Dave O''Brien
Biographic Data
| ID | 3794627 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dave O''Brien |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dave |
| FAMILY NAME | O''Brien |
| SIGNATURE | BRIEN D O |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Who runs the arts in England? A social network analysis of arts boards
Recent research on cultural production has drawn attention to significant inequalities. This paper aims to unpack one possible explanation for these inequalities by focusing on the people with ultimate responsibility for arts institutions: the boards of directors. Using data from the UK's Companies House, it analyses the boards of Arts Council England's National Portfolio Organisations. It then "hops" to the other organisations with whom arts org…
Routledge Handbook of Global Cultural Policy
On brutal culture
International audience
Learning to labour unequally
Inequality has become essential to understanding contemporary society and is at the forefront of media, political and practice discussions of the future of the arts, particularly in the UK. Whilst there is a wealth of work on traditional areas of inequality, such as those associated with income or gender, the relationship between culture, specifically cultural value, and inequality is comparatively under-researched.The article considers inequalit…
What price evidence? The ethics of office and the ethics of social science in British cultural policy
This paper considers the use of evidence for government decision-making using ethnographically informed data from the lived experiences of those involved in British cultural policy. It does this in order to engage and extend work that has sought to defend bureaucratic forms of activity. The paper offers an empirical case study of how the civil servants’ ethic of office [DuGay, P. (2008) ‘Max weber and the moral economy of office’, Journal of Cult…
Making Culture, Changing Society
Making Culture, Changing Society is a genuinely fascinating text, with a remarkable agenda. The book makes a very useful contribution to a range of areas, moving recent work around the social life
Learning to labour unequally
Inequality has become essential to understanding contemporary society and is at the forefront of media, political and practice discussions of the future of the arts, particularly in the UK. Whilst there is a wealth of work on traditional areas of inequality, such as those associated with income or gender, the relationship between culture, specifically cultural value, and inequality is comparatively under-researched.The article considers inequalit…
Who runs the arts in England? A social network analysis of arts boards
Recent research on cultural production has drawn attention to significant inequalities. This paper aims to unpack one possible explanation for these inequalities by focusing on the people with ultimate responsibility for arts institutions: the boards of directors. Using data from the UK's Companies House, it analyses the boards of Arts Council England's National Portfolio Organisations. It then "hops" to the other organisations with whom arts org…
What price evidence? The ethics of office and the ethics of social science in British cultural policy
This paper considers the use of evidence for government decision-making using ethnographically informed data from the lived experiences of those involved in British cultural policy. It does this in order to engage and extend work that has sought to defend bureaucratic forms of activity. The paper offers an empirical case study of how the civil servants’ ethic of office [DuGay, P. (2008) ‘Max weber and the moral economy of office’, Journal of Cult…
On brutal culture
International audience
Making Culture, Changing Society
Making Culture, Changing Society is a genuinely fascinating text, with a remarkable agenda. The book makes a very useful contribution to a range of areas, moving recent work around the social life
Learning to labour unequally
Inequality has become essential to understanding contemporary society and is at the forefront of media, political and practice discussions of the future of the arts, particularly in the UK. Whilst there is a wealth of work on traditional areas of inequality, such as those associated with income or gender, the relationship between culture, specifically cultural value, and inequality is comparatively under-researched.The article considers inequalit…
What price evidence? The ethics of office and the ethics of social science in British cultural policy
This paper considers the use of evidence for government decision-making using ethnographically informed data from the lived experiences of those involved in British cultural policy. It does this in order to engage and extend work that has sought to defend bureaucratic forms of activity. The paper offers an empirical case study of how the civil servants’ ethic of office [DuGay, P. (2008) ‘Max weber and the moral economy of office’, Journal of Cult…
On brutal culture
International audience
Routledge Handbook of Global Cultural Policy
Who runs the arts in England? A social network analysis of arts boards
Recent research on cultural production has drawn attention to significant inequalities. This paper aims to unpack one possible explanation for these inequalities by focusing on the people with ultimate responsibility for arts institutions: the boards of directors. Using data from the UK's Companies House, it analyses the boards of Arts Council England's National Portfolio Organisations. It then "hops" to the other organisations with whom arts org…
Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Social and Cultural Dynamics (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (3 works) · Cultural policy (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Environmental ethics (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political economy (2 works)