Narrative, identity, and the map of cultural policy : once upon a time in a globalized world / Constance DeVereaux, Martin Griffin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

DeVereaux, Constance.

Contributor:

Griffin, Martin, 1956-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Narration (Rhetoric)--Social aspects.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Narration (Rhetoric)--Political aspects.

Cultural policy.

Transnationalism.

Globalization.

Nationalism and historiography.

Storytelling--Social aspects.

Storytelling.

Storytelling--Political aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 184 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the 21st century arts and cultural policies are global as well as local. This can lead to merging and clashing of identities in a way not always easily resolvable by culture and policy. This book looks at the role of narrative as the key to understanding cultural politics and identity deployed in the present but with deep roots in the past. The story of arts and cultural policy in the twenty-first century is inherently of global concern no matter how local it seems. At the same time, questions of identity have in many ways become more challenging than before. Narrative, Identity, and the Map of Cultural Policy: Once Upon a Time in a Globalized World explores how and why stories and identities sometimes merge and often clash in an arena in which culture and policy may not be able to resolve every difficulty. DeVereaux and Griffin argue that the role of narrative is key to understanding these issues. They offer a wide-ranging history and justification for narrative frameworks as an approach to cultural policy and open up a wider field of discussion about the ways in which cultural politics and cultural identity are being deployed and interpreted in the present, with deep roots in the past. This timely book will be of great interest not just to students of narrative and students of arts and cultural policy, but also to administrators, policy theorists, and cultural management practitioners.

Contents:

Tales of transnationalism and globalization

History, transitions, and frameworks for analysis

Case studies : stories in conflict or dialogues of the deaf

Narratives, nonsense, and the roots of understanding

Identity, borders, and narrative ironies

Cultural citizenship, narrative, and transnationalism.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-315-59730-6

1-317-09043-8

1-317-09042-X

1-4094-2547-9

9781315597300

OCLC:

859161992