L England
Biographic Data
| ID | 17238 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L England |
| GIVEN NAMES | L |
| FAMILY NAME | England |
| SIGNATURE | ENGLAND L |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4016-2923 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 107 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Cultural policy and urban cultural infrastructure beyond the creative city
This special issue showcases interdisciplinary research on the changing conditions, policies and practices of urban cultural infrastructure, offering new insights into the relationship between art, culture, policy and urban development. The collection of research articles offers empirical consideration and theoretical reflection on what might be considered an ‘infrastructural turn’ within urban and cultural policy studies that challenges previous…
Re-Defining Fashion Cities: African Fashion Designers Between Local and Global Networks
Studying and defining fashion cities has so far shied away from discussing the unbalanced, predefined, and top-down template that the Global North’s leading fashion capitals impose on the Global South’s emerging fashion cities. Focusing on fashion designers in two emerging African fashion hubs, Nairobi and Lagos, this article builds on calls for decolonizing fashion studies and extends this call to the global cartography of fashion and its capita…
Locating the creative and entrepreneurial knowledge of African fashion designers: Embedded Diversity, Adaptation and Leadership Potential
From the perspective of independent fashion designers working in Lagos and Nairobi, this paper presents a critical perspective on the locations and sources of knowledge and creativity in fashion. Building on ‘ex-centric’ fashion economy literature and drawing from interviews with 23 fashion designers in Lagos and Nairobi, we explore the ways in which diverse local, intra-African and extra-African inspiration and knowledge are combined and adapted…
Tensions and duality in developing a circular fashion economy in Kenya
This paper critically considers the circular economy in the Kenyan fashion industry context, addressing structural and geographical hierarchies and inequalities in the conceptualisation of the circular economy and its associated practices in fashion. From the perspective of fashion designers, it highlights specific geopolitical and geo-economic tensions between local cultural foundations of ‘circular’ fashion and the impact of global market force…
Crafting professionals: Entrepreneurial strategies for making a living through passionate work
Early-career crafts graduates often face a perceived dilemma, that of balancing passionate work with their need to make a living. This paper explores the negotiation undertaken by early-career crafts graduates and the entrepreneurial strategies they adopted which variably combine the logics of passion and economics. The paper draws on qualitative interviews with 25 early career crafts graduates in England conducted in 2018. Five strategies -suppo…
Crafting professionals: Logics of professional development in craft higher education
This article explores how the presence of competing logics in craft higher education (HE) influences educational provision and student experience. Findings are presented from four craft HE case studies across England, including analysis of degree programme specifications and module curricula and interviews with educators, current students and recent graduates conducted in 2018. The article presents how these logics influence employability-focused…
Rethinking creative freelancers and structures of care in cultural policy and organisational practice: A case study of Dundee during the Covid-19 pandemic
This article seeks to reposition freelance creative and cultural workers (CCWs) and conditions of creative work as the foundations of cultural policy making. Using a case study of Dundee, Scotland, in the immediate aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic, the article draws on focus groups and interviews with creative freelancers, representatives of cultural organisations and members of a cultural strategy development group in Dundee. It presents how f…
Connecting craft, design and the wood industry in South Tyrol: From clusters to creative ecosystem
Craft work provides unique opportunities to understand connections between artisanal production, innovative design and industrial manufacturing. It also enables us to reflect on the limits of existing research on creative clusters and industry spillovers and variety which misses important connections between the local industrial base, traditional cultural production, and design and innovation-led creative and cultural industries (CCIs). This is p…
Gendered Obstacles in Contemporary Art: The Art Market, Motherhood and Invisible Ecologies
This article addresses issues of gender inequality in the UK’s contemporary art sector. It combines quantitative data on shifts in gender representation from over a hundred commercial contemporary art galleries in London in 2016, 2019 and 2022 with qualitative interviews with leading gallery directors. The research seeks to uncover structural inequalities in the commercial art sector which continue to create obstacles for female artists. In parti…
Cultural Industries and the Environmental Crisis
Access and diversity in South African craft and design: The work of craft intermediaries in Cape Town
Creative intermediaries are increasingly recognised for their role in facilitating the growth and development of creative entrepreneurs and creative and cultural industries. There is also a growing interest in the role of creative and cultural industries in developing economies, for economic development but also cultural engagement and social change. In this article, we bring a Global South perspective to the study of creative intermediaries in t…
Crafting professionals: Skills and resources for graduates entering the craft economy
There is growing interest in creative graduate skillsets, but so far there has been limited investigation of the specific skills and resource requirements of early-career crafts graduates. Drawing on qualitative interviews and quantitative rankings of skills and resources conducted with 25 graduates from four higher education providers in England, this article examines the role and relative priority of different skills and resources in establishi…
Africa Fashion Futures: Creative economies, global networks and local development
