All Outputs (35)

Improving Public Funding Allocation to Reduce Geographical Inequalities (2025)
Report
Hoole, C., Pike, A., Green, A., Agarwal, S., Ayres, S., Davies, C., Davies, J., Emmerich, M., Gilmour, J., Mutibwa, D. H., Russell, M., Taylor, A., & Velthuis, S. (2025). Improving Public Funding Allocation to Reduce Geographical Inequalities. ESRC and MHCLG

The UK faces severe geographical inequalities that manifest across multiple dimensions – including productivity, income, education, and health – and in different ways within and between areas. These multifaceted issues and their spatial expression cr... Read More about Improving Public Funding Allocation to Reduce Geographical Inequalities.

The UK Creative Industries Public Funding Allocations and Investment Review (2025)
Report
Mutibwa, D. H. (2025). The UK Creative Industries Public Funding Allocations and Investment Review. Economic and Social Research Council and Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

The creative industries in the UK are not only the country’s most powerful engines of growth, but also an important source of innovation and welfare development.
British creative industries have also been identified as a critical asset to help build... Read More about The UK Creative Industries Public Funding Allocations and Investment Review.

The Queer Global South: Transnational Video Activism Between China and Africa (2025)
Book Chapter
Bao, H. (2025). The Queer Global South: Transnational Video Activism Between China and Africa. In H. Bao, & D. H. Mutibwa (Eds.), Entanglements and Ambivalences: Africa and China Encounters in Media and Culture (235-260). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003581949-14

This chapter examines grassroots cinematic connections and video activism between China and Africa by taking the Queer University as a case study. Through semi-structured online interviews with some Queer University organisers and participants in 202... Read More about The Queer Global South: Transnational Video Activism Between China and Africa.

Introduction: Entangled Histories and Ambivalent Feelings in Africa-China Relations (2025)
Book Chapter
Bao, H., & Mutibwa, D. H. (2025). Introduction: Entangled Histories and Ambivalent Feelings in Africa-China Relations. In H. Bao, & D. H. Mutibwa (Eds.), Entanglements and Ambivalences: Africa and China Encounters in Media and Culture (1-15). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003581949-1

Two prominent developments in global geopolitics in the twenty-first century have been the rise of Africa and China, and the growing prominence of their entangled histories and present. 1 But these histories, and the present they have engendered, are... Read More about Introduction: Entangled Histories and Ambivalent Feelings in Africa-China Relations.

Digital Economy Industries, the Logic of Globalisation, and the Engineered and Entangled Cultures of Production and Consumption Behind the China-Africa Nexus (2025)
Book Chapter
Mutibwa, D. (2025). Digital Economy Industries, the Logic of Globalisation, and the Engineered and Entangled Cultures of Production and Consumption Behind the China-Africa Nexus. In H. Bao, & D. Mutibwa (Eds.), Entanglements and Ambivalences: Africa and China Encounters in Media and Culture. Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

This chapter discusses China-Africa relations in the development of digital economy industries within the context of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and Digital Silk Road (DSR) flagship. In doing so, the chapter explores related encounters, en... Read More about Digital Economy Industries, the Logic of Globalisation, and the Engineered and Entangled Cultures of Production and Consumption Behind the China-Africa Nexus.

Policy Review: The Digital Arts Policy (2023–2025) in the Service of the Arts Council of Ireland/An Chomhairle Ealaíon’s Making Great Art Work Strategy (2025)
Journal Article
Mutibwa, D. (2025). Policy Review: The Digital Arts Policy (2023–2025) in the Service of the Arts Council of Ireland/An Chomhairle Ealaíon’s Making Great Art Work Strategy. Irish Journal of Arts Management and Cultural Policy, 11(1), 39-58

The Arts Council of Ireland/An Chomhairle Ealaíon (ACI) launched its first Digital Arts Policy (2023–2025) — abbreviated throughout this review article to DAP — in early November 2023. It did so in the capacity of a national development agency that i... Read More about Policy Review: The Digital Arts Policy (2023–2025) in the Service of the Arts Council of Ireland/An Chomhairle Ealaíon’s Making Great Art Work Strategy.

Entanglements and Ambivalences: Africa and China Encounters in Media and Culture (2025)
Book
Bao, H., & Mutibwa, D. H. (Eds.). (2025). Entanglements and Ambivalences: Africa and China Encounters in Media and Culture. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003581949

This book explores the media and cultural exchanges between Africa and China in the twenty-first century against the backdrop of the rise of Africa and China in global geopolitics. It situates these cultural encounters in historical and contemporary... Read More about Entanglements and Ambivalences: Africa and China Encounters in Media and Culture.

