(Multi)Cultural Heritage: New Perspectives on Public Culture, Identity and Citizenship

该项目旨在了解移民和少数民族社区如何通过在主流机构之外组织的公共文化表现形式（包括创意或展览或博物馆活动）参与其遗产。该项目提请注意组织如何以及为什么表达文化遗产，遗产并不总是被理解为建筑物和物品，而是传统，特征和来自过去的思维方式。该研究将研究（多）文化组织的结构和流程，他们的利益相关者和受众，以及他们的动机。它还将询问他们的遗产活动如何表达关于归属和公民身份的新思想，以及他们如何更广泛地参与遗产和文化政策的制定。该项目整合了研究和领导组成部分，重点是在七个案例研究地点进行实地研究，并举办四个领导讲习班。一个关键方面将是参与和动员一个由学者，从业者和文化专业人士组成的多元文化团队，作为共同研究人员和研讨会参与者。该研究将记录，分析和比较，在与案例研究合作伙伴的对话中，组织环境和实践构成了多元文化组织中的公共遗产表达。分析将试图了解遗产的谈判和调整如何成为社区和更广泛社会内紧张关系和团结的潜在来源。这项研究将侧重于曼彻斯特和纽卡斯尔的群体，这些群体的规模、种族和政策经验各不相同。案例研究包括曼彻斯特犹太博物馆;中国当代艺术中心; Vamos; Sangini; Angelou中心，伊朗团体Women Together for Community和虚拟网站Everyday Muslim。 将使用文件、观察、访谈和与利益攸关方、从业人员和受众的参与性方法对案例现场进行调查。一个由学术界、案例现场和机构行为者组成的咨询委员会将指导该项目。将在为期一天的四个系列研讨会中将不同的地点聚集在一起，讨论方法，收集的数据，共同的问题和影响，以及对政策制定和行动的影响。其目的是将知识交流、联网和传播活动纳入研究进程，从而确保参与者学习方法、互动和分享研究成果，并探索项目以外的未来合作。领导活动将促进从业人员和文化专业人员之间的新联系，网络，工具和实践，并提高PI作为该主题领先学术的领导技能。四个研讨会将把案例现场的参与者聚集在一起，根据需要与资源人员一起讨论他们对研究及其潜在政策后果的想法。在研究和相关的参与活动中，PI必须是一个敏感的促进者和少数参与者的谈判者。此外，该项目力求提高多元文化从业者自身的领导能力，以建立持久的遗产。PI还将在诺森比亚建立一个新的多元文化身份与遗产研究小组。传播将包括学术、政策和公共产出。主要学术成果将是一本关于（多种）文化遗产的编辑书籍。此外，还将组织全球/国家/地方会议小组（批判遗产研究协会、MeCCSA、AIM），并将同行评审的文章提交给《艺术管理、法律和社会杂志》和《文化趋势》。将为ACE、DCMS、EH和National Trust编写政策战略文件。公众参与将是一个便携式展览;一个由多个组成部分组成的网站，托管在项目之外;以及与多元文化合作伙伴共同制作的诺森布里亚年度研讨会活动。

The project seeks to understand the ways that immigrant and ethnic communities engage with their heritage through public cultural expressions organised OUTSIDE of mainstream institutions - including creative or exhibitionary or museum activities. The project draws attention to how and why organisations express cultural heritage, with heritage not always understood as buildings and objects, but as traditions, characteristics and ways of thinking drawn from the past. The study will examine the structures and processes of (multi)cultural organisations, their stakeholders and audiences, and their motivations. It will also ask how their heritage activities might express new ideas about belonging and citizenship, and how they might participate more extensively in heritage and cultural policy-making. The project integrates research and leadership components, focusing efforts on field research at seven case study sites, and four leadership workshops. A key aspect will be to engage and mobilise a multicultural team of academics, practitioners and cultural professionals as co-researchers as well as workshop participants. The RESEARCH will document, analyse and compare, in dialogue with case study partners, the organisational environments and practices that constitute public heritage expressions among multicultural organisations. Analysis will seek to understand how the negotiation and adaptation of heritage represents a potential source of tension, as well as solidarity, within both communities and wider society. The study will focus on groups in Manchester and Newcastle, with diverse size, ethnicity and policy experiences. Case studies include the Manchester Jewish Museum; Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art; Vamos; Sangini; the Angelou Centre, the Iranian group Women Together for Community, and the virtual site Everyday Muslim. Case sites will be investigated using documents, observation, interviews and participatory methods with stakeholders, practitioners and audiences. An Advisory Board of academic, case site and institutional actors will guide the project. The diverse sites will be drawn together in a series of four one-day workshops to discuss the methodology, data collected, shared issues and impacts, and implications for policy making and action. The intent is to embed knowledge exchange, networking and dissemination activities within the research process, thereby ensuring that participants will learn methods, interact and share research, and explore future collaborations beyond the project. The LEADERSHIP activities will stimulate new connections, networks, tools and practices among practitioners and cultural professionals, as well as enhance the leadership skills of the PI as a leading academic in this topic. Four workshops will bring case site participants together, with resource people as needed, to debate their thoughts on the research and its potential policy consequences. The PI must be a sensitive facilitator and negotiator with minority participants, both in the context of the research and related engagement activities. Further, the project seeks to enhance the leadership capabilities of multicultural practitioners themselves to build a lasting legacy. The PI will also establish a new Multicultural Identity & Heritage Research Group at Northumbria. Dissemination will include academic, policy, and public outputs. The main academic output will be an edited book on (Multi)Cultural Heritage. As well, global/national/local conference panels will be organised (Assoc. of Critical Heritage Studies, MeCCSA, AIM), and peer-reviewed articles submitted to 'Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society' and 'Cultural Trends'. A policy strategy document will be prepared for ACE, DCMS, EH and National Trust. Public engagements will be a portable exhibition; a multi-component website hosted beyond the project;and an annual symposium event at Northumbria co-produced with the multicultural partners.