Mile
Biographic Data
| ID | 19612 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mile |
| FAMILY NAME | Mile |
| SIGNATURE | MILE |
| AFFILIATIONS | Manchester Metropolitan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3317-1151 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 308 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1959 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Theory as imagination
George Ritzer is a capturer of the sociological imagination. His skill as a social theorist lies in bringing complex issues to life in ways that lead his readers to want to relate their understanding to their own lives. The subtitle to Ritzer's seminal book, ‘The McDonaldization of Society’ neatly summarizes what Ritzer manages to achieve in his theory that others have not, namely, to ‘investigate the changing character of contemporary social lif…
Reimagining the cultural impact of neoliberalism
Biennials are one of the most important stagers of contemporary art practices serving as spaces of reflexivity for artistic production, compressing a glocal sphere, offering a culturally inclusive debate. They play a key role in the global transformation of cultural production in a neoliberal age. Based on empirical data collected from the 15th Istanbul and 10th Liverpool biennials, this paper seeks to interrogate the role they play in the relati…
Culture-Led Urban Regeneration
1. Introduction Processes 2. Interruptions: Testing the Rhetoric of Culturally-Led Urban Development 3. Urban Designscapes and the Production of Aesthetic Consent 4. 'Our Tyne': Iconic Regeneration and the Revitalisation of Identity in Newcastle/Gateshead 5. Deconstructing the City of Culture: The Long Term Cultural Legacies of Glasgow 1990 6. Art Festivals and the City 7. The Global Cultural City?: Spatial Imagineering and Politics in the (Multi…
Consuming culture-led regeneration
The role of culture in the reinvention of the post-industrial city has long fascinated urban scholars. Ronan Paddison made contributions to this debate at a time when culture had become something of a strategic orthodoxy. This paper reflects upon the emergence of the so-called creative city and its relationship to broader processes of commodification. It contends that this creativity discourse embellished a partial version of the city as a symbol…
Shopping
Shopping is sociologically significant because on the surface it appears to be such a trivial activity. It is through shopping that we construct our “consumer selves” and thus play out the everyday relationship between structure and agency. Shopping is thus an ideological activity, as perhaps best demonstrated by the rise of the shopping mall in which the divisive nature of the consumer society is camouflaged. The way in which shopping has change…
What About Us? Exploring the Challenges and Sources of Support Influencing Black Students' STEM Identity Development in Postsecondary Education
Nickolaus A. Ortiz, Terrell R. Morton, Monica L. Miles, ReAnna S. Roby, What About Us? Exploring the Challenges and Sources of Support Influencing Black Students’ STEM Identity Development in Postsecondary Education, The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 88, No. 3 (Summer 2019), pp. 311-326
Immersive narratives of ‘self-work’ in an experience society
Commentators have long argued that cruise ship tourism is a highly rationalised form of mass consumption, a ‘total institution’ in which consumption defines and controls the individual’s experience. Arguing that this represents a simplification, this article suggests that a closer analysis of cruise tourism tells us something profound about the nature of what it means to be a consumer in a de-territorialised age. Specifically, the article explore…
Beyond a Boundary
Beyond a Boundary:Black Lives and the Settler-Native Divide Tiya Miles (bio) What do we do with the black "settler"? Or rather, what do we do with the more than one hundred thousand African Americans who moved north and west onto violated and usurped Indigenous lands in the nineteenth century?1 We have sidestepped this question in studies of the American Midwest and West even as settler colonial frameworks of analysis have reshaped Native America…
The changing nature of consumption and the intensification of McDonaldization in the digital age
In this article, we re-examine the McDonaldization thesis in light of social changes that occurred since the 1990s and notably in light of the onset of digital forms of consumption. The argument is presented that while the theory of McDonaldization remains profoundly relevant to the consumption of bricks-and-mortar locales, it is even more applicable in the digital age, as well as “bricks-and-clicks” consumption sites. The ways in which McDonaldi…
What clothes should leisure research wear
The relationship between leisure and consumption, the broader context within which the relationship between leisure and dress must be understood, did not really become a serious topic of social scientific investigation until the late twentieth century.It was at that point that the realization was made that what people consumed was as worthy of critical interrogation as what they produced.Since that time, the world of consumption has endured at le…
Young People, Consumer Citizenship and Protest
This article critically interrogates the assumption that young people operate at the ‘cutting edge’ of social change. Arguing that the ideological impact of consumption on young people’s everyday lives is such that young people are almost obliged to reinforce the status quo rather than to undermine it, the article considers the impact of young people’s status as consumer citizens. Using the London riots of 2011 riots as a means of briefly reflect…
