Leila Jancovich
Biographic Data
| ID | 3486169 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leila Jancovich |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leila |
| FAMILY NAME | Jancovich |
| SIGNATURE | JANCOVICH L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0381-1557 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 61 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Negotiating between national and local policy on participation: Local authority arts offices in Ireland
A Failure Framework
This chapter synthesises the findings from our research and introduces a new framework for discussing and evaluating failure in relation to cultural participation projects and policies. In it, we argue for the importance of acknowledging that any given project or policy can succeed or fail in different facets, to different degrees, for different people, and over different timescales. We then offer some thoughts about how the policymaking process …
Histories of Failures
This chapter offers a historical context on the development of cultural participation as a policy “problem” in the UK. Furthermore, it identifies the logic on which policymakers tend to base their cultural participation policies and the assumptions that prevail as a result. Specifically, this chapter looks at the fault lines that have shaped the type of policies, projects, and practices that many cultural agencies see as “necessary” and “appropri…
The Failures of Policy
This chapter examines the purpose of cultural participation policies from the perspective of those who design and deliver them. It considers whether policymakers are open to the possibility of failure, both in terms of those whom they fund but also in relation to their own work and asks whether the context within which they work may support or hinder this openness. Finally, this chapter considers the types of failure that are acknowledged and how…
Failing at the Frontline
This chapter focuses on the type of failures that practitioners most often recognise. It examines the contested meanings of participation not only between policymakers and practitioners but also between different types of practitioners. This chapter considers the levers and barriers in addressing failures of practice and then presents alternative narratives about these failures that may support or challenge those of policymakers. In doing so, thi…
Thinking About Failing
This chapter explores how academic researchers have understood the concept of failure. The chapter focuses on public policy literature to develop an understanding of the relational and contextual nature of success and failure. After a brief discussion on what we can understand by cultural policy and who has a role in its inception and delivery, this chapter considers the ways in which academics have attempted to define what policy failure constit…
Failing the Participant
This chapter focuses on participants; the supposed beneficiary of cultural participation polices. We argue that literature on cultural participation too often overlooks the participants’ narratives. This chapter thus considers how the participant frames their own participation and how they define their success and failure in relation to the work that supports it. It examines this situation both in relation to work that professionals facilitate an…
Cultural Policy is Local: Understanding Cultural Policy as Situated Practice
This collection promotes a greater understanding of ‘the local’ within the ways the arts, culture and creative practices are governed and promoted. This is an open access book.
Failures in Cultural Participation
This OA book examines how and why the UK's policy approach towards increasing cultural participation has failed to address inequality and inequity
Failure seems to be the hardest word to say
Policy interventions, to increase participation, have long been informed by data demonstrating inequity in the subsidised cultural sector. However, it is less clear how evidence is employed to judge success or failure of initiatives to create greater equity. Indeed, quantitative surveys suggest a failure to change patterns of cultural participation. Despite this a large body of evaluation reports celebrate the ‘success’ of participatory projects.…
The “problem” of participation in cultural policy
The need to increase recorded rates of cultural participation has become a recurring trope within cultural policy discourse despite evidence that demonstrates the breadth of people’s everyday participation across a range of cultural and creative practices. This chapter therefore challenges the very the notion of “non-participation” as a “problem” and instead questions the legitimacy of taste hierarchies on which established cultural policy is fou…
Situating the local in global cultural policy
David Stevenson - ORCID 0000-0002-8977-1818 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8977-1818
Rethinking participation in the Aarhus as European Capital of Culture 2017 project
This paper examines the relationship between cultural participation and regional development with reference to the European Capital of Culture in 2017. From the bidding stage, Aarhus 2017 claimed it put “participation” at the heart of its strategic plans, through consultation at roadshows and exhibitions. In addition, it aspired to use culture as a catalyst for development not only in the city of Aarhus but across the region of Central Denmark. T…
Creative people and places – an experiment in place-based funding
