ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses cultural production and participation through the dialectical theoretical framework which was presented in chapter 2. Some of the key concepts discussed in chapter 2, such as cultural capital and Community Cultural Wealth, demonstrate the pivotal role families and schooling play in cultivating dispositions, or familiarity with dominantly valued knowledge and culture which, in turn, shape certain museum participation patterns and are linked with the reproduction of inequalities. The chapter argues for the need to carry out research with families from nondominant communities to understand how family capital and/or Community Cultural Wealth relate to museum participation patterns as well as the role that family practices play. It also addresses the challenge museums face as they grapple with issues of inequality and unequal power relations by repositioning them in a space of conviviality, the social pattern of convivial encounters with ‘difference’ which is an integral part of everyday life.