Young people, ‘flawed protestors’ and the commodification of resistance
In seeking to understand the nature of the struggle represented by the UK riots of 2011 (in which half of all crimes during the disorder were against commercial premises), this article critically considers Bauman's (2011) contention that these were the riots of defective and disqualified consumers. It reflects on how far youth resistance is, and arguably always has been, constituted around the ability – or otherwise – to consume. The concern here…
The Beijing Olympics
Debates around the cultural significance of the Beijing Olympics have tended to focus on the role of the Games as a demonstration of ‘soft power’; as a means of announcing the arrival of the China on a global economic and cultural stage. But this argument may camouflage a more profound sociological change that was engendered by the Games: namely, its role in hastening the emergence of a consumer society in China. The argument here is that althoug…
The neoliberal city and the pro-active complicity of the citizen consumer
This article is concerned with the role consumption plays in the neoliberal reinvention of the post-industrial city. Neoliberalism, as imposed for example through the orthodoxy of the creative city, continues to have profound implications for the everyday nature of city life. Above all, perhaps, this orthodoxy has created a city that is increasingly defined by elites through and by consumption. In this context cities appear to have become increas…
The post-revolutionary consumer generation
Since the collapse of the communist regime in the former Czechoslovakia in 1989, there has been an increasing recognition that the experience of young people in the Czech Republic offers a useful indicator of changing social, cultural and political trends. Although drawing upon theories of risk and individualization, social scientific research on the “post-revolutionary” Czech generation has tended to focus on unemployment, education, generationa…
Cultural policy as rhetoric and reality
Any understanding of the relationship between place and cultural policy has largely been lost as part of a rhetorical critique of a neo-liberal regeneration which has, in turn, undermined the disciplinary basis of cultural policy. This has had particular consequences for our understanding of the impact of cultural policy in the peripheral north of England. Despite the political realities of geographical peripherality that still persist today, the…
New perspectives on the role of cultural intermediaries in social inclusion in the UK
Based on interviews with arts administrators responsible for addressing targeted groups labelled “socially excluded,” this paper highlights new understandings of the term “cultural intermediary” (Featherstone 1991; Bourdieu 2000) within art galleries and art centres. It considers the unique role of such figures in crossing the exclusion/inclusion boundary within the arts and developing more personal approaches to marketing activities in their ins…
Imperial Discourse, Regional Elite, and Local Landscape on the South China Frontier, 1577-1722
This article describes the consolidation of imperial control and the increase of regional migration on China's southern frontier from 1577 to 1722. After a large-scale military campaign, the Ming state created two neighboring counties in a mountainous area of Guangdong province that had previously been dominated by an unregistered, unsettled, and unruly segment of the population. The Chinese literati elite residing in the more settled and commerc…
Different journeys at different speeds’
Young people's experience of education in a ‘risk society’ is characterised by a terrain of ‘initiative overload’ which appears to make the routes through which young people are seeking to plot a path evermore perilous. This article is concerned with the impact of creative learning on young people, as represented by the UK Government's initiative Creative Partnerships in Durham Sunderland. The article considers the degree to which creative learni…
Feeling 10 feet tall
This paper explores the potential role of creative learning in helping to create positive experiences for socially excluded young people. Noting the increased influence of the market into education and the onus engendered in the ‘Third Way’, which seeks to give socially and economically marginal individuals the opportunity to adapt to changing economic conditions, while neglecting the underlying causes of exclusion, the paper focuses on a group o…
Strange Encounters on the Cantonese Frontier
This article analyzes Chiya, a short text produced in the 1630s that describes the southwestern province of Guangxi. In assessing the motivations of the author, Kuang Lu, this article takes a number of perspectives related to region and gender. Kuang was a pioneering Cantonese travel writer who visited Guangxi under unusual circumstances. He describes in exotic and fantastical terms an area largely inhabited by indigenous peoples that was neverth…
Introduction
Our Tyne
The landscape of the north-east of England, both urban and rural, is perhaps most notable as a deindustrialised landscape. Indeed, the world in which we live is determined as much by what it was as by what it is. Perhaps this is no more evident than in the case of NewcastleGateshead which is often portrayed as an exemplar of the revitalising benefits of culture-led regeneration. The, as yet unproven, success of NewcastleGateshead Quayside is foun…
Understanding the Cultural 'Case
