Civic Boosterism in the Politics of Local Economic Development—‘Institutional Positions’; and ‘Strategic Orientations’ in the Consumption of Hallmark Events
Civic Boosterism in the Politics of Local Economic Development—‘Institutional Positions’; and ‘Strategic Orientations’ in the Consumption of Hallmark Events
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地方经济发展政治中的公民助推——标志性事件消费中的“制度定位”与“战略导向”
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10.1068/a291975
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1997
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Mark Boyle
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Mark Boyle
作者开始询问的方式，文化节日已经在理论上的公民助推器的作用，或他所谓的“城市宣传项目”（UPPs）在当地经济发展的政治帐户的背景下。注意力主要集中在作者如何解释“当地人”对助推器的反应方式。基于俄亥俄州学派提出的论点，以及对后来工作的回顾，我们所追求的中心论点是，迄今为止的工作都是在对组织标志性事件的先行物质和文化背景的非常贫乏的概念的情况下进行的。关于UPP的“受众”概念，作者采用了一种未被承认的假设，即当地人的消费和与事件的关系主要是他们在多大程度上接受、抵制（文化或经济上）或迷失方向，通过正在推广的地方身份的版本。即使在本质上是批判性的或马克思主义的，这种形式的分析也将调查限制在助推器议程本身的职权范围内。作者认为，更具想象力的概念框架可能会引导分析师寻找其他消费模式，这些模式确实可能拒绝承认助推主义的语言（无论好坏），并且可能需要不同的分析切入点。使用格拉斯哥的作用，1990年欧洲文化城市的案例研究，作者开发了这样一个框架的轮廓，与机构的立场和战略方向的关键概念的援助。虽然可以在现有的批判或马克思主义帐户拨款，这些概念是不是该框架的产品，从而产生，至少，一个有问题的关系it. It的结论是，当地的反应，特别是文化节日的帐户，并在一般的公民助推器，必须逃脱认识论的紧身衣，马克思主义/助推器议程提出。
The author sets out to interrogate the manner in which cultural festivals have been theorised in the context of accounts of the role of civic boosterism—or what he terms ‘Urban Propaganda Projects' (UPPs)—in the politics of local economic development. Attention is focused primarily upon how authors account for the way in which ‘locals' respond to boosterism. Based upon the thesis advanced by the Ohio School, and a review of later work, the central argument pursued is that work to date has operated with remarkably impoverished conceptions of the antecedent material and cultural contexts within which hallmark events are being organised. In regard to their conception of the ‘audience’ for UPPs, authors have worked with the unacknowledged assumption that locals consume and relate to events largely in terms of the extent to which they buy into, resist (culturally or economically), or become disoriented, by the versions of local identity which are being promoted. Even when critical or Marxist in nature, this form of analysis limits enquiry to the terms of reference of the boosterist agenda itself. The author argues that more imaginative conceptual frameworks might orient analysts to look for other modes of consumption—modes which indeed might refuse to recognise the language of boosterism (for good or bad) and which might require a different entry point to analysis. Using a case study of Glasgow's role as European City of Culture 1990, the author develops the contours of one such framework, with the aid of key concepts of institutional positions and strategic orientations. Although amenable to appropriation within existing critical or Marxist accounts, these concepts are not the products of that framework and thus generate, at the very least, a problematic relationship with it. It is concluded that accounts of local reactions to cultural festivals in particular, and to civic boosterism in general, must escape the epistemological straightjacket that the Marxist/boosterist agenda presents.