Description
Book SynopsisThis book develops the first integrated, critical-historical examination of the terms, narratives and assumptions constructing present day notions of participation and value, and the relations between them. Histories of Cultural Participation, Values and Governance proposes a radical re-evaluation of these relationships, organized in two inter-related sections, on political discourses of participation and value, and on culture and governance. The essays collected here provide an in-depth historical understanding of the development of definitions, assumptions and beliefs around the nature and value of cultural participation, their place in contemporary cultural governance and exploitation in local socio-economic development strategies. They also bring a novel perspective to current policy, practice and scholarly debates on the connections between culture, place-making and the creative economy. As such, the essays provide vital historical insight that sheds light on contemporar
Table of Contents
1. Introduction; Eleonora Belfiore and Lisanne Gibson.- 2. Towards a History of the Everyday; Andrew Miles.- 3. From ‘access’ to ‘well-being’: policy discourse and ‘buzzwords of participation’; Eleonora Belfiore.- 4. Cultural value, citizenship and the creative economy; Justin O’Connor.- 5. History of Community Arts and Governance; Jane Milling.- 6. The Well-being – Culture relationship: a happy marriage of convenience?; Susan Oman.- 7. Culture and Economy: Governing Place Through Culture; Lisanne Gibson.- 8. Governing Leisure and Heritage?; Mark O’Neill.- 9. Calling participation to account: a recent history of cultural indicators; Catherine Bunting, Abigail Gilmore, Andrew Miles.- 10. Understanding the long history of the creative economy: commerce and the arts in the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, 1781 to the present; Felicity James.- 11. Manaton and East Dartmoor Community Theatre and Dartmoor Wild Swimming: performing place and community in rural England; Kerrie Schaefer.- 12. The history of public parks as cultural policies for everyday participation; Abigail Gilmore and Patrick Doyle.- 13. How has Barnsley’s cultural ecology been shaped?; Sarah Hughes.-
