Culture and Perspective deals with a variety of key aspects concerning heritage management at times of crisis and specifically with the public character of cultural heritage. Special, but not exclusive emphasis, is on the case of Greece. In order to understand, evaluate and reconsider the role of the state in heritage management, contributors address a series of issues including the downgrading and shrinking of state structures, which have been the dominant mechanisms in heritage management; the upgrading and expansion of the role of private initiative towards covering the gap created by the insufficiency of the state; the public character of heritage, in terms of ownership as well as access; and finally the synergies between state structures and private initiatives in view of the public character of heritage. Key themes include: state heritage policies at times of crisis and the legal framework of heritage management; the role of non-government/non-profit agencies; heritage and business enterprise focusing on developmental and energy infrastructures in proximity to historic environments; the role of museums in the current socio-economic environment; and digital media and new types of public engagement that they engender.

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of contributors
• Introduction: Sophia Antoniadou, Giorgos Vavouranakis, Ioannis Poulios and Pavlina Raouzaiou
• 1. Assessing possible futures for cultural heritage: national, global, public, private, commercial?: John Carman
• PART 1: THE STATE MEETS THE PRIVATE
  • 2. Archaeological Resource Management in Greece: state, private, public and common: Giorgos Vavouranakis
  • 3. Developmental and energy infrastructures in proximity to historic environments: the investor and the state: Ioannis Poulios and George Arampatzis
• PART 2: THE PRIVATE MEETS THE PUBLIC
  • 4. Cultural tourism and cultural heritage in times of change: private initiative in Greece vis-à-vis the Greek state: Katerina Giannitsioti, Smaragda Touloupa and Ioannis Poulios
• PART 3: MUSEUMS AT CROSSROADS
  • 5. Valuing museums in government-indebted Greece: critical thoughts on critical questions: Marlen Mouliou
  • 6. ‘An ace caff with quite a nice museum attached?’ Entitlement, ownership, pleasure and controversy in the discourse on museums as public spaces: Myrto Hatzaki
  • 7. When ‘public’ meets ‘private’: the Leventis Municipal Museum of Nicosia as a case study: Loukia Loizou Hadjigavriel
• PART 4: TOWARDS A NEW ‘PUBLIC’: COMMUNICATION PRACTICES AND POLICIES
  • 8. Heritage encounters on social network sites, and the affiliative power of objects: Costis Dallas
  • 9. Cultural production in Greece between the ‘public’ and the ‘private’ sphere: is there a difference to the ‘public’?: Andromache Gazi
  • 10. Seeking the scapegoat in the relationship between culture and communication: Mary Adamopoulou