Negotiating the cultural politics and poetics of identity within the creative industries of South West Britain

本研究通过探索地点、空间和身份之间的关系，重视在地域背景下理解创造性制作的文化实践和经验。为此，本研究通过英国西南部创意产业的视角，在最近与“新区域主义”相关的治理和政策辩论的背景下，解决了关系身份的形成。我们将探索西南地区跨媒体和非媒体创意产业的创意制造者基于地点的身份形成的诗学和政治。这项研究将有助于寻求“解开”区域的新理论干预，并发展对空间、地点和身份的新文化理解。虽然考虑空间关系政治的理论挑战已经发展起来，但解决配置关系交换的实践的实证研究仍然不发达。这项研究将显著填补这一空白。对创意创造者的实践和相关制度框架的分析为理解“新区域主义”的政治和实践提供了另一种文化视角。培养和颂扬创意人才已成为政治议程的核心原则，支持创意艺术研究的紧迫性也相应变得清晰起来。了解创意经济的联系、经验和发展已成为当务之急。通过创意艺术的镜头探索身份的关系政治和诗学，有助于突出区域概念和地方感中固有的一系列紧张关系：首先，为了支持区域创意产业（包括与电影，媒体，艺术，旅游，博物馆等的联系），已经建立了大量的机构。在经济和政治考虑的驱使下，他们的地区背景在很大程度上被认为是理所当然的，“地区”被认为是不言而喻的。然而，在现实中，他们的行为强加了一个想象的区域框架（安德森，1983）。换句话说，正在发展的治理框架既在积极地创造，也在努力理解该地区。其次，“新地区主义”因试图构建一种封闭和排他性的身份而受到批评（Amin et al. 2003）。虽然政策议程正在追求社会包容、多元和开放的理想，但许多基于地方的身份的实践和表现都是基于排斥的概念。事实上，在创意产业中，“差异”的概念和反映“内在性”的实践往往被视为更有说服力，同时也增加了经济和社会价值。在创意产业的背景下，我们试图了解在该行业工作的人的做法；他们工作的历史；网络建立和维护的方式；以及它们在西南内外的联系方式。通过了解那些在西南工作的人的关系身份和联系，这项研究将有助于对创意产业中工作的人的差异和多样性有更广泛的认识。我们将确保个人创造者的传记故事，以及更大的创意企业将被呈现，为以多样性而不是排斥为基础的新政治做出贡献。

This research places value on understanding the cultural practices and experiences of creative making within a regional context by exploring the relationships between place, space and identity. To this end, this research addresses relational identity formation through the lens of the creative industries in South West Britain set within the context of recent governance and policy debates associated with 'new regionalism'. We will explore the poetics and politics of the place-based identity formation of creative makers across the media and non-media creative industries in the South West.This research will contribute to new theoretical interventions that are seeking to 'unbind' regions, and develop a new cultural understanding of space, place and identity. While the theoretical challenges to consider the relational politics of space have been developed, the empirical research that addresses the practices that configure relational interchanges remains underdeveloped. This research would significantly fill this lacuna. The analysis of the practices of creative makers and linked institutional frameworks offers an alternative cultural perspective to understanding the politics and practices of 'new regionalism'.The nurturing and celebration of creative talent has become a central tenet of the political agenda, and the urgency of supporting research into the creative arts has become correspondingly clear. It has become a pressing matter to understand the connections, experiences and development of the creative economy. Exploring the relational politics and poetics of identity through the lens of the creative arts helps to highlight a series of tensions that are inherent within notions of the region and of senses of place:First, there are an abundance of institutions that have been established in order to support a regional creative industry (including connections to film, media, art, tourism, museums etc.). Their regional context has largely been taken for granted, driven by economic and political consideration, with the 'region' supposedly self-evident. In reality, however, they act to impose a regional framework that is imagined (Anderson, 1983). In other words, the developing framework of governance is both actively creating, yet also struggling to understand, the region.Second, 'new regionalism' has been critiqued for attempting to construct an identity that is closed and exclusionary (Amin et al. 2003). While policy agendas are pursuing an ideal of social inclusion, pluralism and openness, many of the practices and performances of place-based identities are based around notions of exclusion. Indeed, within the creative industries, notions of 'difference' and practices that reflect 'insiderness' are often seen to accrue greater cogency together with increased economic and social value.Within the context of the creative industries, we seek to understand the practices of those working within the sector; the histories of their work; the ways in which the networks are created and maintained; and the ways in which they connect within and beyond the South West. By understanding the relational identities and connections of those working in the South West, the research will contribute to a more inclusive awareness of the difference and diversity of people working within the creative industries. We will ensure that the biographical stories of individual makers, alongside larger creative enterprises will be presented, contributing to a new politics of place that is predicated on diversity rather than exclusion.