Cultural intermediaries connecting communities : revisiting approaches to cultural engagement / edited by Phil Jones, Beth Perry and Paul Long.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jones, Phil, editor.

Perry, Beth, editor.

Long, Paul, editor.

Series:

Connected communities (Bristol, England)

Connected communities : creating a new knowledge landscape

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Culture--Study and teaching.

Culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 236 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Bristol, UK : Policy Press, 2019.

Summary:

This book considers the importance of cultural intermediaries, analysing their role as mitigators of the worst effects of social exclusion and examining the necessity to engage communities with different forms of cultural consumption and production.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

List of figures, tables and boxes

Notes on contributors

Acknowledgements

Series editors’ foreword

Introduction: Bringing communities and culture together

Changing contexts

The creative economy, the creative class and cultural intermediation

Mapping cultural intermediaries

Towards cultural ecologies: why urban cultural policy must embrace multiple cultural agendas

State-sponsored amateurism: cultural intermediation, participation and non-professional production

Practices of cultural intermediation

‘An area lacking cultural activity’: researching cultural lives in urban space

Intervention: Some cities

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

Evaluation, impact and methodology

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

Conclusion: Where next for cultural intermediation?

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Apr 2022).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4473-4502-9

1-4473-4504-5

1-4473-4500-2

OCLC:

1103918628