Cultural and Media Policy Studies News and Events
New Centre Research Paper (9) published
The Emergence of Culture-led Regeneration: A policy concept and its discontents
by Jonathan Vickery
This is the most recent paper in the Centre's peer-reviewed Research Papers series. Its objective is to provide the broadest overview-analysis available on the recent emergence of the concept of ‘culture-led regeneration’. It tracks the development of 'regeneration' issues through the plethora of national policies and policy frameworks within which the term has functioned. It essentially covers the period 1997—2007, concentrating particularly on the shift in policy priorities under New Labour in the UK between 1999-2004. Through a consideration of key urban, social, cultural and arts policies, the paper identifies the political motives and Government interests which have animated, and frustrated, this history.
The paper is available as a PDF for download from the Centre Publications page here.
Director gives keynote to Global Culture Forum in Seoul
At the invitation of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Republic of Korea, Professor Oliver Bennett recently gave one of the keynote presentations at the Global Culture Forum in Seoul in March.
Hot off the press
Management and Creativity: from creative industries to creative management
by Dr Chris Bilton
This book was published by Blackwells in August 2006. The book draws on Chris’s experience teaching the MA in Creative and Media Enterprises to challenge the stereotypical opposition between ‘creatives’ and ‘suits’. Creativity, he suggests, is not just about spontaneous discovery and inspiration, it is also a self-conscious, deliberately managed process. Similarly, management is not only shaped by rational processes, it also involves insight, intuition, creativity and risk. Described in Management Today as ‘outstanding and provocative’, the book explores the relationship between the management of creativity and creative approaches to management.
Further information about the book, including reviews and ordering details, is available on the Blackwells website. The book is also available from Amazon.
Download the podcast with Chris Bilton on creative management, talking about some of the issues raised in the book.
Art: Key Contemporary Thinkers
by Jonathan Vickery and Diarmuid Costello
Jonathan Vickery, Course Director of the MA International Design and Communication Management in the Centre for Cultural Policy Studies has collaborated with Diarmuid Costello from Warwick’s philosophy department to produce a new anthology of critical writing on art and culture. Featuring an international array of writers, the anthology covers many of the ideas, theories and thinkers that have helped form our very concept of art and our frameworks of interpretation.
This was published by Berg of Oxford in January 2007.