Oakley, K orcid.org/0000-0002-5225-0410 and Ward, J orcid.org/0000-0003-3726-9217 (2018) The art of the good life: culture and sustainable prosperity. Cultural Trends, 27 (1). pp. 4-17. ISSN 0954-8963
Abstract
The creative economy has seen cultural policy swallowed up by a narrow vision of economic growth, its impacts on the urban fabric captured by property developers, and its promises of meaningful activity challenged by the exploitation and inequities of cultural labour markets. So it needs to be abandoned and re-thought, but on what basis? This paper analyses the potential for cultural work to encourage alternative visions of the “good life”, in particular, how it might encourage a kind of “sustainable prosperity” wherein human flourishing is not linked to high levels of material consumption but rather the capabilities to engage with cultural and creative practices and communities. We critically explore these ideas in three locations: a London borough, a deindustrialised city in England’s midlands and a rural town on the Welsh/English border. Across these diverse landscapes and socio-economic contexts, we look at different versions of the good life and at the possibilities and constraints of cultural activity as a way of achieving kinds of sustainable prosperity.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | (c) 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Cultural Trends on 19 Jan 2018 available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/09548963.2018.1415408 |
Keywords: | sustainable prosperity; cultural policy; cultural work |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > Performance and Cultural Industries (Leeds) The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Media & Communication (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number ESRC ES/M010163/1 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 08 Nov 2017 15:49 |
Last Modified: | 19 Jul 2019 00:42 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/09548963.2018.1415408 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:123614 |