Social Policy and Cultural Services: A Study of Scottish Border Museums as Implementers of Social Inclusion

McCall, Vikki

doi:10.1017/s1474746409004874

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“…While Scotland is a devolved nation with a measure of autonomy over its affairs in the cultural field, similar instrumental expectations have fallen upon museums (McCall, 2009(McCall, , 2010. The New Labour period is often described as 'the golden age' for museums and funding, marked by a period of capacity building in terms of outreach and learning staff (Hein, 2006) who delivered new projects under the banner of social inclusion, both in England and Scotland (e.g.…”

Section: Community Engagement Work In Museums: Policy Contexts and Prmentioning

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Museums’ community engagement schemes, austerity and practices of care in two local museum services

Morse

Munro

2015

Social & Cultural Geography

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In recent years geographers have paid attention to the practices and spaces of care, yet museums rarely feature in this body of literature. Drawing on research conducted with two large museum services -one in England, and one in Scotland -this paper frames museums' community engagement programmes as spaces of care. We offer insights into the practice of community engagement, and note how this is changing as a result of austerity. Our focus is on the routine, everyday caring practices of museum community engagement workers. We further detail the new and renewed strategic partnerships that have been forged as a result of cutbacks in the museum sector and beyond. We note that museums' community engagement workers are attempting to position themselves relative to a number of other institutions and organisations at the current moment. Drawing on empirical material from the two case study sites, we suggest that museums' community engagement programmes could be seen as fitting within a broader landscape of care, and we conceptualise their activities as expressions of progressive localism.

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Section: Community Engagement Work In Museums: Policy Contexts and Prmentioning

confidence: 99%

Museums’ community engagement schemes, austerity and practices of care in two local museum services

Morse

Munro

2015

Social & Cultural Geography

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“…In their respective articles Richard Sandell (2003), Vikki McCall (2009) and Graham Black (2010 look at the various criteria museums should meet to engage with their users in the "great issues of the day" and to actively support community empowerment.…”

Section: Memorial Museumsmentioning

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Collections create connections: stitching the lives of marginalised women on the national memory canvas

Merwe

2015

Museum Management and Curatorship

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In his work Past beyond memory: Evolution, museums, colonialism, Tony Bennett asks how museums can "shed the legacy of evolutionary conceptions and colonial science, so that they can contribute to the development and management of cultural diversity more effectively". This question is of particular pertinence in the South African context where for a long time the material found in public or government-funded museums on those not from the dominant sectors of society presented these marginalised people as "objects rather than citizens and individual actors in their own right". Issues of inclusion or connection and exclusion are central to democracy -who feels connected to civil society, who does not, and why? Who feels their voice is heard and who does not?"Over the past few decades a number of community embroidery projects have been initiated in formerly marginalised areas. These projects have made a name for themselves in terms of their artistic merit and have participated in exhibitions both nationally and internationally.Proponents of these initiatives claim that they go beyond connecting these craft artists with a wider audience. This paper will discuss how these collections of embroidered story cloths can contribute to a more inclusive society by combatting disadvantage, empowering communities and developing social capital so that people can have an informed involvement in the creation of an inclusive South African national memory.

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“…If cultural policies are assigned little weight by voters, or by those standing to be representatives, then it would be hardly surprising to see them appearing as distinctly low priority to executives, legislatures and assemblies. The extent to which cultural policies are assigned such a lowly status can be questioned, even if there is a common assumption, and some evidence, that such is, indeed, the case (Gray, 2009;McCall, 2009;Gray & Wingfield, 2011). In such circumstances the emphasis of public policy would be on political issues that are seen as being matters of 'high politics', matters over which central political figures have real autonomy, rather than matters of 'low politics', undertaken by politicians away from the central core of the system, and often at provincial or local levels within political systems (Bulpitt, 1983, 3).…”

Section: Representative Democracy Through Elected Representativesmentioning

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Democratic cultural policy: democratic forms and policy consequences

Gray

2012

International Journal of Cultural Policy

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Social Policy and Cultural Services: A Study of Scottish Border Museums as Implementers of Social Inclusion

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Cited by 18 publications

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Museums’ community engagement schemes, austerity and practices of care in two local museum services

Museums’ community engagement schemes, austerity and practices of care in two local museum services

Collections create connections: stitching the lives of marginalised women on the national memory canvas

Democratic cultural policy: democratic forms and policy consequences

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