Cultural intermediaries connecting communities : revisiting approaches to cultural engagement /
"Based on a four-year research project which highlights the important role of community organisations as intermediaries between community and culture, this book analyses the role played by cultural intermediaries who seek to mitigate the worst effects of social exclusion through engaging commun...
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Policy Press,
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Publisher Address: | Bristol : |
Publication Dates: | 2019. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
Series: |
Connected communities
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Summary: |
"Based on a four-year research project which highlights the important role of community organisations as intermediaries between community and culture, this book analyses the role played by cultural intermediaries who seek to mitigate the worst effects of social exclusion through engaging communities with different forms of cultural consumption and production. The authors challenge policy makers who see cultural intermediation as an inexpensive fix to social problems and explore the difficulty for intermediaries to rapidly adapt their activity to the changing public-sector landscape and offer alternative frameworks for future practice"-- |
Carrier Form: | xv, 236 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: |
9781447345015 1447345010 9781447344995 1447344995 |
Index Number: | HM766 |
CLC: | C912.2 |
Call Number: | C912.2/C968-1 |
Contents: |
The creative economy, the creative class and cultural intermediation / Mapping cultural intermediaries / Lisa De Propris -- Towards cultural ecologies: why urban cultural policy must embrace multiple cultural agendas / State-sponsored amateurism: cultural intermediation, participation and non-professional production / Governing the creative city: the practice, value and effectiveness of cultural intermediation / Participatory budgeting for culture: handing power to communities? / Intervention: Balsall Heath legends / Screening films for social change: origins, aims and evolution of the Bristol Radical Film Festival / Engineering cohesion: a reflection on academic practice in a community-based setting / Intervention: Force deep / Strategies for overcoming research obstacles: developing the 'Ordsall method' as a process for ethnographically informed impact in communities / Intervention: street art, faith and cultural engagement / From the inside: reflections on cultural intermediation / |