Heritage as Community Research explores the nature ofcontemporary heritage research involving university and community partners. Itputs forward a new view of heritage as a process of research and involvementwith the past, undertaken with or by communities for whom it is relevant.Rather than just reflecting on existing discourses about heritage, this bookderives from community-based research into heritage in which histories areexplored through new modes of production: crossing disciplines and sustainingpartnerships. The book shows that the process of research itself can be anempowering force by which communities stake a claim in the places they live.