Cultural Policy is Local: Understanding Cultural Policy as Situated Practice
Date
2023-08-27Author
Durrer, Victoria
Gilmore, Abigail
Jancovich, Leila
Stevenson, David
Metadata
Show full item recordCitation
Durrer, V., Gilmore, A., Jancovich, L. and Stevenson, D. (eds) (2023) Cultural policy is local: understanding cultural policy as situated practice. Cham: Springer International Publishing (New Directions in Cultural Policy Research). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32312-6.
Abstract
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.
Official URL
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32312-6Collections
Related items
Showing items related by title, author, creator and subject.
-
Culture-led urban regeneration: sustainability models and practices for bottom-up cultural regeneration. The Italian case of Farm Cultural Park.
Unknown author (Queen Margaret University, 2016)Sustainability is at the heart of the debate about cultural organizations and is one of the more discussed topics inside them. Different approaches can be used when dealing with it and the literature on the topic is wide ... -
What's the problem again? The problematisation of cultural participation in Scottish cultural policy
Stevenson, David (Taylor & Francis, 2013-06)Increasing cultural engagement is one of the Scottish Government's 50 national indicators, and non-participation is seen as a problem that should be addressed. However, what is not questioned is the extent to which this ... -
An exploratory study of postmodern consumer culture behaviours within the cultural events industry in Glasgow.
Unknown author (Queen Margaret University, 2016)This dissertation explores postmodern consumer culture behaviours within the cultural events industry in Glasgow. The study of consumption behaviours within a cultural events context is important to the events management ...