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Based on original research, this book looks at the role of community organisations as intermediaries between community and culture, analysing the role they play in mitigating the worst effects of social exclusion. The authors examine the necessity to engage communities with different forms of cultural consumption and production, and consider issues surrounding power, governance, and future practice.
List of contents
Chapter 1. Introduction: Bringing communities and culture together; Phil Jones, Beth Perry, Paul Long.
Section One: Changing Contexts
Chapter 2. The Creative Economy, The Creative Class, and Cultural Intermediation; Orian Brook, Dave O'Brien, and Mark Taylor.
Chapter 3. Mapping Cultural Intermediaries; Lisa De Propris.
Chapter 4. Towards cultural ecologies: why urban cultural policy must embrace multiple cultural agendas; Beth Perry and Jessica Symons.
Chapter 5. State-Sponsored Amateurism: Cultural Intermediation, Participation and Non-Professional Production; Paul Long.
Section Two: Practices of Cultural Intermediation
Chapter 6. 'An area lacking cultural activity': Researching Cultural Lives in Urban Space; Paul Long and Saskia Warren.
Chapter 7. Case Study: SOME CITIES; Dan Burwood.
Chapter 8. Governing the creative city: the practice, value and effectiveness of cultural intermediation; Beth Perry
Chapter 9. Participatory budgeting for culture: handing power to communities? Phil Jones
Chapter 10. Saadia Kiyani. Case study: Balsall Heath Legends; Saadia Kiyani.
Chapter 11. Screening films for social change: origins, aims and evolution of the Bristol Radical Film Festival; Laura Ager.
Section Three: Evaluation, Impact and Methodology
Chapter 12. Engineering cohesion: a reflection on academic practice in a community-based setting; Arshad Isakjee.
Chapter 13. Case study: Force Deep; Chris Jam
Chapter 14. Strategies for overcoming research obstacles: developing the Ordsall Method as a process for ethnographically-informed impact in communities; Jessica Symons
Chapter 15. Street Art, Faith and Cultural Engagement, Mohammed Ali.
Chapter 16. From the inside: reflections on cultural intermediation; Yvette Vaughan Jones.
Conclusion
Chapter 17. Conclusion. Where next for cultural intermediation? Phil Jones, Paul Long and Beth Perry.
About the author
Phil Jones is a Senior Lecturer in Cultural Geography, University of Birmingham.
Beth Perry is a Professional Fellow at the Urban Institute in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Sheffield.
Paul Long is a Professor of Media and Cultural History at the School of Media, Birmingham City University.
Summary
This book considers the importance of cultural intermediaries, analysing their role as mitigators of the worst effects of social exclusion and examining the necessity to engage communities with different forms of cultural consumption and production.
