Finding the sweet spot
Critiquing a Cultural Ecosystems Approach to Civic Cultural Strategy Making
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2181801 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Victoria Barker (0000-0001-7202-7331, University of Manchester, corresponding author), Jennie Jordan (0000-0002-3955-1913, De Montfort University) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 277-292 |
| Publication date | 2022-05-04 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Cultural Economy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1753-0350 • E-ISSN: 1753-0369 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17530350.2022.2041464 |
| OpenAlex | W4225428146 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 29 |
This paper contributes to debates about how cities create resilient systems for making, re-making and maintaining representations of culture. Our case traces how collaborative festival production implicitly created an infrastructure founded on shared values. This was formalised into city cultural policy using an ecosystem framework, which institutionalised these values, and meant that the ecosystem became partial, excluding creative commercial and community organisations, city residents from diverse backgrounds, and influential non-city bodies. Using the same model to analyse the strategy making process, we argue that this framework can only develop resilience where there is explicit inclusion of the diversity of the city’s cultural interests. This diversity is central to resilient ecosystems, and whilst this framework may offer more inclusive strategy approaches, it also decentralises ownership and leadership. We ask – is there a ‘sweet spot’ for resilient and inclusive cultural policy between centralised strategy and a laissez-faire approach
Architectural engineering · Cultural policy · Economics · Environmental ethics · Environmental resource management · Place making · Political science · Psychological resilience · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Engineering · Law · Regional resilience and development · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts
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Creativity, Innovation and the Cultural Economy
Handbook of Creative Cities
Events and Urban Regeneration
Festivals and the Cultural Public Sphere
Culture-led regeneration for urban spaces
Cultural and creative ecosystems
Cultural closure and social mobility
The participation myth
Cultural democracy
Whose cultural value? Representation, power and creative industries
Enriching Britain
The practice of cultural ecology
Creative economies of tomorrow? Limits to growth and the uncertain future
Defensive instrumentalism” and the legacy of New Labour's cultural policies
Carnivals for elites? The cultural politics of arts festivals
Urban cultural policy and creative city making
Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed
Joining-Up or Tagging On? The Arts, Cultural Planning and the View From Below
Creative Clusters
Urban Regeneration
Rules of the Game
Snowball Sampling
| Citations per year | 1.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |