Museums, Identity and Family Practices

Theano Moussouri (University College London, UK)

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Routledge
07 October 2024

Museums & museology; Social & cultural history; Cultural studies; Sociology: family & relationships; Moral & social purpose of education

Series: Routledge Research in Museum Studies

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.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

By: Theano Moussouri (University College London UK)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 520g
ISBN: 9780367457679
ISBN 10: 0367457679
Series: Routledge Research in Museum Studies
Pages: 184
Publication Date: 07 October 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Theano Moussouri is Professor of Museum Studies at UCL Institute of Archaeology. Previously, she worked at the University of Leicester in the UK and the University of Athens and the University of Thessaly in Greece. In the past, she was Audience Researcher at the Audience Research Unit of the Science Museum and served as Director of Audience Focus Inc.