There is a long-standing tradition in cultural policy of measuring the numbers of people who take part in subsidized arts practices. The data collected have informed strategies to remove individual barriers to participation, such as price, access or education. But researchers have increasingly challenged the deficit approach that defines non-participation as a ‘problem’, which rests with those not participating rather than with how the cultural s…
The participation myth
Policy rhetoric around strategies to and the value of increasing participation in the arts has been well documented internationally over more than a decade. But in the UK, which is the focus for this article, targets to increase participation have been consistently missed and there remains a direct correlation between those taking part in cultural activity and their socio-economic status. The starting point for this article is to examine the barr…
Developing a foundation for quality guidance for arts organisations and artists in Scotland working in participatory settings – a report commissioned by Creative Scotland
Problematising participation
Great art for everyone? Engagement and participation policy in the arts
New Labour began its administration with a commitment to bring democracy to culture. However, a decade later the Arts Council England (ACE)'s mission statement of “Great art for everyone” suggested a continued emphasis on access to mainstream culture rather than on cultural democracy. The argument in this paper is that Labour's vision has resulted in little change to the basis upon which arts institutions receive regular funding, or the social co…
The participation myth
Policy rhetoric around strategies to and the value of increasing participation in the arts has been well documented internationally over more than a decade. But in the UK, which is the focus for this article, targets to increase participation have been consistently missed and there remains a direct correlation between those taking part in cultural activity and their socio-economic status. The starting point for this article is to examine the barr…
Failures in Cultural Participation
This OA book examines how and why the UK's policy approach towards increasing cultural participation has failed to address inequality and inequity
Great art for everyone? Engagement and participation policy in the arts
New Labour began its administration with a commitment to bring democracy to culture. However, a decade later the Arts Council England (ACE)'s mission statement of “Great art for everyone” suggested a continued emphasis on access to mainstream culture rather than on cultural democracy. The argument in this paper is that Labour's vision has resulted in little change to the basis upon which arts institutions receive regular funding, or the social co…
Problematising participation
Rethinking participation in the Aarhus as European Capital of Culture 2017 project
This paper examines the relationship between cultural participation and regional development with reference to the European Capital of Culture in 2017. From the bidding stage, Aarhus 2017 claimed it put “participation” at the heart of its strategic plans, through consultation at roadshows and exhibitions. In addition, it aspired to use culture as a catalyst for development not only in the city of Aarhus but across the region of Central Denmark. T…
Situating the local in global cultural policy
David Stevenson - ORCID 0000-0002-8977-1818 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8977-1818
Failure seems to be the hardest word to say
Policy interventions, to increase participation, have long been informed by data demonstrating inequity in the subsidised cultural sector. However, it is less clear how evidence is employed to judge success or failure of initiatives to create greater equity. Indeed, quantitative surveys suggest a failure to change patterns of cultural participation. Despite this a large body of evaluation reports celebrate the ‘success’ of participatory projects.…
Negotiating between national and local policy on participation: Local authority arts offices in Ireland
Great art for everyone? Engagement and participation policy in the arts
New Labour began its administration with a commitment to bring democracy to culture. However, a decade later the Arts Council England (ACE)'s mission statement of “Great art for everyone” suggested a continued emphasis on access to mainstream culture rather than on cultural democracy. The argument in this paper is that Labour's vision has resulted in little change to the basis upon which arts institutions receive regular funding, or the social co…
Problematising participation
The participation myth
Policy rhetoric around strategies to and the value of increasing participation in the arts has been well documented internationally over more than a decade. But in the UK, which is the focus for this article, targets to increase participation have been consistently missed and there remains a direct correlation between those taking part in cultural activity and their socio-economic status. The starting point for this article is to examine the barr…
Developing a foundation for quality guidance for arts organisations and artists in Scotland working in participatory settings – a report commissioned by Creative Scotland
Creative people and places – an experiment in place-based funding
