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Pride in place - Beyond the metrics: Insights from the Feeling Towns project
Get PDFThis brief uses insights from Feeling Towns to make recommendations for UK Government, local authorities and cultural-heritage bodies about the significance of understanding pride in shaping and evaluating policy.This is a newer version of the document Marsh, Nicky, Howcroft, Michael J and Owen, Joseph (2024) "Pride in place" beyond the metrics: insights from the Feeling Towns project (AHRC Place Programme Policy Brief Series) Arts and Humanities Research Council 3pp.https://doi.org/10.36399/gla.pubs.32192
The cultural politics of civic pride through Hull UK City of Culture 2017
Get PDFPurpose: This article explores the cultural politics of civic pride through Hull's year as UK City of Culture (UKCoC) in 2017. It unpicks some of the socio-political meanings and values of civic pride in Hull and critiques the ways in which pride, as an indicator of identity and belonging, was mobilised by UKCoC organisers, funders and city leaders. It argues for more nuanced and critical approaches to the consideration and evaluation of pride through cultural mega events (CMEs) that can take account of pride's multiple forms, meanings and temporalities. Design/methodology/approach: A multidimensional, mixed methods approach is taken, incorporating the critical analysis of Hull2017 promotional materials and events and original interviews with a range of stakeholders. Findings: The desire for socio-economic change and renewed identity has dominated Hull's post-industrial sense of self and is often expressed through the language of pride. This article argues that UKCoC organisers, cognisant of this, crafted and tightly controlled a singular pride narrative to create the feeling of change and legitimise the entrepreneurial re-branding of the city. At the same time, UKCoC organisers overlooked the opportunity to engage with and potentially reactivate the political culture of Hull, which like other “left behind” or “structurally disadvantaged” places, is becoming increasingly anti-political. Originality/value: Through the case study of a relatively unresearched and under-represented city, this paper contributes to cultural policy literatures concerned with critically assessing the benefits and shortcomings of Cultural Mega Events and to a more specific field concerning Cities of Culture and the political cultures of their host cities. This paper also contributes to an emerging literature on the centrality of pride through the UK's post-Brexit Levelling Up agenda, suggesting that pride in place is becoming figured as a “universal theme” of the neoliberal city script.</p
Pride(s) in place(s): interdisciplinary perspectives on pride
No full textThe UK government’s post-Brexit Levelling Up agenda highlights the political value of pride, with “restoring local pride” one of its guiding missions. France’s ‘Action Coeur de Ville’ aims to revitalise the urban centres of small and medium-sized towns and many Japanese municipalities have adopted ‘civic pride charters’ which explicitly define how local pride is constituted and managed. The collective act of reclaiming and celebrating pride has been enormously powerful in addressing stigmatisation of many kinds, for effecting legal and social change, and for providing a positive sense of identity and community for many. Yet, state-led boosterism often fails to account for such collectives, nor addresses the ideologies and social forces that facilitate and reconfigure the emotional experiences of pride, particularly its 'us' and 'them' dynamics. Nevertheless, pride can be a powerful instrument of social structuring that prompts diverse political, public and geographical imaginaries. In this session, scholars from diverse disciplines and geographies explore pride's multitudes and their relationships to policy, policy-making and political behaviour
Gay Bod: civic and LGBTQ+ pride after Brexit in a city on the margins of the UK and Europe
No full textIn 2017, Kingston-upon-Hull celebrated becoming UK City of Culture (‘Hull2017’). Organisers of the cultural mega-event hoped to restore civic pride amongst residents of Hull, which had been severely affected ever since its North Sea fishing industry collapsed, and counter the marginality often projected onto Hull in wider UK representations of the city. They unexpectedly also had to manage the meanings of Hull’s high ‘Leave’ vote in the Brexit referendum, which opted to put UK onto the margins of Europe. Examining Hull2017’s LGBTQ+ programming strand, the chapter discusses how spatial and sexual marginalities interacted in appeals to LGBTQ+ and civic pride
Understanding pride in place: A place-based creative Think Kit from Feeling Towns
Get PDFThis Think Kit is for anyone who seeks to engage people about pride in place. It uses creative methodologies and takes a place-based, co-production approach
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No full textPride and Herefordshire: Partner Report for Rural Media
Get PDFThe Feeling Towns project, in collaboration with Rural Media, explored what pride in place meant to Herefordshire. Research was undertaken across summer 2022 and used a variety of qualitative research methods, including semi-structured interviews and workshops. We focused on what the notion of civic pride means for young people and on understanding the relationship between volunteering and pride in place
Levelling Up, affective governance and tensions within “pride in place”
No full textThe ‘pride in place’ mission of the UK Government’s Levelling Up agenda has foregrounded the importance of feelings in local and national development strategies. While pride in place gestures to the emotional symptoms of geographical inequality and the so-called left behind, it does not address their structural causes. This article explores how the lens of pride, and the affective governance it demands, has been used to reimagine place in UK policy. We argue that governance has taken a therapeutic and palliative turn, and that the pride in place mission obscures ideological inconsistencies in policymaking. The article explains how the government’s narrow conception of pride as a mechanism of affective governance illustrates tensions in places at different scales: between national and local issues; between public and private spheres; and between individual and collective identities. It claims that a more meaningful understanding of pride must be predicated on people’s collective capacity for felt and emotional responses. Crucially, any metrics for pride must capture that complexity to help restore social infrastructure in places
"Pride in place" beyond the metrics: insights from the Feeling Towns project
No full textCurrent metrics for measuring “pride in place” are underdeveloped, and the language of pride has been used inconsistently across Levelling Up policy materials. This brief uses insights from the Feeling Towns project to make recommendations for Levelling Up stakeholders about the significance of understanding pride in shaping and evaluating policy. A newer version of this document is available at https://doi.org/10.5258/SOTON/P009
Pride and Northgate: Partner report for Darlington Borough Council
Get PDFThe Feeling Towns project, in collaboration with the needs of Darlington Borough Council, explored the meaning of pride in place in the Northgate ward of the town. Research was undertaken across summer 2022, when funders and policymakers were putting more political weight on evaluating pride in place. We spoke with approximately 100 people using a variety of research methods, including interviews, fieldwork, surveys and a facilitated creative workshop
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