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Pride, shame and the civic imaginary: UK cultural festivals and the levelling up agenda

骄傲、羞耻和公民想象：英国文化节和升级议程

基本信息

批准号：
ES/X004139/1
负责人：
Michael Howcroft
金额：
$ 12.13万
依托单位：
University of Southampton
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Fellowship
财政年份：
2022
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2022 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FX004139%2F1
关键词：
Pride shame civic imaginary UK

项目摘要

Civic imaginaries are the multiple ways in which individuals and collectives think, feel and dream about the futures of their places and communities. They reveal the potential qualitative avenues through which researchers might explore the everyday realities and understandings of local political cultures, and develop new questions to address the broader societal impacts of cultural festivals. Incorporating innovative, creative methodologies, working with civic imaginaries lies at the intersection of arts, humanities, political and social science research. By analysing the civic imaginaries of my PhD participants, I argued that Hull2017 exploited local histories and feelings to engineer an emotional atmosphere of pride in the city - a strategy of emotional governance which contributed to the uncritical acceptance of Hull2017 as a 'triumph'. In doing so, I showed that the correlation between civic pride and 'thriving' places is an assumed one, in need of further interrogation. I also found that: i) there are different types of civic pride, and not all necessarily evidence policy success; ii) civic pride is temporary and fragile - it is difficult to measure and it does not last very long. Given the emerging Levelling Up context and its promotion of pride through local culture, this work has proved to be timely, with potentially significant impact across academia, policy and practice.This fellowship will allow me to expand and disseminate my knowledge of the civic imaginary and civic pride and their relationship with cultural festivals and UK political culture. Building on the approach and findings of my PhD, it will support new research of additional case studies: Coventry UK City of Culture 2021 and Birmingham Festival 2022 - the Commonwealth Games cultural programme - as well as analyse existing data regarding cultural festivals in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (BCP) local authority. The latter is chosen to consider the impact of smaller scale festivals on hyper-local imaginaries and political cultures and was a case study in my recent research associate post at the University of Southampton. Supplementing my PhD data, I will write this research into a monograph for the Routledge Critical Event Studies Series. I will also write an article to submit to the high impact, interdisciplinary journal Environment and Planning D: Society and Space based on the conceptual framework of my PhD. I will further present my work at the conferences of: the American Association of Geographers, the Political Studies Association, and the Regional Studies Association. I will also convene a panel at the Royal Geographical Society conference. These outputs will consolidate my publication record and allow me to present findings to a wide academic cohort.Additionally, I will take this conversation about civic pride and 'Levelling Up' to a range of relevant industry stakeholders such as think tanks, cultural and local government bodies. As the UK government affirms its commitment to developing civic pride metrics in the technical annex to the Levelling Up white paper, this fellowship will contribute and critique that process, offering novel theoretical and methodological insights. The fellowship will also support my methodological skills through training in quantitative and mixed-methods research. These will help me become a more rounded and flexible researcher, putting me in good stead for securing competitive research funding. They will also enable me to teach research methods courses, thus boosting my employability. Finally, I will seek the advice of my mentors to lay the next steps in my academic career, such as reviewing job opportunities and application materials for fellowships and lectureships.

公民想象是个人和集体对他们所在地区和社区的未来进行思考、感受和梦想的多种方式。它们揭示了潜在的定性途径，研究人员可以通过这些途径来探索当地政治文化的日常现实和理解，并提出新的问题来解决文化节的更广泛的社会影响。结合创新、创造性的方法，与公民想象合作，是艺术、人文、政治和社会科学研究的交汇点。通过分析我的博士生的公民想象力，我认为Hull2017利用当地的历史和情感在城市中营造了一种令人自豪的情感氛围-这是一种情感治理战略，导致人们不加批判地接受Hull2017是一次“胜利”。在这样做的过程中，我证明了公民自豪感和繁荣的地方之间的关系是假设的，需要进一步探讨。我还发现：i)有不同类型的公民自豪感，不一定都是政策成功的证据；ii)公民自豪感是暂时的和脆弱的--它很难衡量，而且不会持续很长时间。鉴于新出现的平整背景和通过当地文化提升自豪感，这项工作被证明是及时的，可能对学术界、政策和实践产生重大影响。这一奖学金将使我能够扩大和传播我对公民想象和公民自豪感的知识，以及它们与文化节和英国政治文化的关系。在我的博士学位方法和研究结果的基础上，它将支持对其他案例研究的新研究：2021年考文垂英国文化城和2022年伯明翰文化节-英联邦运动会文化计划-以及分析关于伯恩茅斯、克赖斯特彻奇和普尔(BCP)地方当局文化节的现有数据。选择后者是为了考虑规模较小的节日对超本土化想象和政治文化的影响，这是我最近在南安普顿大学的研究助理职位上的一个案例研究。为了补充我的博士数据，我将把这项研究写成一本专为Routledge关键事件研究系列撰写的专著。我还将根据我的博士学位的概念框架写一篇文章，提交给影响很大的跨学科期刊《环境与规划D：社会与空间》。我将在美国地理学家协会、政治研究协会和地区研究协会的会议上进一步介绍我的工作。我还将在皇家地理学会会议上召集一个小组讨论。这些成果将巩固我的出版记录，使我能够向广泛的学术队列展示我的发现。此外，我还将把这个关于公民自豪感和提升的对话带给一系列相关的行业利益相关者，如智库、文化和地方政府机构。随着英国政府在升级白皮书的技术附件中确认其致力于制定公民自豪感指标，该奖学金将对这一过程做出贡献并提出批评，提供新颖的理论和方法见解。该奖学金还将通过在定量和混合方法研究方面的培训来支持我的方法技能。这些将帮助我成为一名更全面、更灵活的研究人员，使我在获得有竞争力的研究资金方面处于有利地位。他们还将使我能够教授研究方法课程，从而提高我的就业能力。最后，我将征求导师的建议，为我的学术生涯奠定下一步，比如审查工作机会和奖学金和讲师职位的申请材料。