Performing the Civic Transnational: Cultural Production, Governance, and Citizenship in Contemporary London

McKinnie, Michael

doi:10.1007/978-0-230-30521-2_7

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“…Similarly, the location of a theatre can affect its sense of identity. For instance, the Barbican Centre in London is indelibly linked to its position within the financial district of ‘The City’, something reflected in its diverse and experimental programming that mirrors the cosmopolitan and risky ethos of London’s financial centre (McKinnie 2009).…”

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Geographies of the Performing Arts: Landscapes, Places and Cities

Rogers¹

2012

Geography Compass

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The performing arts of dance, theatre, music and live art have become established means through which cultural geographers can examine how people experience and make sense of their everyday worlds. Simultaneously, performance theorists and practitioners increasingly seek geographical tools that help elucidate the broader processes or politics that underpin artistic genres of performance. This review article works at this interdisciplinary nexus, exploring the diverse areas of engagement between geography and the performing arts. It provides an overview of three spatialities around which interdisciplinary exchanges take place, and where there are interesting synergies in the conceptual approach to studying geographies of performance, namely: landscapes, places and cities. In so doing, the article outlines some avenues where geography and performance studies academics might further their mutual interests, and argues that geography is central to the constitution, meaning and form that performance works take.

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Section: City Spacesmentioning

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Geographies of the Performing Arts: Landscapes, Places and Cities

Rogers¹

2012

Geography Compass

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“…At a national level, mobilising feelings of pride of membership have been a key objective for many governments. Citing Lloyd and Thomas (1998), McKinnie (2009, p. 113) argues that:The entrenchment of representative democracy as the dominant form of Western political organization from the eighteenth century onward has involved culture contributing to a regulative “idea of the state” – broadly speaking, a bourgeois liberal democratic one – and entailed cultural institutions and artefacts serving as “exemplary objects of pedagogy” in “the formation of citizens and the legitimization of [that] state”.…”

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The cultural politics of civic pride through Hull UK City of Culture 2017

Howcroft

2023

AAM

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PurposeThis article explores the cultural politics of civic pride through Hull's year as UK City of Culture (UKCoC) in 2017. It unpicks some of the socio-political meanings and values of civic pride in Hull and critiques the ways in which pride, as an indicator of identity and belonging, was mobilised by UKCoC organisers, funders and city leaders. It argues for more nuanced and critical approaches to the consideration and evaluation of pride through cultural mega events (CMEs) that can take account of pride's multiple forms, meanings and temporalities.Design/methodology/approachA multidimensional, mixed methods approach is taken, incorporating the critical analysis of Hull2017 promotional materials and events and original interviews with a range of stakeholders.FindingsThe desire for socio-economic change and renewed identity has dominated Hull's post-industrial sense of self and is often expressed through the language of pride. This article argues that UKCoC organisers, cognisant of this, crafted and tightly controlled a singular pride narrative to create the feeling of change and legitimise the entrepreneurial re-branding of the city. At the same time, UKCoC organisers overlooked the opportunity to engage with and potentially reactivate the political culture of Hull, which like other “left behind” or “structurally disadvantaged” places, is becoming increasingly anti-political.Originality/valueThrough the case study of a relatively unresearched and under-represented city, this paper contributes to cultural policy literatures concerned with critically assessing the benefits and shortcomings of Cultural Mega Events and to a more specific field concerning Cities of Culture and the political cultures of their host cities. This paper also contributes to an emerging literature on the centrality of pride through the UK's post-Brexit Levelling Up agenda, suggesting that pride in place is becoming figured as a “universal theme” of the neoliberal city script.

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Theatre in Market Economies

McKinnie

2021

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Performing the Civic Transnational: Cultural Production, Governance, and Citizenship in Contemporary London

Cited by 14 publications

References 4 publications

Geographies of the Performing Arts: Landscapes, Places and Cities

Geographies of the Performing Arts: Landscapes, Places and Cities

The cultural politics of civic pride through Hull UK City of Culture 2017

Theatre in Market Economies

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