Regional creative industries policy-making under New Labour

Lee, David John; Hesmondhalgh, David; Oakley, Kate; Nisbett, Melissa

doi:10.1080/09548963.2014.912044

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“…There is a huge and long-standing literature, particularly within economic geography, on the location of cultural production (Pratt, 2008), the dominance of particular urban centers (Scott, 2000) and on the way in which public policy has sought to develop the CCIs outside of these dominant areas (Lee, Hesmondhalgh, Oakley, & Nisbett, 2014). Behind much of this work is an implicit story about inequality-why some cities rather that others?…”

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Cultural Capital: Arts Graduates, Spatial Inequality, and London’s Impact on Cultural Labor Markets

Oakley

Laurison

O’Brien

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American Behavioral Scientist

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This article looks at the degree to which spatial inequalities reinforce other forms of social inequality in cultural labor markets. It does so using the example of London, an acknowledged hub for the creative and cultural industries. Using pooled data from 2013 to 2015 quarters of the United Kingdom's. Labour Force Survey, we consider the social makeup of London's cultural labor force, and reveal the extent to which, rather than acting as an "engine room" of social mobility, London's dominance in fact reenforces social class disparities in cultural employment.

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Cultural Capital: Arts Graduates, Spatial Inequality, and London’s Impact on Cultural Labor Markets

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Laurison

O’Brien

et al. 2017

American Behavioral Scientist

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“…Governments are held accountable for policy output and outcome, whether delivered in collaboration or not, something which makes collaborative implementation risky. Policy development demands furthermore add complexity to policy implementation over time, for example, in creative industries policy (Cooke & De Propris, 2011; Lee, Hesmondhalgh, Oakley, & Nisbett, 2014; Taylor, 2015). To enable policy learning with the aim of improving governments’ and public administration’s future policy making and implementation, evaluation of previous implementation is vital.…”

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Dilemmas and Paradoxes of Regional Cultural Policy Implementation: Governance Modes, Discretion, and Policy Outcome

Lindqvist

2016

Administration & Society

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Bad policy design affects public service delivery and the conditions for providing public services at operational level. Fragmentation of public management due to governance reforms becomes visible in policy failure; a problem for governments, public service providers, and citizens. The poor outcome of a reformed regional museum education policy is the starting point for a study of paradoxes of regional cultural policy implementation. The article opens up the black box of policy implementation and identifies goal conflicts in regional development policy, conflicting expectations among stakeholders, as well as governance paradoxes resulting in gaps between policy intentions, output, and outcome.

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“…Whilst the reasons behind the failure of New Labour to rebalance Britain's creative economy have been extensively rehearsed (Jayne, 2005;Lee et al, 2014), the issue of whether the regionalisation of the cultural policy frame is associated with differences at this level in the national patterning of cultural engagement has not been subjected to systematic exploration. The uneven and incoherent nature of policy development across the RDAs -identified as a core reason for their failure -together with studies that highlight the influence of locally specific structures and mechanisms in policy implementation and reception (e.g.…”

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“…Prior to this, an emphasis on the cultural and creative industries and their development by the RDAs into drivers of economic and social regeneration was a central feature of what amounted to a significant re-organisation of regional government by the first Blair administration that came to power in 1997 (Lee, Hesmondhalgh, Oakley, & Nisbett, 2014;Lutz, 2006). Unprecedented sums were invested by the RDAs in creative industries business and skills development and in major regional capital projects in the cultural sector (Crowley, Balaram, & Lee, 2012) while the creation of the Regional Cultural Consortia "led to the legitimation of the region as a key contributor to the formation and implementation of cultural policy at all levels of governance" (Stevenson, McKay, & Rowe, 2010).…”

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Fields of participation and lifestyle in England: revealing the regional dimension from a reanalysis of the Taking Part Survey using Multiple Factor Analysis

Leguina

Miles

2017

Cultural Trends

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This paper addresses the concerns of the Understanding Everyday Participation project with the relationship between cultural participation and space. Here we approach the notion of space in two different but complementary ways. Our main focus is on geographical variations in participation, which we explore at the regional level in England. However, in order to do so, we begin by re-evaluating the nature of the cultural field itself and the way that this is arranged in social space. The issue of regional disparities in the funding of cultural activities and venues from the public purse has become a heated issue. Yet, in contrast to the avowedly regional focus of much cultural and creative industries policy following the advent of the first New Labour administration in 1997, issues of place have been largely overlooked in recent studies of cultural consumption, and therefore little is known about the spatial dynamics of participation practices. Using data from the UK government's Taking Part Survey, we adopt a novel methodological approach, known as Multiple Factor Analysis, to re-examine and represent the English cultural field. Our findings reveal the hitherto underestimated importance of informal everyday cultural practices in configuring the sociology of lifestyles. Alongside and beyond the familiar North-South divide and London effect, they also indicate that the English cultural field is characterised by a complex regional geography.

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Regional creative industries policy-making under New Labour

Cited by 13 publications

References 36 publications

Cultural Capital: Arts Graduates, Spatial Inequality, and London’s Impact on Cultural Labor Markets

Cultural Capital: Arts Graduates, Spatial Inequality, and London’s Impact on Cultural Labor Markets

Dilemmas and Paradoxes of Regional Cultural Policy Implementation: Governance Modes, Discretion, and Policy Outcome

Fields of participation and lifestyle in England: revealing the regional dimension from a reanalysis of the Taking Part Survey using Multiple Factor Analysis

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