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Arts councils, policy-making and "the local"
(Taylor & Francis, 2019-08-01) Durrer, Victoria; Gilmore, Abigail; Stevenson, David
In the British Isles, national policies for the arts are primarily viewed as the responsibility of arts councils with statutory duties to distribute state funding that meet the requirements of both ’arms-length’ principles and national strategic frameworks. This paper explores the tensions between policy making for the nation-state and for ‘the local’ through comparative research on the arts councils (and equivalent bodies) in England, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. Drawing on policy analysis and in-depth qualitative interviews with senior representatives from these organisations, it explores their notions of, responsibilities to and affiliations with ‘the local’, particularly in relation to institutional partnerships and their perceived relevance to local strategies for the arts. Findings suggest that despite their different models and relationships to the nation-state, and the disparities in the scale of investment, these national policy bodies commonly rely on networked governance to facilitate their relationship to ‘the local’ thus reproducing national interests, limiting the localised agency of place-based approaches and contributing to a culture of competition within cultural policy (Mould, 2018).
Cultural Policy is Local: Understanding Cultural Policy as Situated Practice
(Palgrave Macmillan Cham, 2023-08-27) Durrer, Victoria; Gilmore, Abigail; Jancovich, Leila; Stevenson, David; Durrer, Victoria; Gilmore, Abigail; Jancovich, Leila; Stevenson, David
This Open Access edited collection calls for a greater understanding of ‘the local’ within the ways the arts, culture and creative practices are governed, promoted, regulated, resourced and valued. Cultural policy studies tends to privilege the national (and international) as the primary site at which cultural policy is enacted, and focuses on the ‘local’ as a case study of practice, rather than a site of policy in its own right. While this may make global policy transfer manageable for national policy agencies, it ignores the contingent relationships, diverse geographies and distinct identities of localities. This volume addresses this gap and is structured around three themes: disciplining the local, which examines key concepts from different academic fields of study; managing the local, which identifies policy approaches that engage with the idea of ‘the local’ in different ways; and practising the local, which offers case studies of how ‘local’ cultural policies are being enacted in places of differing scale and geography.
Place-specific approaches to sustainable prosperity [Oral Presentation]
(VISUAL Carlow, 2022-03-25) Schrag, Anthony; Finkel, Rebecca; Durrer, Victoria
Place-specific approaches to sustainable prosperity in the arts & cultural sector [Panel Discussion]
(Brokering Intercultural Exchange, 2022-02-17) Finkel, Rebecca; Schrag, Anthony; Durrer, Victoria
Reflecting on Place and the Local
(Palgrave Macmillan Cham, 2023-08-27) Durrer, Victoria; Gilmore, Abigail; Jancovich, Leila; Stevenson, David
Engaging with both place and ‘the local’ has become an important part of cultural policy rhetoric in many countries, from the resurgence of city-regional governance models to calls for new forms of ‘localism’ involving participatory governance approaches intended to engender more active citizenship and to help people feel more empowered regarding the decisions that affect them. Depending on their approach, national interventions can exacerbate existing socio-economic inequities between places and risk investing in infrastructure without due consideration to sustainability within locations or the movement of cultural workers and audiences across locations. This introduction makes the case that views of the ‘local’ have been limited in the fields of cultural policymaking and study. It summarises some of the ways both place and ‘the local’ have been conceptualised. It argues how conceptions of ‘the local’ in policy can vary significantly requiring an examination of the process of situating ‘the local’ as it occurs in policymaking as well as what happens in ‘the local’ as a result or even despite that positioning.
Situating the local in global cultural policy
(Taylor & Francis, 2019-09-06) Durrer, Victoria; Gilmore, Abigail; Jancovich, Leila; Stevenson, David
From the growth of city regions to the calls for more localism, engaging with ‘the local’ has become an increasingly important part of cultural policy rhetoric in many countries (UNESCO, 2013; UCLG, 2019). Yet despite apparent recognition that the practices of culture are always situated (and hence local), contemporary cultural policy research tends to privilege the national or international as the primary site at which cultural policy is enacted and thus, can be reformed (Durrer, et al., 2018). For all of its increasing use ‘the local’ remains abstract, seemingly deployed to legitimate activity that is of debatable benefit to the places and practices imagined by its invocation.
Sustainable prosperity in arts & cultural sectors (UK & Ireland) [Panel Discussion]
(University of Antwerp, 2022-09-20) Durrer, Victoria; Finkel, Rebecca; Schrag, Anthony; Banks, Mark; Oakley, Kate; O'Connor, Justin; Xuereb, Karsten