Histories of cultural participation, values and governance
- Submitting institution
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Loughborough University
- Unit of assessment
- 34 - Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, Library and Information Management
- Output identifier
- 2528
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.1057/978-1-137-55027-9
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN
- 9781137550262
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- The aim of this book is to develop the first integrated, critical-historical examination of the terms, narratives and assumptions constructing present day notions of cultural participation and value, and the relations between them. Through historical analysis of a range of different forms of cultural consumption, and the social and cultural institutions that promoted them, the collection aims to ‘read the present through the past’ by bringing to light the long (and thus far neglected) histories of contemporary debates around cultural participation, and notions of ‘everyday creativity’. The research presented in the book offers a novel perspective on the historical roots of the so-called problem of ‘access’ to opportunities for cultural engagement, which is no closer to being resolved after 75 years of state-driven access policies. The eight chapters present original research from a number of disciplines and methodologies that straddle the humanities/social sciences divide and range from traditional historiographies of different cultural and artistic practices, to methodological enquiries into the history of policy indicators of cultural participation, to histories of arts funding bodies and local urban regeneration strategies. Belfiore’s intellectual contribution was the co-development of a coherent and original intellectual framework for the collection, its translation into a brief for the chapters’ authors, and involvement in the process of peer review and quality control of the submitted chapters. The collection’s intellectual framework, theorised in the co-authored critical introduction, represents a development of the interdisciplinary ‘critical historical approach’ to contemporary cultural policy research pioneered by Belfiore in her earlier work on the social impact of the arts, which gets extended here to the problem of ‘cultural participation’. Belfiore also produced a single-authored chapter on the pre-history of the Arts Council and the institutionalisation of particular forms of cultural authority and value within the British arts funding system.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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