Gebundenes Buch

The Routledge Companion to Public Humanities Scholarship

Beschreibung

Across humanities disciplines, public scholarship brings academics and community members and organizations together in mutually-beneficial partnership for research, teaching, and programming. While the field of publicly engaged humanities scholarship has been growing for some time, there are few volumes that have attempted to define and represent its scope. The Routledge Companion to Public Humanities Scholarship brings together wide-ranging case studies sharing perspectives on this work, grounded in its practice in the United States.

The collection begins with chapters reflecting on theories and practices of public humanities scholarship. The case studies that follow are organized around six areas of particular impact in public humanities scholarship: Informing contemporary debates; amplifying community voices and histories; helping individuals and communities navigate difficult experiences; preserving culture in times of crisis and change; expanding educational access; and building and supporting public scholarship. The Companion concludes with a glossary, introducing select concepts. Taken together, these resources offer an overview for students and practitioners of public humanities scholarship, creating an accessible vocabulary rooted in the practices that have so advanced academic and community life.

Although drawing on case studies from the US, these examples offer perspectives and insights relevant to public humanities around the world. This book will be of interest to anyone working within the public humanities or wanting to make their work public and engage with wider communities.

Autor

Daniel Fisher-Livne is Assistant Professor at Hebrew Union College- Jewish Institute of Religion, USA. He holds a concurrent appointment as Research Affiliate at the National Humanities Alliance, USA. Michelle May-Curry is a Washington, D.C.-based curator, core faculty for Georgetown University's Master of Arts in Engaged and Public Humanities, and Research Affiliate at the National Humanities Alliance, USA.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Literature Companions
• Verlag: Routledge / Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 458
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 1000g
• ISBN-13: 9781032163390
• ISBN-10: 1032163399
• Artikelnr.: 70150603

Rezensionen

"Fisher-Livne (Hebrew Union College) and May-Curry (Georgetown Univ.) present essays by a variety of professors, museum curators, librarians, and others working in public humanities, which provide guidance to practitioners and demonstrate how vital such projects are to the further development of humanistic studies and to our communities. Intended for multiple audiences engaging with public humanities-whether in theory and research capacities or in designing, implementing, or evaluating actual projects . . . The case study format allows for easy adaptation of project ideas to other contexts, making it particularly useful for faculty looking for ways to involve students in community-based service learning projects. In a time when many question the relevance of the humanities in higher education and public life, this volume is critical. Summing Up: Essential. Undergraduates through faculty; professionals."

--M. Anderson, CHOICE