Crisis, what’s a crisis? Some methodological reflections on evaluating the impact of Covid-19 on Australian arts and culture
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18980554 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Julian Meyrick (0000-0002-2510-9251, Griffith University), Ben Green (0000-0002-3382-8707, Griffith University, corresponding author), Diana Tolmie (0000-0002-1794-6690, Griffith University), J Howard Frank (0000-0002-2802-750X, Griffith University), Jane Frank, Guy L Cooper, Guy Cooper (0000-0002-1748-8183, Independent Researcher, Gold Coast, Australia) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 189-209 |
| Publication date | 2023-04-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal for Cultural Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1479-7585 • E-ISSN: 1740-1666 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14797585.2023.2217368 |
| OpenAlex | W4380486510 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 30 |
This essay discusses a 2021 interview-based pilot project on the impact of COVID-19 on a cross-section of Southeast Queensland artists and cultural organisations. Though it engages with empirical data, it addresses conceptual concerns. Our interviews aimed at capturing the emotional as well as the objective costs of the pandemic on cultural practitioners. The essay considers the phrase ‘crisis of value’ and asks whether it should be used to describe the state of the Australian cultural sector during this time. Following the arguments of Will Davies in respect of the intellectual resources needed to justify a ‘neoliberal realist’ worldview, it explores the impact of COVID-19 on the cultural sector by reflecting on its evaluative methods. Digital analysis of the themes, sentiments, and keywords of 14 interview transcripts are presented and ten inferences drawn about practitioners’ underlying attitudes. Under what circumstances do performances of neoliberal calculations of benefit cease to be convincing and/or delivered in a convincing way? What factors constitute ‘a crisis of value’ in arts and culture? The conclusion argues that the methodic dimension of neoliberal evaluation is only one component of its social acceptability, and therefore only one factor in the perception of a state of crisis
Epistemology · Media studies · Perception · Phrase · Political science · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · The arts · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Law · Management and Organizational Studies · Medicine · Participatory Visual Research Methods
The Impact and Implications of Covid-19
The Value of Culture
Cultural Policy
Culture is not an industry
Culture is bad for you
Response
The Sociological Economics of Gary S. Becker The Economic Approach to Human Behavior. Gary S. Becker
The rise and fall of empathy in an era of financial crisis
Governmentality, subjectivity, and the neoliberal form of life
A meditation on Covid-19 social trauma
Beyond the “Toolkit Approach”
Autonomy and resilience in cultural work
Impact’, ‘value’ and ‘bad economics’
Who cares? At what price? The hidden costs of socially engaged arts labour and the moral failure of cultural policy
From public good to public value
Counting culture to death
Creative and cultural work without filters
Is it really about the evidence? argument, persuasion, and the power of ideas in cultural policy
Culture without “world”
The Value of Everything
Dilemmas in Policy Support for the Arts and Cultural Sector
What Lies Beneath
Using thematic analysis in psychology
Thinking about feeling historical
The conferral of value
The Idea of Crisis in Modern Society
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |