what specific pasts are being selected or rejected for representation, who is selecting them, how and to whom they are being represented and why they are being presented, or dismissed, in the ways that they are. Some…

Hardback – 2019-12-04
Routledge
Routledge Cultural Heritage and Tourism Series

By P.A. Mullins

This book is an examination of race, Black African objects, identity, museums at the turn of the 19th century in the U.S. via the history of the earliest collectors of Black African objects in the U.S.. Misrepresenting Black Africa in American Museums explores black identity as a changing, nuanced…

Hardback – 2019-12-04
Routledge
Routledge African Studies

By Cynthia Scott

Cultural Diplomacy and the Heritage of Empire analyzes the history of the negotiations that led to the atypical return of colonial-era cultural property from the Netherlands to Indonesia in the 1970s. By doing so, the book shows that competing visions of post-colonial redress were contested…

Hardback – 2019-11-29
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Culture and Development

Edited by Ilaria Porciani

Food Heritage and Nationalism in Europe contends that food is a fundamental element of heritage, and a particularly important one in times of crisis. Arguing that food, taste, cuisine and gastronomy are crucial markers of identity that are inherently connected to constructions of place, tradition…

Hardback – 2019-11-13
Routledge
Critical Heritages of Europe

Edited by Mark O'Neill, Glenn Hooper

Connecting Museums explores the boundaries of museums and how external relationships are affected by internal commitments, structures and traditions. Focusing on museums’ relationship with heath, inclusion, and community, the book provides a detailed assessment of the alliances between museums and…

Hardback – 2019-10-18
Routledge
Routledge Research in Museum Studies

Edited by Chiara De Cesari, Ayhan Kaya

European Memory in Populism explores the links between memory and populism in contemporary Europe. Focusing on circulating ideas of memory, especially European memory, in contemporary populist discourses, the book also analyses populist ideas in sites and practices of remembrance that usually tend…

Hardback – 2019-10-15
Routledge
Critical Heritages of Europe

By Brenda Cowan, Ross Laird, Jason McKeown

Museum Objects, Health and Healing provides an innovative and interdisciplinary study of the relationship between objects, health and healing. Shedding light on the primacy of the human need for relationships with objects, the book explores what kind of implications these relationships might have…

Hardback – 2019-10-10
Routledge
Routledge Research in Museum Studies