Communities and Museums in the 21st Century: Shared Histories and Climate Action [Hardcover]

Preface; Introduction: Museum communities / community museums; PART I, Community Museums: Nurturing identities and resilience  Chapter 1, Community museums and decolonisation: reflections from the Network of Community Museums of America ; Chapter 2, International collaboration between ecomuseums and community museums: the experience of the EU-LAC Museums bi-regional youth exchange in fostering identity, building community sustainability and resilience ; Chapter 3, Passion as a mobilising tool for community-based museums: case studies from Southern Chile ; Chapter 4, Museums and Community Engagement in Belize: case studies for protection and active participation of knowledge ; Chapter 5, The EU-LAC Museums project and community-based museums ;Chapter 6, Museums as tools for sustainable community development: a study of four archaeological museums in northern Peru; Chapter 7, Connecting Museums through Citizen Science: Jamaica/US Partnership in Environmental Preservation ;Chapter 8, Evoking wonder to inspire action around climate change  a collaborative exhibition project in the Cayman Islands ; PART II Connecting Regions: Communities and museums co-curating heritage and memory  Chapter 9, The case for a rhizomatic research approach in Caribbean museology ; Chapter 10, Co-curating memory: deconstructing the silences around Caribbean migration to Britain ; Chapter 11, A case study of community virtual museums in the age of crisis designing a virtual museum of Caribbean migration and memory ; Chapter 12 Eco-museology in artistic practice: post-colonial strategies of collective return in Latin America and the Caribbean ; Chapter 13, Exhibition-making as storytelling: the 14^th FlC.