Dans cet article, l'interese a la regeneration urbaine en Grande-Bretagne. l'A analyse ici les resultats d'un etude longitudinale de 10 ans dans le secteur de NewcastleGateshead Quayside et sa production culturelle et artistique. Il est question de l'importance de la situation de la desindustrialisation d'une region qui laise la place a une exclusion sociale forte basee sur les vestiges de classe et d'identite sociale. Avec la regeneration urbain…
Young people, dance and the sub-cultural consumption of drugs
This article discusses the role of drug consumption in the lives of young ‘clubbers’. Arguing that debates over the consumption of drugs and youth transitions both serve to ‘problematise’ young people the suggestion is made that the role of drug consumption in dance-related settings remains largely misunderstood. As such, the article discusses qualitative data that taps into the nature of drug consumption in the pre, in and post-clubbing experien…
Introduction
Culture‐led Urban Regeneration and the Revitalisation of Identities in Newcastle, Gateshead and the North East of England
The rhetoric of the cultural policy dimension of culture‐led regeneration makes a variety of assumptions concerned with the democratisation of culture and the empowerment of local communities. In this article, we ask whether there are alternative paradigms that might offer different connections to other drivers of regeneration in the social and economic fields. The article suggests that successful culture‐led regeneration is not about a trickle‐d…
Fitting In and Sticking Out’
The impact of consumption on the construction of identities is emerging as a key concern of social theory. Despite this, little progress has been made towards developing an understanding of the actual everyday contexts in which young people consume and what implications these contexts have for the construction of their identities. The data considered were generated from a Consumer Meanings Questionnaire as part of a triangulated research project …
Our Tyne
The landscape of the north-east of England, both urban and rural, is perhaps most notable as a deindustrialised landscape. Indeed, the world in which we live is determined as much by what it was as by what it is. Perhaps this is no more evident than in the case of NewcastleGateshead which is often portrayed as an exemplar of the revitalising benefits of culture-led regeneration. The, as yet unproven, success of NewcastleGateshead Quayside is foun…
The changing nature of consumption and the intensification of McDonaldization in the digital age
In this article, we re-examine the McDonaldization thesis in light of social changes that occurred since the 1990s and notably in light of the onset of digital forms of consumption. The argument is presented that while the theory of McDonaldization remains profoundly relevant to the consumption of bricks-and-mortar locales, it is even more applicable in the digital age, as well as “bricks-and-clicks” consumption sites. The ways in which McDonaldi…
New perspectives on the role of cultural intermediaries in social inclusion in the UK
Based on interviews with arts administrators responsible for addressing targeted groups labelled “socially excluded,” this paper highlights new understandings of the term “cultural intermediary” (Featherstone 1991; Bourdieu 2000) within art galleries and art centres. It considers the unique role of such figures in crossing the exclusion/inclusion boundary within the arts and developing more personal approaches to marketing activities in their ins…
The Cultural Capital of Consumption
Arguing that psychology has failed to come to terms with the cultural context within which identities are established, this paper focuses on consumption as a means of identity formation in a 'postmodern' culture. It is suggested that the impact of consumption upon contemporary identities might be better understood by focusing upon the meanings with which young consumers endow consumer goods. In particular, data obtained through a participant obse…
What About Us? Exploring the Challenges and Sources of Support Influencing Black Students' STEM Identity Development in Postsecondary Education
Nickolaus A. Ortiz, Terrell R. Morton, Monica L. Miles, ReAnna S. Roby, What About Us? Exploring the Challenges and Sources of Support Influencing Black Students’ STEM Identity Development in Postsecondary Education, The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 88, No. 3 (Summer 2019), pp. 311-326
Cultural policy as rhetoric and reality
Any understanding of the relationship between place and cultural policy has largely been lost as part of a rhetorical critique of a neo-liberal regeneration which has, in turn, undermined the disciplinary basis of cultural policy. This has had particular consequences for our understanding of the impact of cultural policy in the peripheral north of England. Despite the political realities of geographical peripherality that still persist today, the…
The neoliberal city and the pro-active complicity of the citizen consumer
This article is concerned with the role consumption plays in the neoliberal reinvention of the post-industrial city. Neoliberalism, as imposed for example through the orthodoxy of the creative city, continues to have profound implications for the everyday nature of city life. Above all, perhaps, this orthodoxy has created a city that is increasingly defined by elites through and by consumption. In this context cities appear to have become increas…
Young People, Consumer Citizenship and Protest
