Everyday participation and cultural value
Everyday participation and cultural value
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日常参与和文化价值
DOI:
10.1080/09548963.2016.1204043
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发表时间:
2016
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影响因子:
3.1
通讯作者:
Lisanne Gibson
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作者:
Andrew Miles;Lisanne Gibson
The articles in this special issue present some of the early findings of Understanding Everyday Participation – Articulating Cultural Values (UEP), a five-year large grant project, which began in 2012 and is part of the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s Connected Communities programme, receiving supplementary funding from Creative Scotland. The project starts from the proposition that the orientation of cultural policy and state-funded cultural programming towards cultural participation and value is in need of a radical overhaul. We argue that there is an orthodoxy of approach to cultural engagement which is based on a narrow definition (and understanding) of participation, one that focuses on a limited set of cultural forms, activities and associated cultural institutions but which, in the process, obscures the significance of other forms of cultural participation which are situated locally in the everyday realm. Drawing together a large interdisciplinary team of researchers, which meshes interests across the humanities, social sciences and the policy sector, UEP’s research seeks to identify and apprehend everyday cultural participation and the values people attach to this, especially in relation to the social sphere. Our aim in doing this is to reorientate the focus of both academic and policy work on “cultural value” and thereby to cast fresh light on the nature and significance of cultural preferences and activities in the UK in the twenty-first century. We can already, part way through the project, point to the consistency of findings across the methods used in our research, which reveal (1) the rich variety of cultural participation activities, the vast majority of which lies beyond the orbit of State cultural support, and (2) the importance of these everyday forms of participation for developing social capital and sustaining social networks, and for defining the parameters of “community”. As Elias (1998) reflected, working with the concept of the everyday implies the mobilisation of its opposite, which in this case is the “official” framework of cultural participation and value in the UK (Griffiths, Miles, & Savage, 2008). This can be defined as the largely formal and traditional practices, venues and institutions funded by government through the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. Following Bourdieu (1984), this framework can be seen to reflect a series of historical and cultural assumptions about certain tastes and forms of activity being canonised by the State as more valuable than others, and which can act as powerful symbols of social distinction. As Miles and Sullivan (2010, 2012) argue, the operationalisation of this framework by the State under the New Labour governments of 1997–2010 involved a decontextualisation of cultural value that was accompanied by the mobilisation of a “deficit model of participation” reflecting middle-class norms and understandings of what was to count as “legitimate” culture. Here, policies that prioritised access to culture in the name of reducing social exclusion were at same time part of a process of discrimination, marking out and marginalising those people and places that did not associate themselves with established culture as passive, isolated and in need of (remedial) attention (Gibson, in press; Miles, 2013). The logics of the “social inclusion” narrative within cultural policy and across cultural practice have recently been extended through discourses of “access” and “participation” into collaboration, co-production and co-curation, although arguably there has not been a real expansion in the cultural activities which are the focus of co-production practices (Gibson & Edwards, 2016).
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发表时间:
2010
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影响因子:
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作者:
Miles A G
通讯作者:
Miles A G
影响因子:
3.1
作者:
Miles A
通讯作者:
Miles A