Theorizing Children’s Cultural Heritage

Theorizing Children’s Cultural Heritage provides a critical exploration of children as heritage producers by exploring how children’s productions are handled by mainstream museums and archives.By merging child studies with heritage studies, the authors present the theoretical concept of children's cultural heritage. This interdisciplinary theoretical venture creates an indisputable position for children as cultural heritage producers within heritage studies and heritage institutions. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted with children and children’s archive material, the book’s innovative approach incorporates the role of international politics and individual practices in establishing the concept of children’s cultural heritage. The goal of the book is to challenge ideas both about cultural heritage in its broadest sense, and contemporary taken for granted conceptualisations of children .Theorizing Children’s Cultural Heritage contributes new theoretical and methodological ideas about children’s cultural heritage. It is essential reading for academics, researchers and students working in heritage studies, child studies, museum studies and archival sciences.