All Outputs (8)

Radical Left Culture and Heritage, the Politics of Preservation and Memorialisation, and the Promise of the Metaverse (2024)
Journal Article

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

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.

Cultural Protest in Journalism, Documentary Films and the Arts: Between Protest and Professionalisation (2019)
Book

Cultural Protest in Journalism, Documentary Films and the Arts: Between Protest and Professionalisation entails a comprehensive account of the history and trajectory of contemporary journalistic, (documentary) film, and arts and cultural actors roote... Read More about Cultural Protest in Journalism, Documentary Films and the Arts: Between Protest and Professionalisation.

Strokes of serendipity: Community co-curation and engagement with digital heritage (2018)
Journal Article

This article explores the potential that community–led digital engagement with heritage holds for stimulating active citizenship through taking responsibility for shared cultural heritage and for fostering long-lasting relationships between local com... Read More about Strokes of serendipity: Community co-curation and engagement with digital heritage.

‘Sell[ing] what hasn’t got a name’: An exploration of the different understandings and definitions of ‘community engagement’ work in the performing arts (2017)
Journal Article

© The Author(s) 2017. Widely known to promote broader involvement in the processes which define the arts and culture, community engagement work in the performing arts – despite employing a set of commonly recognised norms – has tended to be conceptua... Read More about ‘Sell[ing] what hasn’t got a name’: An exploration of the different understandings and definitions of ‘community engagement’ work in the performing arts.

Surfing multiple tides: opportunities and challenges for contemporary British and German community filmmakers (2017)
Book Chapter

The entwinement of politics, arts, culture and commerce in staging social and political reality to enhance democratic communication (2016)
Journal Article

This article explores how four British and German theatre companies that originated in the countercultural era continue to survive in an increasingly austere economic climate. Although their survival strategies have been marked by remarkable resilien... Read More about The entwinement of politics, arts, culture and commerce in staging social and political reality to enhance democratic communication.

Memory, storytelling and the digital archive: Revitalizing community and regional identities in the virtual age (2016)
Journal Article

This article discusses how the interplay between the canon, the archive and performance informs the use of digital heritage resources in the construction, interpretation, representation, circulation and preservation of cultural and/or collective memo... Read More about Memory, storytelling and the digital archive: Revitalizing community and regional identities in the virtual age.