Full Description
Cultural Policy: Perspectives on the Island of Ireland draws together a wide range of academic perspectives and disciplines that relate to cultural policy in the context of the island of Ireland (Ireland and Northern Ireland). Through the study of the unique context of this intertwined two-polity island, this collection aims to further the examination of the "situated" nature of cultural policy amongst people and place. Contributions from media, European integration, festivals, arts and education, sustainable development and cultural participation and work bring attention to, and open up, the interdisciplinary dialogue on cultural policy studies on, of, and for the island and beyond. By way of its particular environment, this collection also serves as a call for greater recognition and reflexivity in cultural policy studies regarding how people and place define what we think we know about cultural policy.
This book will be of interest to local and international policy and cultural policy scholars as well as practitioners in policy, arts, culture and creativity. The collection situates a range of industries, practices and sectors in shared, local, complex and international contexts and frames, revealing the multi-level operation of policy governances from the domestic to the global. The findings from the specific context of the island of Ireland thus have relevance for other nation-states and regions with similar intertwined jurisdictions and resulting tensions. More generally, this body of multi- and interdisciplinary academic research on and of Ireland deepens our understanding of locally situated, but globally connected, cross-border and transnational cultural policy studies.
Contents
Contents
List of illustrations vii
About the Contributors ix
Acknowledgements xi
Acronyms and Abbreviations xiii
1 Introduction: Cultural Policy on the Island of Ireland 1
VICTORIA DURRER, ALI FITZGIBBON AND KERRY McCALL MAGAN
SECTION 1
Workings 27
2 Working Conditions of Artists: An Interdisciplinary Study of Space for Dance on the Island of Ireland 29
VICTORIA DURRER, PETER CAMPBELL AND AOIFE McGRATH
3 Ecologies of Cultural Production and State Supports for Irish Cultural Workers 48
RUTH BARTON
4 Addressing Barriers to Cultural Participation for People with Disabilities in Ireland: Towards Bridging Disability and Cultural Policies 64
DELIA FERRI AND ANN LEAHY
SECTION 2
Situations 81
5 Tracing the Emergence and Evolution of Arts Festivals in Cultural Policy in Ireland since the 1970s 83
DANIELLE LYNCH
6 Seeking External Validation: Bidding for the European Capital of Culture 2020 99
PATRICK COLLINS
7 Broadcasting in Ireland: Public Service Media Policy as Cultural Policy 121
PHIL RAMSEY
SECTION 3
Junctions 137
8 Arts Initiatives in Schools: Resourcing or Outsourcing? 139
AILBHE KENNY AND DOROTHY MORRISSEY
9 Belfast, the Music City - An Autoethnography 154
KIM‑MARIE SPENCE
10 The Impact of the European Union on Ireland's Tax Policies for Audiovisual Industries: Between a National and Supranational Discourse 176
MARIA O'BRIEN
11 Sustainability in Arts Policy on the Island of Ireland 193
ALI FITZGIBBON
Index 217