This article reviews existing literature and approaches to the current study of fashion and economic development to rethink the interconnection between creative producers and global production and trade networks in relation to sustainable local development. Focusing on the work of independent fashion designers on the African continent, we first consider their positioning as cultural (micro) entrepreneurs and drivers of economic development. Next,…
Creative and cultural work without filters: Covid-19 and exposed precarity in the creative economy
The precarious nature of creative and cultural work is widely acknowledged in academic literature. However, it has often been invisible in the eyes of policy and policymaking. As soon as the spread of Covid-19 started impacting local and national economies across the globe, many industry and policy bodies rushed into researching the impact of Covid-19 on the creative and cultural industries (CCIs) and the workers in the sector. The paper offers a…
Creative clusters and the evolution of knowledge and skills: From industrial to creative glassmaking
W. E. B. Du Bois: Reform, Will, and the Veil
Journal Article W. E. B. Du Bois: Reform, Will, and the Veil Get access Lynn England, Lynn England Utah Valley University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar W. Keith Warner W. Keith Warner Brigham Young University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 91, Issue 3, March 2013, Pages 955–973, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/sos188 Published: 0…
Creative and cultural work without filters: Covid-19 and exposed precarity in the creative economy
The precarious nature of creative and cultural work is widely acknowledged in academic literature. However, it has often been invisible in the eyes of policy and policymaking. As soon as the spread of Covid-19 started impacting local and national economies across the globe, many industry and policy bodies rushed into researching the impact of Covid-19 on the creative and cultural industries (CCIs) and the workers in the sector. The paper offers a…
Creative clusters and the evolution of knowledge and skills: From industrial to creative glassmaking
Connecting craft, design and the wood industry in South Tyrol: From clusters to creative ecosystem
Craft work provides unique opportunities to understand connections between artisanal production, innovative design and industrial manufacturing. It also enables us to reflect on the limits of existing research on creative clusters and industry spillovers and variety which misses important connections between the local industrial base, traditional cultural production, and design and innovation-led creative and cultural industries (CCIs). This is p…
Access and diversity in South African craft and design: The work of craft intermediaries in Cape Town
Creative intermediaries are increasingly recognised for their role in facilitating the growth and development of creative entrepreneurs and creative and cultural industries. There is also a growing interest in the role of creative and cultural industries in developing economies, for economic development but also cultural engagement and social change. In this article, we bring a Global South perspective to the study of creative intermediaries in t…
Tensions and duality in developing a circular fashion economy in Kenya
This paper critically considers the circular economy in the Kenyan fashion industry context, addressing structural and geographical hierarchies and inequalities in the conceptualisation of the circular economy and its associated practices in fashion. From the perspective of fashion designers, it highlights specific geopolitical and geo-economic tensions between local cultural foundations of ‘circular’ fashion and the impact of global market force…
Rethinking creative freelancers and structures of care in cultural policy and organisational practice: A case study of Dundee during the Covid-19 pandemic
This article seeks to reposition freelance creative and cultural workers (CCWs) and conditions of creative work as the foundations of cultural policy making. Using a case study of Dundee, Scotland, in the immediate aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic, the article draws on focus groups and interviews with creative freelancers, representatives of cultural organisations and members of a cultural strategy development group in Dundee. It presents how f…
Africa Fashion Futures: Creative economies, global networks and local development
This article reviews existing literature and approaches to the current study of fashion and economic development to rethink the interconnection between creative producers and global production and trade networks in relation to sustainable local development. Focusing on the work of independent fashion designers on the African continent, we first consider their positioning as cultural (micro) entrepreneurs and drivers of economic development. Next,…
Re-Defining Fashion Cities: African Fashion Designers Between Local and Global Networks
Studying and defining fashion cities has so far shied away from discussing the unbalanced, predefined, and top-down template that the Global North’s leading fashion capitals impose on the Global South’s emerging fashion cities. Focusing on fashion designers in two emerging African fashion hubs, Nairobi and Lagos, this article builds on calls for decolonizing fashion studies and extends this call to the global cartography of fashion and its capita…
W. E. B. Du Bois: Reform, Will, and the Veil
Journal Article W. E. B. Du Bois: Reform, Will, and the Veil Get access Lynn England, Lynn England Utah Valley University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar W. Keith Warner W. Keith Warner Brigham Young University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 91, Issue 3, March 2013, Pages 955–973, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/sos188 Published: 0…
Creative clusters and the evolution of knowledge and skills: From industrial to creative glassmaking
Creative and cultural work without filters: Covid-19 and exposed precarity in the creative economy
The precarious nature of creative and cultural work is widely acknowledged in academic literature. However, it has often been invisible in the eyes of policy and policymaking. As soon as the spread of Covid-19 started impacting local and national economies across the globe, many industry and policy bodies rushed into researching the impact of Covid-19 on the creative and cultural industries (CCIs) and the workers in the sector. The paper offers a…
Africa Fashion Futures: Creative economies, global networks and local development