This article critically interrogates the assumption that young people operate at the ‘cutting edge’ of social change. Arguing that the ideological impact of consumption on young people’s everyday lives is such that young people are almost obliged to reinforce the status quo rather than to undermine it, the article considers the impact of young people’s status as consumer citizens. Using the London riots of 2011 riots as a means of briefly reflect…
Understanding the Cultural 'Case
Dans cet article, l'interese a la regeneration urbaine en Grande-Bretagne. l'A analyse ici les resultats d'un etude longitudinale de 10 ans dans le secteur de NewcastleGateshead Quayside et sa production culturelle et artistique. Il est question de l'importance de la situation de la desindustrialisation d'une region qui laise la place a une exclusion sociale forte basee sur les vestiges de classe et d'identite sociale. Avec la regeneration urbain…
Beyond a Boundary
Beyond a Boundary:Black Lives and the Settler-Native Divide Tiya Miles (bio) What do we do with the black "settler"? Or rather, what do we do with the more than one hundred thousand African Americans who moved north and west onto violated and usurped Indigenous lands in the nineteenth century?1 We have sidestepped this question in studies of the American Midwest and West even as settler colonial frameworks of analysis have reshaped Native America…
The post-revolutionary consumer generation
Since the collapse of the communist regime in the former Czechoslovakia in 1989, there has been an increasing recognition that the experience of young people in the Czech Republic offers a useful indicator of changing social, cultural and political trends. Although drawing upon theories of risk and individualization, social scientific research on the “post-revolutionary” Czech generation has tended to focus on unemployment, education, generationa…
Urban Consumption
Consuming culture-led regeneration
The role of culture in the reinvention of the post-industrial city has long fascinated urban scholars. Ronan Paddison made contributions to this debate at a time when culture had become something of a strategic orthodoxy. This paper reflects upon the emergence of the so-called creative city and its relationship to broader processes of commodification. It contends that this creativity discourse embellished a partial version of the city as a symbol…
Immersive narratives of ‘self-work’ in an experience society
Commentators have long argued that cruise ship tourism is a highly rationalised form of mass consumption, a ‘total institution’ in which consumption defines and controls the individual’s experience. Arguing that this represents a simplification, this article suggests that a closer analysis of cruise tourism tells us something profound about the nature of what it means to be a consumer in a de-territorialised age. Specifically, the article explore…
Different journeys at different speeds’
Young people's experience of education in a ‘risk society’ is characterised by a terrain of ‘initiative overload’ which appears to make the routes through which young people are seeking to plot a path evermore perilous. This article is concerned with the impact of creative learning on young people, as represented by the UK Government's initiative Creative Partnerships in Durham Sunderland. The article considers the degree to which creative learni…
Newcastle Gateshead Quayside
The news that, in the aftermath of the bidding process for the UK's representative for the European Capital of Culture in 2008, the UR government is investing 15 million [pounds sterling] in the Urban Cultural programme, raises some key issues about the way we think about culture and, in particular, about urban culture, as a source of resistance to globalisation. There is always an overwhelming temptation to conceive of identity and resistance in…
The Consuming Paradox
One building casts a broader shadow, darkens more with its penumbra, than any other. It rises at the city ’ s heart, immense and squat and square. Visible for miles around, it would seem to be the sole rea-son for which the houses and tower blocks and factories and warehouses around it exist The building has seven ̄ oors, and each ̄ oor is fourteen metres high. Its sides are just over two and a half kilometres long, so that it sits on seven milli…
Young people, ‘flawed protestors’ and the commodification of resistance
In seeking to understand the nature of the struggle represented by the UK riots of 2011 (in which half of all crimes during the disorder were against commercial premises), this article critically considers Bauman's (2011) contention that these were the riots of defective and disqualified consumers. It reflects on how far youth resistance is, and arguably always has been, constituted around the ability – or otherwise – to consume. The concern here…
The Beijing Olympics
Debates around the cultural significance of the Beijing Olympics have tended to focus on the role of the Games as a demonstration of ‘soft power’; as a means of announcing the arrival of the China on a global economic and cultural stage. But this argument may camouflage a more profound sociological change that was engendered by the Games: namely, its role in hastening the emergence of a consumer society in China. The argument here is that althoug…
A pluralistic seduction? Post-modern consumer research at the crossroads
This paper suggests that the trend towards the conceptualisation of ‘post‐modern’ forms of consumption threatens the very basis of research into consumption and consumers. Arguing that although a fascination with the symbolic aspects of consumption has much to offer, the suggestion here is that the future of consumer research is potentially undermined by a preoccupation with post‐modern rhetoric which has in turn tended to divert consumer researc…
