Heritage as Community Research

Heritage as Community Research explores the nature of contemporary heritage research involving university and community partners. Putting forward a new view of heritage as a process of research and involvement with the past undertaken with or by the communities for whom it is relevant the book uses a diverse range of case studies with many chapters co-written between academics and community partners. Through this extensive work the Editors show that the process of research itself can be an empowering force by which communities stake a claim in the places they live.