This article reviews existing literature and approaches to the current study of fashion and economic development to rethink the interconnection between creative producers and global production and trade networks in relation to sustainable local development. Focusing on the work of independent fashion designers on the African continent, we first consider their positioning as cultural (micro) entrepreneurs and drivers of economic development. Next,…
Gendered Obstacles in Contemporary Art: The Art Market, Motherhood and Invisible Ecologies
This article addresses issues of gender inequality in the UK’s contemporary art sector. It combines quantitative data on shifts in gender representation from over a hundred commercial contemporary art galleries in London in 2016, 2019 and 2022 with qualitative interviews with leading gallery directors. The research seeks to uncover structural inequalities in the commercial art sector which continue to create obstacles for female artists. In parti…
Cultural Industries and the Environmental Crisis
Access and diversity in South African craft and design: The work of craft intermediaries in Cape Town
Creative intermediaries are increasingly recognised for their role in facilitating the growth and development of creative entrepreneurs and creative and cultural industries. There is also a growing interest in the role of creative and cultural industries in developing economies, for economic development but also cultural engagement and social change. In this article, we bring a Global South perspective to the study of creative intermediaries in t…
Crafting professionals: Skills and resources for graduates entering the craft economy
There is growing interest in creative graduate skillsets, but so far there has been limited investigation of the specific skills and resource requirements of early-career crafts graduates. Drawing on qualitative interviews and quantitative rankings of skills and resources conducted with 25 graduates from four higher education providers in England, this article examines the role and relative priority of different skills and resources in establishi…
Crafting professionals: Entrepreneurial strategies for making a living through passionate work
Early-career crafts graduates often face a perceived dilemma, that of balancing passionate work with their need to make a living. This paper explores the negotiation undertaken by early-career crafts graduates and the entrepreneurial strategies they adopted which variably combine the logics of passion and economics. The paper draws on qualitative interviews with 25 early career crafts graduates in England conducted in 2018. Five strategies -suppo…
Crafting professionals: Logics of professional development in craft higher education
This article explores how the presence of competing logics in craft higher education (HE) influences educational provision and student experience. Findings are presented from four craft HE case studies across England, including analysis of degree programme specifications and module curricula and interviews with educators, current students and recent graduates conducted in 2018. The article presents how these logics influence employability-focused…
Rethinking creative freelancers and structures of care in cultural policy and organisational practice: A case study of Dundee during the Covid-19 pandemic
This article seeks to reposition freelance creative and cultural workers (CCWs) and conditions of creative work as the foundations of cultural policy making. Using a case study of Dundee, Scotland, in the immediate aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic, the article draws on focus groups and interviews with creative freelancers, representatives of cultural organisations and members of a cultural strategy development group in Dundee. It presents how f…
Connecting craft, design and the wood industry in South Tyrol: From clusters to creative ecosystem
Craft work provides unique opportunities to understand connections between artisanal production, innovative design and industrial manufacturing. It also enables us to reflect on the limits of existing research on creative clusters and industry spillovers and variety which misses important connections between the local industrial base, traditional cultural production, and design and innovation-led creative and cultural industries (CCIs). This is p…
Tensions and duality in developing a circular fashion economy in Kenya
This paper critically considers the circular economy in the Kenyan fashion industry context, addressing structural and geographical hierarchies and inequalities in the conceptualisation of the circular economy and its associated practices in fashion. From the perspective of fashion designers, it highlights specific geopolitical and geo-economic tensions between local cultural foundations of ‘circular’ fashion and the impact of global market force…
Re-Defining Fashion Cities: African Fashion Designers Between Local and Global Networks
Studying and defining fashion cities has so far shied away from discussing the unbalanced, predefined, and top-down template that the Global North’s leading fashion capitals impose on the Global South’s emerging fashion cities. Focusing on fashion designers in two emerging African fashion hubs, Nairobi and Lagos, this article builds on calls for decolonizing fashion studies and extends this call to the global cartography of fashion and its capita…
Locating the creative and entrepreneurial knowledge of African fashion designers: Embedded Diversity, Adaptation and Leadership Potential
From the perspective of independent fashion designers working in Lagos and Nairobi, this paper presents a critical perspective on the locations and sources of knowledge and creativity in fashion. Building on ‘ex-centric’ fashion economy literature and drawing from interviews with 23 fashion designers in Lagos and Nairobi, we explore the ways in which diverse local, intra-African and extra-African inspiration and knowledge are combined and adapted…
Cultural policy and urban cultural infrastructure beyond the creative city
This special issue showcases interdisciplinary research on the changing conditions, policies and practices of urban cultural infrastructure, offering new insights into the relationship between art, culture, policy and urban development. The collection of research articles offers empirical consideration and theoretical reflection on what might be considered an ‘infrastructural turn’ within urban and cultural policy studies that challenges previous…
Cultural Industries and Urban Development (13 works) · Political science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Business (8 works) · Crafts, Textile, and Design (7 works) · Geography (7 works) · Craft (6 works) · Economics (6 works) · Economic geography (5 works) · Engineering (5 works)