Infrastructuring togetherness
Exploring eventification of community and advocacy in a European network of cultural centres
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12235830 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marthe Nehl (0009-0001-0591-8537, Lund University, corresponding author), Friederike Landau-Donnelly (0000-0002-5728-6527, TU Dortmund University) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Pages | 1-19 |
| Publication date | 2025-03-25 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cultural Trends (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0954-8963 • E-ISSN: 1469-3690 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09548963.2025.2458267 |
| OpenAlex | W4408882150 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 28 |
Despite the numerous cultural networks within and outside of European contexts of culture-led urban development as well as transnational cultural policy-making, in-depth analyses of such networks remain scarce. In light of this, the article introduces the network Trans Europe Halles (TEH, est. 1983) as an empirical case study that illustrates cultural grassroots organising across its 165+ members throughout Europe. TEH works both inward-oriented towards the building of a community, and outward-oriented via practices of network expansion, eventification and collaborative policy-making efforts. Sensitised through the different temporalities of “project time” and “infrastructure time”, as well as conceptual engagements with critical event studies, we identify and temporarily disentangle the intertwined practices of (1) infrastructuring a community and (2) infrastructuring cultural advocacy. Understanding the TEH network as a socio-material and continuously evolving, relational infrastructure, our infrastructural analysis offers a theorisation that helps to understand temporal concatenations in their local and contextual specificity
Media studies · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Public Administration · Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Urban Transport and Accessibility
Infrastructuring Publics
Acting on Cultural Policy
Why Meetings Matter
The Issues of Defining and Classifying Cultural Centres
Critical Event Studies
The Rise of the Network Society
Communicating the needs of a sector in times of crisis
Artist intermediaries in Berlin
Infrastructure Time
Time as infrastructure
The eventification of place
The promise of cultural networks in Latin America
Transnational cultural networks
Activating urban environments as social infrastructure through civic stewardship
Trust and inter-organizational networking
Regionalizing the infrastructure turn
Modes of Network Governance
Cities of care
Political Infrastructures
The politics of community
The Ethnography of Infrastructure
People as Infrastructure
Rhythms of gentrification
Five Misunderstandings About Case-Study Research
Lively Infrastructure
The Politics and Poetics of Infrastructure
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |