Culture and the public sphere / Jim McGuigan

By:

McGuigan, Jim

Publication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 1996Edition: 1rst edDescription: x, 220 pISBN:

041511263X

Summary: McGuigan’s book is one of the key texts that have played a crucial role in shaping the theoretical foundations of cultural policy studies. McGuigan takes issue with Bennett’s ‘governmentality approach’ in favour of the embrace of Habermas’ notion of public sphere as guiding concept for the formulation of a critique of what MacGuigan sees as a pervasive managerialist attitude and the infiltration of market reasoning in the public sector, and especially the public cultural sector. The book covers a range of themes that are relevant to this category, such as questions of cultural value, the creative economy, problems of national heritage and the links between culture, identity and citizenship. (Font: CRESC)

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Book	Centre d' Informació i Documentació del CERC Sala	General	S 00917	1	Available		1900166551

Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Cultural policy studies: Policing culture ; Becoming useful ; Remaining critical -- 2 Questions of value: Collapsing hierarchies ; Blurring boundaries ; Revaluing values -- 3. From state to market: Cultivating the masses ; Rolling back the state ; Marketising an and knowledge -- 4. Cultural industries: Commodifying culture ; Socialising the market ; Vertically disintegrating? ; 5. Urban regeneration: Localising the global ; Reclaiming the city ; Rioting places -- 6. National heritage: Declining Britain ; Backing in to the future ; Selling the past -- 7. Identity, 'race' and citizenship: Politicising difference ; Criss-crossing the Atlantic ; Civilising selves -- 8. Censorship and moral regulation: Constituting censorship ; Regulating morality ; Protecting the innocent -- 9. Culture and the public sphere: Talking power ; Communicating technologies ; Praxis and techne -- Notes -- References -- Index

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