Understanding culture-led local development: A critique of alternative theoretical explanations

Sacco, Pier Luigi; Ferilli, Guido; Blessi, Giorgio Tavano

doi:10.1177/0042098013512876

Cited by 94 publications

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“…In the case of Boyle, the festival has very successfully balanced community inclusiveness with a high standard of cultural content, avoiding what Sacco et al (2014) (drawing on Amartya Sen) refer to as cultural parochialism (original emphasis) (2814), where inclusion and participation can become the sole focus of the process at the expense of more instrumental and market-oriented content. However, the impact of austerity policies and cuts in key institutional funding in particular have meant that in its current format, wider opportunities for the festival are not immediately possible, and the question of whether and how it may decide to innovate to contribute further to local resilience and resourcefulness agendas (and whether this should become part of a strategic role for it) is a potential future debate for the festival and the locality it represents.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rural Arts Festivals as Contributors to Rural Development and Resilience

Mahon

Hyyryläinen

2019

Sociologia Ruralis

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This article explores how two rural arts festivals, one in the town of Boyle (Boyle Arts Festival), in Western Ireland and the other in the municipality of Mäntyharju, (Salmela Festival) Eastern Finland, contribute to the development of their respective localities and communities via two different models of festival implementation. Both festivals have a major focus on visual art along with other events such as music and enjoy strong reputations for promoting quality artistic experiences. Drawing on the concepts of cultural capital, resilience and resourcefulness, the article investigates how the arts can work in providing wide‐ranging possibilities for engaging with local development activities and shaping local development agendas in diverse and changing rural contexts. The research is based on semi‐structured interviews with 15 festival contributors and individuals in institutional support roles. It finds that an emphasis on community‐focused, quality of life priorities that is a feature of the Boyle festival increasingly presents challenges to sourcing funding, and that an entrepreneurial approach applied in the case of the Salmela festival, while economically successful, does not provide the same scope for community participation. Both approaches have implications for the ways the festivals impact on local development processes.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rural Arts Festivals as Contributors to Rural Development and Resilience

Mahon

Hyyryläinen

2019

Sociologia Ruralis

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“…However, in the rise and wave of exploitation, or "culture-led regeneration", the cultural development game seems far from being a "win-win" one [5]. Cultural heritage is implicated in the complicated choices made by local and ordinary individuals in the face of political control and capital accumulation [6].…”

Section: Yuecheng's Dragon Mother Templementioning

confidence: 99%

Compared Study of Authentic Culture on Three Guangdong Ancestral Temples

Wen¹

2017

WJET

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In this article, three Guangdong's ancestral temples are taken as case studies to explore strategies for cultural heritage conservation. Heritage conservation is very important not only for our missing of past, but in order that our own cultural identity can be formed today. In China, different stakeholders hold various views on heritage protection and conflicts often take place. Particularly, many folk religion's cultural heritages face a dangerous scenario and could even be damaged or destroyed for a variety of "reason". This article tries to re-examine fundamental values and assessment criteria for cultural heritage conservation. The authenticity is a core concept involved with those of issues. Based on the views of culture place, the author puts forward the concept of "emic culture authenticity" as a hinge to explore authentic culture ecology of heritage and its model, to facilitate the cultural heritage conservation and reuse by the strategies of classification and adaptation.

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“…Thus, besides environmental and social sustainability, the Otaru approach can be taken as an interesting example of cultural sustainability e in the sense of maintaining the authenticity of the city's symbolic assets, to be regarded not as a reality to be preserved by preventing any instance of change, but as a reality that may evolve to a fair degree according to its intrinsic cultural transformational logic, rather than becoming instrumental to the accomplishment of extrinsic goals (e.g. Sacco, Ferilli, & Tavano Blessi, 2014).…”

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confidence: 99%