Museums, Identity and Family Practices

• Main Author: Moussouri, Theano
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Taylor & Francis 2025
• Series: Routledge Research in Museum Studies
• Subjects: Activities; Cultural and media studies; Cultural studies; Economics, Finance, Business and Management; Education; Family & Relationships; family discourse; family paideia; family practices; History; History and Archaeology; Industry and industrial studies; Library and information sciences / Museology; Moral and social purpose of education; Museology and heritage studies; Museum; Museum Studies; Nonfiction; Philosophy and theory of education; Pre-school and kindergarten; Primary and middle schools; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; Retail and wholesale industries; Schools and pre-schools; Secondary schools; Society and culture: general; Society and Social Sciences; Sociology; Sociology and anthropology; Sociology: family and relationships; the museum as arena; visit paths
• ISBN: 104018457X; 9781003025177; 1040184510; 9781040184516; 0367457679; 9781040184578; 100302517X; 9780367457679
• DOI: 10.4324/9781003025177

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.