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Intellectuals and Cultural Policy
Edited by Jeremy Ahearne and Oliver Bennett

Intellectuals and policy analysts might appear to inhabit two different worlds. Intellectuals aspire to articulate issues of universal concern; policy analysts attend to the detail of specific measures and programmes. How far do these common assumptions match up to reality? What happens when intellectuals engage with cultural institutions and the machinery of government? And how far is cultural policy connected to a history of ideas?

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.

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.