What clothes should leisure research wear
The relationship between leisure and consumption, the broader context within which the relationship between leisure and dress must be understood, did not really become a serious topic of social scientific investigation until the late twentieth century.It was at that point that the realization was made that what people consumed was as worthy of critical interrogation as what they produced.Since that time, the world of consumption has endured at le…
Feeling 10 feet tall
This paper explores the potential role of creative learning in helping to create positive experiences for socially excluded young people. Noting the increased influence of the market into education and the onus engendered in the ‘Third Way’, which seeks to give socially and economically marginal individuals the opportunity to adapt to changing economic conditions, while neglecting the underlying causes of exclusion, the paper focuses on a group o…
Divining Rod in Manhunt
And the Band Played On
It is no less true of reading than of eating: how things taste is not a perfect measure of nutritive value. So it is with Randy Shilts' engaging, horrifying, although ultimately frustrating book about the early years of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) epidemic in the United States. Shilts, a San Francisco journalist with extensive experience reporting on the San Francisco homosexual community, has amassed an astonishing compendium o…
Association avec les établissements scolaires. Bilan des innovations dans la formation des enseignants en Grande-Bretagne
Les futurs enseignants, en Grande-Bretagne, à l'issue de la licence, suivent pendant un an une préparation au «post graduate Certificate of Education » (PGCE). Vient ensuite une année d'enseignement à l'essai sanctionnée par le « Local Education Authority » ; après, ils entrent pleinement en fonction. Quatre centres de formation au PGCE ont proposé quatre formules nouvelles de formation « centrées sur l'école », rompant avec la formation traditio…
The Cultural Capital of Consumption
Arguing that psychology has failed to come to terms with the cultural context within which identities are established, this paper focuses on consumption as a means of identity formation in a 'postmodern' culture. It is suggested that the impact of consumption upon contemporary identities might be better understood by focusing upon the meanings with which young consumers endow consumer goods. In particular, data obtained through a participant obse…
Consumerism
This text provides an introduction to the historical and theoretical foundations of consumption, and an examination of the experience of consumption in the areas of technology, place fashion, music and sport
Fitting In and Sticking Out’
The impact of consumption on the construction of identities is emerging as a key concern of social theory. Despite this, little progress has been made towards developing an understanding of the actual everyday contexts in which young people consume and what implications these contexts have for the construction of their identities. The data considered were generated from a Consumer Meanings Questionnaire as part of a triangulated research project …
The Consuming Paradox
One building casts a broader shadow, darkens more with its penumbra, than any other. It rises at the city ’ s heart, immense and squat and square. Visible for miles around, it would seem to be the sole rea-son for which the houses and tower blocks and factories and warehouses around it exist The building has seven ̄ oors, and each ̄ oor is fourteen metres high. Its sides are just over two and a half kilometres long, so that it sits on seven milli…
Urban Consumption
A pluralistic seduction? Post-modern consumer research at the crossroads
This paper suggests that the trend towards the conceptualisation of ‘post‐modern’ forms of consumption threatens the very basis of research into consumption and consumers. Arguing that although a fascination with the symbolic aspects of consumption has much to offer, the suggestion here is that the future of consumer research is potentially undermined by a preoccupation with post‐modern rhetoric which has in turn tended to divert consumer researc…
Social Theory in the Real World
The author demonstrates that social theory need not be remote and obscure, but if used in imaginative ways, can be indispensable in challenging our common sense perceptions and understandings
Researching Youth
Written in a clear and accessible style, this book presents a broad ranging enquiry into various methodological issues associated with contemporary youth research. Chapters cover a variety of topical
The Ethical and Social Implications of Exploring African American Genealogies
In June 2002, the University of Minnesota hosted a conference to explore the implications of using genetic technologies and genealogical methods to reconstruct African identity. This paper includes transcribed remarks from that conference by Annette Dula, Marian Gray Secundy and Charmaine Royal
Young people, dance and the sub-cultural consumption of drugs
This article discusses the role of drug consumption in the lives of young ‘clubbers’. Arguing that debates over the consumption of drugs and youth transitions both serve to ‘problematise’ young people the suggestion is made that the role of drug consumption in dance-related settings remains largely misunderstood. As such, the article discusses qualitative data that taps into the nature of drug consumption in the pre, in and post-clubbing experien…
Culture‐led Urban Regeneration and the Revitalisation of Identities in Newcastle, Gateshead and the North East of England
