Culture and the Public Sphere

ISBN-13: 9780415112635 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 240 str.

Jim McGuigan;McGuigan Jim

Opis

This study addresses cultural policy from a critical and multi-dimensional perspective. It is informed by some of the most advanced ideas in contemporary social theory, drawing particularly upon the work of Pierre Bourdiew, Michel Foucault and Jurgen Habermas. The book challenges the commonly accepted instrumentalist agenda for cultural policy studies and proposes an alternative view of cultural policy as a matter for the widest possible critical and cultural debate. Illustrating his case with examples from recent cultural policy initiatives in Britain, the United States and Australia, McGuigan considers a range of topics which include: the American culture ware; the flattening of cultural hierarchies and the blurring of cultural boundaries according to a postmodernist and petit-burgeois imaginary; the rise of managerialist and market reasoning in public arts administration and broadcasting; the post-Fordist restructuring of the cultural industries; urban regeneration strategies under conditions of de-industrialization and worsening social exclusion; and national culture, museums, themeparks and the global phenomenon of heritage tourism.

Spis treści

Introduction; Chapter 1 Cultural Policy Studies; Chapter 2 Questions of Value; Chapter 3 From State to Market; Chapter 4 Cultural Industries; Chapter 5 Urban Regeneration; Chapter 6 National Heritage; Chapter 7 Identity, ‘Race’ and Citizenship; Chapter 8 Censorship and Moral Regulation; Chapter 9 Culture and the Public Sphere;

O autorze

Jim McGuigan is Principal Lecturer in Communication, Culture and Media at Coventry University.