Museums, Identity and Family Practices
Abstract
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.
Keywords
family practices; visit paths; family paideia; family discourse; the museum as arena; MuseumDOI
10.4324/9781003025177ISBN
9781040184516, 9780367457679, 9781003025177, 9781040184578, 9781040184516Publisher
Taylor & FrancisPublisher website
https://taylorandfrancis.com/Publication date and place
Oxford, 2025Imprint
RoutledgeSeries
Routledge Research in Museum Studies,Classification
Museology and heritage studies
Sociology: family and relationships
Moral and social purpose of education
Cultural studies
Retail and wholesale industries
Pre-school and kindergarten
Primary and middle schools
Secondary schools
History