{"title":"Conclusion: Where next for cultural intermediation?","authors":"Phil Jones, Paul Long, B. Perry","doi":"10.1332/policypress/9781447344995.003.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447344995.003.0017","url":null,"abstract":"The book concludes by arguing not about the need to increase funding for cultural intermediaries, but rather for a critical examination of the role of culture in tacking entrenched inequality. The cultural sector is largely a closed shop, dominated by the white middle classes in south east England. Realistically, only the very talented and very lucky can count on the creative sector as a route out of poverty, regardless of how many well-meaning cultural activities run in deprived neighbourhoods. The chapter calls for a clearer delineation of different types of intermediary function, noting that the excellent work done by intermediaries based in deprived communities tackling skills and confidence building should not be unreflexively conflated with the activities of large arts organisations engaging in wider practices of marketing cities to middle class consumers. The chapter concludes that cultural intermediation will continue to play a role in building confidence and skills among a relatively small number of people. Unfortunately, in the face of a right-wing agenda that seems determined to entrench inequality, the capacity of cultural activity to transform society remains highly limited.","PeriodicalId":182739,"journal":{"name":"Cultural intermediaries connecting communities","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129048628","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"State-sponsored amateurism: cultural intermediation, participation and non‑professional production","authors":"Paul Long","doi":"10.1332/policypress/9781447344995.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447344995.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter asks: what roles does participation as production have in cultural intermediation projects? How are individuals afforded agency in the making of cultural works and connected to the cultural ecology, between activities that are publicly funded, commercial and homemade? The chapter proceeds with an exploration of a contemporary injunction to be creative. It then deals with some of the prompts for thinking with the label of amateurism in relation to an understanding of participation and processes of intermediation. Drawing on indicative examples of activity in Balsall Heath is an exploration of a form of ‘sponsored amateurism’, a label describing every day creative work amongst non-professionals engendered by intermediaries and cultural policy. The chapter concludes with reflections on a field of production that falls outside of the obvious attention of policymakers and cultural intermediation objectives.","PeriodicalId":182739,"journal":{"name":"Cultural intermediaries connecting communities","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131704069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Screening films for social change: origins, aims and evolution of the Bristol Radical Film Festival","authors":"L. Ager","doi":"10.1332/policypress/9781447344995.003.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447344995.003.0011","url":null,"abstract":"Festivals have tremendous power to engage diverse audiences with new forms of cultural consumption, but also provide opportunities for enlightening debate and encouraging action for social change. The Bristol Radical Film Festival (BRFF) takes place annually in venues throughout the city of Bristol, in the South West of England, presenting a curated programme of ‘radical’ films and documentaries which are screened in non-traditional venues. Drawing on ideas of Latin American radical film making, the organisers explicitly sought to use the festival to connect community activists within the city. This chapter examines how festival organisers used the cultural capital of their association with the University of the West of England to help legitimise their activities, under the radar of university managers to create a novel form of societal impact.","PeriodicalId":182739,"journal":{"name":"Cultural intermediaries connecting communities","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130671762","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Intervention: Some cities","authors":"D. Burwood","doi":"10.1332/policypress/9781447344995.003.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447344995.003.0007","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter contains reflections from photographer Dan Burwood about his Some Cities project. This combined classes for budding photographers, community-based commissions for new photographic work and a social media aggregator which allowed locals to upload their own images. The varied communities of the city were thus given a shared platform to present their different understandings of the city through their own visual practice. Although the project was a success, the chapter also reflects on how projects designed to bring communities together themselves ebb and flow. The author and his collaborators moved on to new schemes at the end of the project, not all of which share the community focus of Some Cities.\u0000","PeriodicalId":182739,"journal":{"name":"Cultural intermediaries connecting communities","volume":"381 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115608262","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Strategies for overcoming research obstacles: developing the ‘Ordsall method’ as a process for ethnographically informed impact in communities","authors":"J. Symons","doi":"10.1332/policypress/9781447344995.003.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447344995.003.0014","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter describes how a £1million research project on exploring the role of ‘cultural intermediaries’ and ‘hard-to-reach’ communities was perceived when carried out in practice. A low-income community in Salford, NW England was a prime target for research. However questions about ‘culture’ among those already living precariously on very limited incomes and with few options for work produced a strong and negative reaction. These perceptions stimulated a project redesign to match local priorities and so ultimately generated enthusiastic engagement and participation in the research. The adaptive and responsive approach to project design and delivery helped achieve impact through our research activities and the Ordsall Method was born from that experience.","PeriodicalId":182739,"journal":{"name":"Cultural intermediaries connecting communities","volume":"114 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114212664","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Intervention: street art, faith and cultural engagement","authors":"M. Ali","doi":"10.1332/policypress/9781447344995.003.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447344995.003.0015","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter presents the personal reflections of painter Mohammed Ali on his experience as a creative producer and in his intermediary role as the founder of Soul City Arts, a cultural organisation located in the Sparkbrook area of Birmingham that serves the locality and city while working with an international scope.","PeriodicalId":182739,"journal":{"name":"Cultural intermediaries connecting communities","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124774411","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The creative economy, the creative class and cultural intermediation","authors":"O. Brook, D. O’Brien, Mark Taylor","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvhrd1cg.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvhrd1cg.8","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter presents an overview of recent work on cultural intermediaries and the ‘creative class’ in relation to social inequality. The chapter looks at Britain’s ‘creative class’ in relation to workforce patterns, tastes, social attitudes, and their faith in the transformative power of culture. Ultimately the chapter suggests we need caution when thinking about the impact of cultural intermediaries on social inequality.","PeriodicalId":182739,"journal":{"name":"Cultural intermediaries connecting communities","volume":"150 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116350192","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}