Bell, D orcid.org/0000-0002-0300-7756 and Orozco, L (2021) Neighbourhood arts spaces in place: cultural infrastructure and participation on the outskirts of the creative city. The International Journal of Cultural Policy, 27. pp. 87-101. ISSN 1028-6632
Abstract
Set in the context of tensions between ‘community development’ and ‘creative cities’ policy agendas, which often implicitly privilege large-scale city-centre cultural assets, this paper discusses cultural policy and arts provision in three neighbourhoods in the city of Leeds, UK. It uses findings from a pilot research project centred on three small cultural organisations based in neighbourhoods in Leeds’ ‘outer inner city’. Each venue works in and with its neighbourhood in distinct ways and has a different vision of the contribution that they can and should make to their locales and to the city as a whole. The paper works with research on these organisations to explore the tensions around the ambition and reach of small venues in the light of this policy context, and the scale of the neighbourhood in cultural policy. We argue that city-scale policy-making risks missing local particularities and erasing the role and contribution of small and geographically peripheral initiatives.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an author produced version of a paper published in International Journal of Cultural Policy. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Arts venues, participation, neighbourhoods, audiences |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of English (Leeds) The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Geography (Leeds) > SOG: Cities & Social Justice (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 23 Jan 2020 10:30 |
Last Modified: | 11 Feb 2022 20:12 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/10286632.2019.1709059 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:155968 |