Everyday participation and cultural value

Miles, Andrew; Gibson, Lisanne

doi:10.1080/09548963.2016.1204043

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“…Participants were asked to identify key places, people and activities in their lives, past and present, which they like and dislike and which give them a sense of belonging, as well as social networks of family and friends and broader communities of interest and association (Miles & Gibson, 2016). An analysis of interview data compares references to "park" and "parks", alongside a range of other assets, including museums, theatres, pubs, shops, libraries, doctors and places of worship (see Table 2).…”

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The park and the commons: vernacular spaces for everyday participation and cultural value

Gilmore

2017

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Section: Everyday Park Life In North Manchester and East Salfordmentioning

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The park and the commons: vernacular spaces for everyday participation and cultural value

Gilmore

2017

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“…In summary, this 5-year research project brings to bear a mixed-method research approach to understanding the cultural and leisure choices people make in their day-to-day lives (see Miles & Gibson, 2016, this issue for detail on the project). The focus on "everyday participation", including where, how and with whom it takes place, is motivated by a desire to understand what cultural, social, political and economic significance people attach to their participation, and how the domains of this informal participation and formal participation (cultural forms supported through direct State subvention) are (dis)connected.…”

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Facilitated participation: cultural value, risk and the agency of young people in care

Gibson

Edwards

2016

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Since the mid-nineteenth century, cultural practice and its management have been attached to a discourse that constructs participation, in particular kinds of cultural activity, as "beneficial" to individuals on the basis that its effects have resonance beyond the cultural sphere. More recently, "leading edge" cultural practice and programmes have been based on the notion that benefit from such participation occurs via the facilitation of the active agency of participants through the making of their own meanings through co-curation and co-creation. Enlistment and involvement in, what we have termed "facilitated participation", is, in Nikolas Rose's terms, a tool of "advanced liberalism" whereby the governance of individuals operates on the basis of the governance of their "freedom", through making them self-governing subjects [Rose, N. (1999). Powers of freedom: Reframing political thought. Cambridge University Press]. In the particular case of young people living in care, we have found that the facilitation of their agency through cultural programmes is limited by an assumption that such groups' everyday cultural choices lack value and to facilitate them (and thereby their agency) would involve risk. Through a discussion of research undertaken with this group, this paper will explore how different domains of participation are understood by both the facilitators and the facilitated.

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“…However, they are particularly pronounced when it comes to locating cultural engagement in the broader context of everyday life. Accordingly, the UEP project adopts a mixed-methods approach (for more details, see Miles & Gibson, 2016), in order to open the field of participation to view from a number of complementary and contrasting perspectives.…”

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Telling tales of participation: exploring the interplay of time and territory in cultural boundary work using participation narratives

Miles

2016

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Consideration of the "stakes" attached to participation is most clearly associated with the debate around Bourdieu's [(1984). Distinction: A social critique of the judgement of taste. London: Routledge] concept of cultural capital and the role this plays in processes of domination and social closure. Yet, the preferred method of understanding practice variation in the cultural fieldthe analysis of cross-sectional survey data focused on established tastes and activities -reveals little of the broader nature, dynamics or significance of participation in people's daily lives. In this paper, I explore the potential of participation narratives for re-scoping the field of cultural participation. These accounts foreground the multiplicity of participation, its embeddedness in everyday concerns, institutions and relationships, and the interplay of time and space in the demarcation of the field by class and gender. As well as highlighting the limitations of theoretical models that focus on participation through the lens of cultural practices funded by the State, they suggest that articulations of cultural value in policy need to take more account of the personal histories, social relations and local contexts of participation.

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Everyday participation and cultural value

Cited by 94 publications

References 22 publications

The park and the commons: vernacular spaces for everyday participation and cultural value

The park and the commons: vernacular spaces for everyday participation and cultural value

Facilitated participation: cultural value, risk and the agency of young people in care

Telling tales of participation: exploring the interplay of time and territory in cultural boundary work using participation narratives

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