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Introduction: cultural policy on the island of Ireland
No full textCultural policy and the administration and management of culture on the island of Ireland constitute a process of cooperation and competition within and between polities; one that is especially influenced by translocal mobilities, networks, practices and subjectivities whether urban, rural or border situated. On the island, the production and dissemination of symbolic goods relate not only to socio-political, historical and cultural notions of identity but also to the ways in which entire industries, sectors and governments may be intertwined economically, administratively and culturally. This introduction articulates the range, depth and history of cultural policy scholarship on the island of Ireland (Ireland and Northern Ireland) from multiple disciplines. Positioning scholarship on the island as part of a broader, global field of cultural policy studies, this introduction argues for the unique contribution that the two-polity island can bring to situated study of cultural policy. It equally argues for greater questioning of how knowledge is formed in the study and making of cultural policy. It seeks to promote further exchange and dialogue among policy scholars as well as practitioners in policy, arts, culture and creativity
Cultural Policy is Local: Understanding Cultural Policy as Situated Practice
No full textDavid Stevenson - ORCID: 0000-0002-8977-1818
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8977-1818This Open Access edited collection calls for a greater understanding of ‘the local’ within the ways the arts, culture and creative practices are governed, promoted, regulated, resourced and valued. Cultural policy studies tends to privilege the national (and international) as the primary site at which cultural policy is enacted, and focuses on the ‘local’ as a case study of practice, rather than a site of policy in its own right. While this may make global policy transfer manageable for national policy agencies, it ignores the contingent relationships, diverse geographies and distinct identities of localities.
This volume addresses this gap and is structured around three themes: disciplining the local, which examines key concepts from different academic fields of study; managing the local, which identifies policy approaches that engage with the idea of ‘the local’ in different ways; and practising the local, which offers case studies of how ‘local’ cultural policies are being enacted in places of differing scale and geography.https://link.springer.com/book/9783031323119#:~:text=Cultural%20policy%20studies%20tends%20to,policy%20in%20its%20own%20right.aheadofprintaheadofprin
Working Conditions of Artists: An Interdisciplinary Study of Space for Dance on the Island of Ireland
No full textThis chapter builds on existing research in cultural policy studies and dance scholarship regarding the experience of work in the cultural sector by drawing attention to considerations of space in working conditions for dance. Space refers to both the location or environment, as well as the expanse (material and conceptual), in which work happens. We argue that dance workers’ development and practice is impacted by, and occurs within, space that is physical, temporal, social and conceptual. Grounding the discussion in experiences of a particular socio-cultural context – the two-polity space of the island of Ireland – this chapter discusses findings from two cross-border studies mixing dance practice-as-research and social science methods to explore the working conditions and experiences of dance practitioners: i) the ‘Dance Counts’ survey 2021 and ii) ‘Dance Conversations’. These studies were designed by, and involved collaboration between, two social science researchers (Durrer and Campbell) and a dance scholar (McGrath). The discussion of dance workers’ experience of space considers (i) physical space and (ii) social and collective space, and how they relate to, and impact, dancers’ experiences of space for dance. In its approach, this chapter furthers the case for the potential of interdisciplinary approaches to build understanding of the lived experiences of artistic, creative and cultural practice
Situating the local in global cultural policy
Full text linkDavid Stevenson - ORCID 0000-0002-8977-1818
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8977-1818From the growth of city regions to the calls for more localism, engaging with ‘the local’ has become an increasingly important part of cultural policy rhetoric in many countries (UNESCO, 2013; UCLG, 2019). Yet despite apparent recognition that the practices of culture are always situated (and hence local), contemporary cultural policy research tends to privilege the national or international as the primary site at which cultural policy is enacted and thus, can be reformed (Durrer, et al., 2018). For all of its increasing use ‘the local’ remains abstract, seemingly deployed to legitimate activity that is of debatable benefit to the places and practices imagined by its invocation.https://doi.org/10.1080/09548963.2019.164478028pubpub
Towards Global Cultural Policy Studies
No full textThese expectations are well illustrated by the European Union’s motto, quoted above in its official languages. ‘United in Diversity’ represents the ways in which culture is assigned the role of fostering cooperation whilst symbolising and celebrating individuality and difference. However, this motto, like much of culture and cultural policy, has to do with power, distinction, and protectionism as well as common citizenship, alliances, and bonds. This is due to the global context confronting cultural policies: regional unions, nation-states, and citizens. Consideration, then, of a global sense of cultural policy has much potential to illuminate the social and political world, and has been our goal with this Handbook
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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