John Vail
Biographic Data
| ID | 643659 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Vail |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Vail |
| SIGNATURE | VAIL J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Newcastle University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Rules for Cultural Radicals
This article explores the various forms of “social skill”, what we call “rules for cultural radicals”, that the Amber Film and Photography Collective (and primarily its founder and leading visionary, Murray Martin) used to create and sustain an egalitarian arts organization and oppositional cultural movement in the Northeast of England. The collective represented a radical challenge to the world of British filmmaking, featuring innovative practic…
Creative Democracy and the Arts: The Participatory Democracy of the Amber Collective
We use the term 'creative democracy' - coined by John Dewey - to explore the ways in which the creative activity of artists is shaped by democratic norms and practices. Using the case of the Amber Film and Photography Collective in the northeast of England, we discuss their process of creative democracy - featuring norms of project initiation, collective scrutiny and empowerment - and investigate how this practice became a vital feature of their …
The art of social movement: Cultural opportunity, mobilisation, and framing in the early formation of the Amber Collective
This article utilises social movement literature to help explain the early cultural formation of the Amber Collective-a longstanding egalitarian arts group from Northeast England-and the broader oppositional film movement of which it was a part. More specifically, we attempt theoretically to rework traditional social movement concepts like political opportunity, mobilisation and framing by developing their cultural corollaries. In doing so, we at…
Cultural Work and Transformative Arts: The Dilemmas of the Amber Collective
The model of cultural work undertaken by the Amber Film and Photography Collective represents a radical challenge to the insecure and de-politicised world of cultural work that has long been the norm within the arts. Our paper, which explores the collective's diverse forms of cultural work, including paid labour, collective labour, gift labour and creative labour, argues that cultural work can be imbued with moral commitments and egalitarian idea…
Decommodification and Egalitarian Political Economy
This article contends that decommodification is an appropriate concept for understanding diverse initiatives such as fair trade, microfinance, open source, social enterprises, and the environmental commons as component features of a common process. Decommodification is conceived as any political, social, or cultural process that reduces the scope and influence of the market in everyday life. Given recent transformations in market societies, a mor…
Decommodification and Egalitarian Political Economy
This article contends that decommodification is an appropriate concept for understanding diverse initiatives such as fair trade, microfinance, open source, social enterprises, and the environmental commons as component features of a common process. Decommodification is conceived as any political, social, or cultural process that reduces the scope and influence of the market in everyday life. Given recent transformations in market societies, a mor…
The art of social movement: Cultural opportunity, mobilisation, and framing in the early formation of the Amber Collective
This article utilises social movement literature to help explain the early cultural formation of the Amber Collective-a longstanding egalitarian arts group from Northeast England-and the broader oppositional film movement of which it was a part. More specifically, we attempt theoretically to rework traditional social movement concepts like political opportunity, mobilisation and framing by developing their cultural corollaries. In doing so, we at…
Cultural Work and Transformative Arts: The Dilemmas of the Amber Collective
The model of cultural work undertaken by the Amber Film and Photography Collective represents a radical challenge to the insecure and de-politicised world of cultural work that has long been the norm within the arts. Our paper, which explores the collective's diverse forms of cultural work, including paid labour, collective labour, gift labour and creative labour, argues that cultural work can be imbued with moral commitments and egalitarian idea…
Rules for Cultural Radicals
This article explores the various forms of “social skill”, what we call “rules for cultural radicals”, that the Amber Film and Photography Collective (and primarily its founder and leading visionary, Murray Martin) used to create and sustain an egalitarian arts organization and oppositional cultural movement in the Northeast of England. The collective represented a radical challenge to the world of British filmmaking, featuring innovative practic…
Creative Democracy and the Arts: The Participatory Democracy of the Amber Collective
We use the term 'creative democracy' - coined by John Dewey - to explore the ways in which the creative activity of artists is shaped by democratic norms and practices. Using the case of the Amber Film and Photography Collective in the northeast of England, we discuss their process of creative democracy - featuring norms of project initiation, collective scrutiny and empowerment - and investigate how this practice became a vital feature of their …
Decommodification and Egalitarian Political Economy
This article contends that decommodification is an appropriate concept for understanding diverse initiatives such as fair trade, microfinance, open source, social enterprises, and the environmental commons as component features of a common process. Decommodification is conceived as any political, social, or cultural process that reduces the scope and influence of the market in everyday life. Given recent transformations in market societies, a mor…
The art of social movement: Cultural opportunity, mobilisation, and framing in the early formation of the Amber Collective
This article utilises social movement literature to help explain the early cultural formation of the Amber Collective-a longstanding egalitarian arts group from Northeast England-and the broader oppositional film movement of which it was a part. More specifically, we attempt theoretically to rework traditional social movement concepts like political opportunity, mobilisation and framing by developing their cultural corollaries. In doing so, we at…
Cultural Work and Transformative Arts: The Dilemmas of the Amber Collective
The model of cultural work undertaken by the Amber Film and Photography Collective represents a radical challenge to the insecure and de-politicised world of cultural work that has long been the norm within the arts. Our paper, which explores the collective's diverse forms of cultural work, including paid labour, collective labour, gift labour and creative labour, argues that cultural work can be imbued with moral commitments and egalitarian idea…
Rules for Cultural Radicals
This article explores the various forms of “social skill”, what we call “rules for cultural radicals”, that the Amber Film and Photography Collective (and primarily its founder and leading visionary, Murray Martin) used to create and sustain an egalitarian arts organization and oppositional cultural movement in the Northeast of England. The collective represented a radical challenge to the world of British filmmaking, featuring innovative practic…
Creative Democracy and the Arts: The Participatory Democracy of the Amber Collective
We use the term 'creative democracy' - coined by John Dewey - to explore the ways in which the creative activity of artists is shaped by democratic norms and practices. Using the case of the Amber Film and Photography Collective in the northeast of England, we discuss their process of creative democracy - featuring norms of project initiation, collective scrutiny and empowerment - and investigate how this practice became a vital feature of their …
Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · The arts (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Artistic and Creative Research (2 works)