Public Participation in Policymaking (2025)
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Evans, J., Davies, C., & Mutibwa, D. H. (2025). Public Participation in Policymaking. Economics and Social Science Research Council and MHCLG

Involving the public in local government decisions fosters democratic participation and ensures that citizens influence policies that affect their lives.

This document by John Evans and Ceri Davies (National Centre for Social Research) and Daniel... Read More about Public Participation in Policymaking.

Visioning the Future of University - Local Authority Cultural Partnerships Beyond Austere Times (2024)
Book Chapter
Mutibwa, D. H., Rogers, C., & Hanton, A. (2024). Visioning the Future of University - Local Authority Cultural Partnerships Beyond Austere Times. In D. Amigoni, & E. Wilson (Eds.), Universities, Local Authorities and Culture-based Partnerships: Case Studies, Reflections and Evidence from REF Impact Case Studies (19-30). National Centre for Academic and Cultural Exchange

Cultural provision and associated partnerships play a significant role in enriching people’s lives through inspiration, education and capacity-building. Local authorities have been their greatest
funders. But with budgets under unprecedented pressur... Read More about Visioning the Future of University - Local Authority Cultural Partnerships Beyond Austere Times.

Leicestershire's Cultural Assets: CULTURAL ASSETS An Output of the Visioning a Cultural and Creative County: Developing Leicestershire County Council’s Cultural Strategy (VCCC) Project (2024)
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Frost, S., & Mutibwa, D. H. (2024). Leicestershire's Cultural Assets: CULTURAL ASSETS An Output of the Visioning a Cultural and Creative County: Developing Leicestershire County Council’s Cultural Strategy (VCCC) Project. Nottingham: UKRI Research England

It is a time of crisis for regional government. The Local Government Association (LGA) estimates that English councils are facing a funding gap of almost £3bn over the next two years due to inflation, the National Living Wage, energy costs and ongoi... Read More about Leicestershire's Cultural Assets: CULTURAL ASSETS An Output of the Visioning a Cultural and Creative County: Developing Leicestershire County Council’s Cultural Strategy (VCCC) Project.

Policy Brief - Pathway to the Development of a Cultural Strategy for Leicestershire County Council (LCC) (2024)
Report
Mutibwa, D. H., Rogers, C., Wills, F., Hanton, A., Frost, S., Berry, S., & Harris, H. (2024). Policy Brief - Pathway to the Development of a Cultural Strategy for Leicestershire County Council (LCC). Research England

Amid persistent austerity and a challenging and uncertain political climate, Leicestershire County Council (LCC) and the University of Nottingham (UoN) have teamed up to coproduce a framework for an inclusive and shared vision of creative and cultura... Read More about Policy Brief - Pathway to the Development of a Cultural Strategy for Leicestershire County Council (LCC).

Visioning a Creative and Cultural County (VCCC) Research-Policy Impact Project: A Blueprint for Developing Leicestershire County Council's Cultural Strategy (2024)
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Mutibwa, D. H., Rogers, C., Wills, F., Hanton, A., Frost, S., Berry, S., & Harris, H. (2024). Visioning a Creative and Cultural County (VCCC) Research-Policy Impact Project: A Blueprint for Developing Leicestershire County Council's Cultural Strategy. UKRI Research England

Amid austerity and a challenging political climate within which local authorities are being compelled to operate, it seems paradoxical that these are exciting times at, and for, Leicestershire County Council (LCC). LCC has just recorded two recent re... Read More about Visioning a Creative and Cultural County (VCCC) Research-Policy Impact Project: A Blueprint for Developing Leicestershire County Council's Cultural Strategy.

Radical Left Culture and Heritage, the Politics of Preservation and Memorialisation, and the Promise of the Metaverse (2024)
Journal Article
Mutibwa, D. H. (2024). Radical Left Culture and Heritage, the Politics of Preservation and Memorialisation, and the Promise of the Metaverse. Heritage, 7(2), 537-575. https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage7020026

Radical left culture and heritage—understood as incarnations of leftist artefacts and praxis both past and present—have taken risks in challenging hegemonic machinations often when it is unpopular to do so. To the ire of hegemons, leftist projects ac... Read More about Radical Left Culture and Heritage, the Politics of Preservation and Memorialisation, and the Promise of the Metaverse.