The rhetoric of the cultural policy dimension of culture‐led regeneration makes a variety of assumptions concerned with the democratisation of culture and the empowerment of local communities. In this article, we ask whether there are alternative paradigms that might offer different connections to other drivers of regeneration in the social and economic fields. The article suggests that successful culture‐led regeneration is not about a trickle‐d…
Newcastle Gateshead Quayside
The news that, in the aftermath of the bidding process for the UK's representative for the European Capital of Culture in 2008, the UR government is investing 15 million [pounds sterling] in the Urban Cultural programme, raises some key issues about the way we think about culture and, in particular, about urban culture, as a source of resistance to globalisation. There is always an overwhelming temptation to conceive of identity and resistance in…
Introduction
Our Tyne
The landscape of the north-east of England, both urban and rural, is perhaps most notable as a deindustrialised landscape. Indeed, the world in which we live is determined as much by what it was as by what it is. Perhaps this is no more evident than in the case of NewcastleGateshead which is often portrayed as an exemplar of the revitalising benefits of culture-led regeneration. The, as yet unproven, success of NewcastleGateshead Quayside is foun…
Understanding the Cultural 'Case
Dans cet article, l'interese a la regeneration urbaine en Grande-Bretagne. l'A analyse ici les resultats d'un etude longitudinale de 10 ans dans le secteur de NewcastleGateshead Quayside et sa production culturelle et artistique. Il est question de l'importance de la situation de la desindustrialisation d'une region qui laise la place a une exclusion sociale forte basee sur les vestiges de classe et d'identite sociale. Avec la regeneration urbain…
Strange Encounters on the Cantonese Frontier
This article analyzes Chiya, a short text produced in the 1630s that describes the southwestern province of Guangxi. In assessing the motivations of the author, Kuang Lu, this article takes a number of perspectives related to region and gender. Kuang was a pioneering Cantonese travel writer who visited Guangxi under unusual circumstances. He describes in exotic and fantastical terms an area largely inhabited by indigenous peoples that was neverth…
Different journeys at different speeds’
Young people's experience of education in a ‘risk society’ is characterised by a terrain of ‘initiative overload’ which appears to make the routes through which young people are seeking to plot a path evermore perilous. This article is concerned with the impact of creative learning on young people, as represented by the UK Government's initiative Creative Partnerships in Durham Sunderland. The article considers the degree to which creative learni…
Feeling 10 feet tall
This paper explores the potential role of creative learning in helping to create positive experiences for socially excluded young people. Noting the increased influence of the market into education and the onus engendered in the ‘Third Way’, which seeks to give socially and economically marginal individuals the opportunity to adapt to changing economic conditions, while neglecting the underlying causes of exclusion, the paper focuses on a group o…
Imperial Discourse, Regional Elite, and Local Landscape on the South China Frontier, 1577-1722
This article describes the consolidation of imperial control and the increase of regional migration on China's southern frontier from 1577 to 1722. After a large-scale military campaign, the Ming state created two neighboring counties in a mountainous area of Guangdong province that had previously been dominated by an unregistered, unsettled, and unruly segment of the population. The Chinese literati elite residing in the more settled and commerc…
New perspectives on the role of cultural intermediaries in social inclusion in the UK
Based on interviews with arts administrators responsible for addressing targeted groups labelled “socially excluded,” this paper highlights new understandings of the term “cultural intermediary” (Featherstone 1991; Bourdieu 2000) within art galleries and art centres. It considers the unique role of such figures in crossing the exclusion/inclusion boundary within the arts and developing more personal approaches to marketing activities in their ins…
The post-revolutionary consumer generation
Since the collapse of the communist regime in the former Czechoslovakia in 1989, there has been an increasing recognition that the experience of young people in the Czech Republic offers a useful indicator of changing social, cultural and political trends. Although drawing upon theories of risk and individualization, social scientific research on the “post-revolutionary” Czech generation has tended to focus on unemployment, education, generationa…
Cultural policy as rhetoric and reality
Any understanding of the relationship between place and cultural policy has largely been lost as part of a rhetorical critique of a neo-liberal regeneration which has, in turn, undermined the disciplinary basis of cultural policy. This has had particular consequences for our understanding of the impact of cultural policy in the peripheral north of England. Despite the political realities of geographical peripherality that still persist today, the…
Sociology (33 works) · Political science (29 works) · Social science (22 works) · Law (21 works) · Law (17 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (15 works) · Consumption (sociology (12 works) · Politics (12 works) · Art (11 works) · Aesthetics (10 works)