Chapter 1 Reading the Present Through the Past: A Critical Introduction

Chapter 2 Valuing Cultural Participation: The Usefulness of the Eighteenth-Century Stage

Chapter 3 Cultural Participation and the Place of History: A Case Study of Peterborough Societies, Past and Present

Chapter 4 From CEMA to the Arts Council: Cultural Authority, Participation and the Question of ‘Value’ in Early Post-war Britain

Chapter 5 Enacting Community on Dartmoor: MED Theatre’s Badgerland: A Dartmoor Comedy (2015) and the Spatial Praxis of Community Performance Within a Conservation Zone

Chapter 6 Histories of Public Parks in Manchester and Salford and Their Role in Cultural Policies for Everyday Participation

Chapter 7 Cultural Ecologies: Policy, Participation and Practices

Chapter 8 Calling Participation to Account: Taking Part in the Politics of Method