The (Un)Changing Political Economy of Arts, Cultural and Community Engagement, the Creative Economy and Place-Based Development during Austere Times (2022)
Journal Article
Mutibwa, D. H. (2022). The (Un)Changing Political Economy of Arts, Cultural and Community Engagement, the Creative Economy and Place-Based Development during Austere Times. Societies, 12(5), Article 135. https://doi.org/10.3390/soc12050135

This article explores arts, cultural and community engagement (ACCE) in the context of enduring austerity in England. Working with a methodically crafted synthesis of theoretical perspectives drawn from (1) the critical political economy (CPE) tradit... Read More about The (Un)Changing Political Economy of Arts, Cultural and Community Engagement, the Creative Economy and Place-Based Development during Austere Times.

Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on International Studies in Social Sciences and Humanities (CISOC 2022) (2022)
Book
Barredo-Ibáñez, D., Bérubé, F., López-López, P. C., & Mutibwa, D. H. (2022). Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on International Studies in Social Sciences and Humanities (CISOC 2022). Atlantis Press

This book brings together a selection of papers presented at The 2022 International Conference on International Studies in Social Sciences and Humanities (CISOC 2022), an international event organized at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (Can... Read More about Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on International Studies in Social Sciences and Humanities (CISOC 2022).

Making, New Shanzhai and Countercultural Values: Ethnographies of Contemporary, Innovative and Entrepreneurial Digital Fabrication Communities in Shenzhen, China (2022)
Book Chapter
Mutibwa, D. H., & Xia, B. (2022). Making, New Shanzhai and Countercultural Values: Ethnographies of Contemporary, Innovative and Entrepreneurial Digital Fabrication Communities in Shenzhen, China. In R. Hoyng, & G. Chong (Eds.), Critiquing Communication Innovation: New Media in a Multipolar World (81-113). Michigan State University Press

It is approaching ten years since making and the Maker Movement are said to have reached China. During that time, making has been framed variously and associated with aspirations and values emerging from the international countercultural struggles sp... Read More about Making, New Shanzhai and Countercultural Values: Ethnographies of Contemporary, Innovative and Entrepreneurial Digital Fabrication Communities in Shenzhen, China.

Journalistic work in cultures of protest: A transnational review (2021)
Book Chapter
Mutibwa, D. H. (2022). Journalistic work in cultures of protest: A transnational review. In J. Morrison, J. Birks, & M. Berry (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Political Journalism (363—372). Routledge

Across its history, journalistic work in cultures of protest – by which I mean a sphere of meaning making operating outside dominant media and cultural production contexts – has been associated with a primarily socio-political function. This function... Read More about Journalistic work in cultures of protest: A transnational review.

Contemporary expressions of arts and culture as protest: consonance, dissonance, paradox and opportunities for community development? (2021)
Book Chapter
Mutibwa, D. H. (2021). Contemporary expressions of arts and culture as protest: consonance, dissonance, paradox and opportunities for community development?. In R. R. Meade, & M. Shaw (Eds.), Arts, Culture and Community Development (89-110). Policy Press

The predominance of rich academic analyses of the arts and its use in protest at both macro and meso levels within social movement coalitions has eclipsed work involving other actors, groups and organisations engaging in protest at micro levels outsi... Read More about Contemporary expressions of arts and culture as protest: consonance, dissonance, paradox and opportunities for community development?.

Contemporary expressions of arts and culture as protest: consonance, dissonance, paradox and opportunities for community development? (2021)
Book Chapter
Mutibwa, D. H. (2021). Contemporary expressions of arts and culture as protest: consonance, dissonance, paradox and opportunities for community development?. In R. Meade, & M. Shaw (Eds.), Arts, Culture and Community Development (89-109). Policy Press

The predominance of rich academic analyses of the arts and its use in protest at both macro and meso levels within social movement coalitions has eclipsed work involving other actors, groups and organisations engaging in protest at micro levels outsi... Read More about Contemporary expressions of arts and culture as protest: consonance, dissonance, paradox and opportunities for community development?.

Rising beyond museological practice and use: a model for community and museum partnerships working towards modern curatorship in this day and age (2020)
Book Chapter
Mutibwa, D. H. (2020). Rising beyond museological practice and use: a model for community and museum partnerships working towards modern curatorship in this day and age. In S. Popple, A. Prescott, & D. H. Mutibwa (Eds.), Communities, archives and new collaborative practices (109—121). Policy Press

This chapter discusses effective ways to develop relationships between communities and museums around shared cultural agendas, practice and knowledge exchange. Through the lens of an eight-month pilot that emerged from the Pararchive project (http://... Read More about Rising beyond museological practice and use: a model for community and museum partnerships working towards modern curatorship in this day and age.