Symposium: The Kilburn Manifesto: After Neoliberalism?

Peck, Jamie; Massey, Doreen; Gibson, Katherine; Lawson, Victoria

doi:10.1068/akilburn

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“…I suggest that for Kerslake, the increased pride (however small) was evidence enough to legitimise Hull2017's costs, programme and broader “transformative” agenda. Such an approach demonstrates “the disciplining and constraining effects of interurban competition [that] induce cities to behave entrepreneurially” (Peck, 2014, p. 398) and of neoliberalism's infiltration of all aspects of our lives (Harvey, 2006; Hall, 2011; Massey, 2014), including the emotional.…”

Section: Pride and The Neoliberal City Scriptmentioning

confidence: 99%

The cultural politics of civic pride through Hull UK City of Culture 2017

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2023

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PurposeThis 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/approachA multidimensional, mixed methods approach is taken, incorporating the critical analysis of Hull2017 promotional materials and events and original interviews with a range of stakeholders.FindingsThe 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/valueThrough 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.

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Section: Pride and The Neoliberal City Scriptmentioning

confidence: 99%

The cultural politics of civic pride through Hull UK City of Culture 2017

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2023

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M assey, D oreen

Skelton¹

2019

The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies

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Professor Doreen Massey (1944–2016) was a powerful, positive, critical academic‐activist who challenged and changed many aspects of geography, quite specifically through her work in regional and urban studies. She championed the significance and importance of space and place and decried the negative impacts of capitalism in everyday lives. Early in her career she channeled these ideas in the seminal text Spatial Divisions of Labour and latterly through a more theoretical lens in For Space . Massey's work and ideas were influential in a genuinely international context as she shared ideas with scholars, politicians, and people alike in different countries. As a stalwart actor at the Open University, a founding editor of Soundings , a journal of critical political and cultural debates, and a coauthor of the Kilburn Manifesto, Doreen Massey determinedly made academic theory and conceptualization meaningful and accessible beyond academia itself.

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