There is a long-standing tradition in cultural policy of measuring the numbers of people who take part in subsidized arts practices. The data collected have informed strategies to remove individual barriers to participation, such as price, access or education. But researchers have increasingly challenged the deficit approach that defines non-participation as a ‘problem’, which rests with those not participating rather than with how the cultural s…
Rethinking participation in the Aarhus as European Capital of Culture 2017 project
This paper examines the relationship between cultural participation and regional development with reference to the European Capital of Culture in 2017. From the bidding stage, Aarhus 2017 claimed it put “participation” at the heart of its strategic plans, through consultation at roadshows and exhibitions. In addition, it aspired to use culture as a catalyst for development not only in the city of Aarhus but across the region of Central Denmark. T…
The “problem” of participation in cultural policy
The need to increase recorded rates of cultural participation has become a recurring trope within cultural policy discourse despite evidence that demonstrates the breadth of people’s everyday participation across a range of cultural and creative practices. This chapter therefore challenges the very the notion of “non-participation” as a “problem” and instead questions the legitimacy of taste hierarchies on which established cultural policy is fou…
Situating the local in global cultural policy
David Stevenson - ORCID 0000-0002-8977-1818 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8977-1818
Failure seems to be the hardest word to say
Policy interventions, to increase participation, have long been informed by data demonstrating inequity in the subsidised cultural sector. However, it is less clear how evidence is employed to judge success or failure of initiatives to create greater equity. Indeed, quantitative surveys suggest a failure to change patterns of cultural participation. Despite this a large body of evaluation reports celebrate the ‘success’ of participatory projects.…
Failures in Cultural Participation
This OA book examines how and why the UK's policy approach towards increasing cultural participation has failed to address inequality and inequity
A Failure Framework
This chapter synthesises the findings from our research and introduces a new framework for discussing and evaluating failure in relation to cultural participation projects and policies. In it, we argue for the importance of acknowledging that any given project or policy can succeed or fail in different facets, to different degrees, for different people, and over different timescales. We then offer some thoughts about how the policymaking process …
Histories of Failures
This chapter offers a historical context on the development of cultural participation as a policy “problem” in the UK. Furthermore, it identifies the logic on which policymakers tend to base their cultural participation policies and the assumptions that prevail as a result. Specifically, this chapter looks at the fault lines that have shaped the type of policies, projects, and practices that many cultural agencies see as “necessary” and “appropri…
The Failures of Policy
This chapter examines the purpose of cultural participation policies from the perspective of those who design and deliver them. It considers whether policymakers are open to the possibility of failure, both in terms of those whom they fund but also in relation to their own work and asks whether the context within which they work may support or hinder this openness. Finally, this chapter considers the types of failure that are acknowledged and how…
Failing at the Frontline
This chapter focuses on the type of failures that practitioners most often recognise. It examines the contested meanings of participation not only between policymakers and practitioners but also between different types of practitioners. This chapter considers the levers and barriers in addressing failures of practice and then presents alternative narratives about these failures that may support or challenge those of policymakers. In doing so, thi…
Thinking About Failing
This chapter explores how academic researchers have understood the concept of failure. The chapter focuses on public policy literature to develop an understanding of the relational and contextual nature of success and failure. After a brief discussion on what we can understand by cultural policy and who has a role in its inception and delivery, this chapter considers the ways in which academics have attempted to define what policy failure constit…
Failing the Participant
This chapter focuses on participants; the supposed beneficiary of cultural participation polices. We argue that literature on cultural participation too often overlooks the participants’ narratives. This chapter thus considers how the participant frames their own participation and how they define their success and failure in relation to the work that supports it. It examines this situation both in relation to work that professionals facilitate an…
Cultural Policy is Local: Understanding Cultural Policy as Situated Practice
This collection promotes a greater understanding of ‘the local’ within the ways the arts, culture and creative practices are governed and promoted. This is an open access book.
Negotiating between national and local policy on participation: Local authority arts offices in Ireland
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