The art of survival: community-based arts organisations in times of austerity

Rimmer, Mark

doi:10.1093/cdj/bsy036

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“…Certainly, the turn towards spoke-and-hub organisational modality evidenced the intrinsic organisational reflexivity [62], though the mid-term consequences of this change upon their reflexivity of governance remained a contested issue amongst participants. Austerity has been found to impact negatively upon discursive governance spaces [6,63,64], though this research discerned a tension where austerity was instead precipitating change towards new organisational modalities that instead favoured commercial reflexivity [51] at the costs of discursive capacities and values [63]. This was a tension between austerity-induced marketisation of collaborative environmental governance structures, and the extant governance and management values of collaborative decision making and discursiveness (see [21]).…”

Section: Collaborative Governancementioning

confidence: 84%

The Contours of State Retreat from Collaborative Environmental Governance under Austerity

2020

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Although the effects of public austerity have been the subject of a significant literature in recent years, the changing role of the state as a partner in collaborative environmental governance under austerity has received less attention. By employing theories of collaborative governance and state retreat, this paper used a qualitative research design comprised of thirty-two semi-structured interviews within the case study UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in the United Kingdom to address this lacuna. Participants perceived that the austerity period has precipitated negative changes to their extant state-orientated funding regime, which had compelled changes to their organisational structure. Austerity damaged their relationships with the state and perceptions of state legitimacy whilst simultaneously strengthening and straining the relationships between intra-partnership non-state governance actors. This case offers a critical contemporary reflection on normative collaborative environmental governance theory under austerity programmes. These open up questions about the role of the state in wider sustainability transitions.

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Section: Collaborative Governancementioning

confidence: 84%

The Contours of State Retreat from Collaborative Environmental Governance under Austerity

2020

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“…The last century has also seen an exponential rise in an international “star” culture (Marshall, 2013 ; Cook, 2018 ), with considerable economic value being derived from it. This has left many musicians who work to social and cultural objectives having lesser status (Rimmer, 2018 ). Tensions between the priorities of global star performance and locally-oriented practises are evident.…”

Section: Shifting Ground For Higher Music Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Musicians as “Makers in Society”: A Conceptual Foundation for Contemporary Professional Higher Music Education

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This paper considers the purpose, values and principles underpinning higher music education (HME) as one of the performing arts in a context of turbulent global change. Recognising complex challenges and opportunities in this field, HME is addressed from dual perspectives: educating the next generations of professional musicians, and higher music institutions’ (HMEIs) engagement in society. The paper has a particular focus on the sector within HME that is dedicated to intensive practical craft training for performers, composers, programmers, producers, managers, and teachers. We argue that there is an urgent need for fresh orientating frameworks through which to navigate HME’s development. We examine concepts such as artistic citizenship, social responsibility and civic mission increasingly perceived to be relevant to the sector, and we explore their connexions to concepts of artistic excellence, imagination and creativity, and musical heritage. We identify apparent dichotomies of value within contemporary HME, including between intrinsic and instrumental purpose in the arts, cultural heritage, and new work, artistic imagination and entrepreneurship, and we argue that creative tensions between what have hitherto easily been perceived as opposing concepts or competing priorities need to be embraced. To support our argument we draw on the particular ethnomusicological concept of “musicking,” and we look toward a partnering of artistic and social values in order to enable HME to respond dynamically to societal need, and to continue to engage with the depth and integrity of established musical traditions and their craft. Based on this discussion we propose a conceptual foundation: the “musician as a maker in society,” in which developing vision as a musician in society, underpinned on the one hand by immersion in musical artistry and on the other hand sustained practical experience of connecting and engaging with communities, offers invaluable preparation for and transition into professional life. We propose that this idea, connecting societal and artistic vision and practise, is equally essential for HMEIs as it is for musicians, and sits at the heart of the roles they evolve within their local communities and wider society.

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“…Despite the success of this programme, and the relatively low cost of such interventions, that it was not repeated more widely reflects the ongoing impacts of fiscal constraint in the United Kingdom and the inability of isolated projects to transcend broader structural issues. Austerity and the ongoing impacts of cuts to police budgets have left little space for such projects ensuring that new ways of thinking and behaving can be lost (Rimmer, 2018). One solution could be to consider integrating such initiatives into existing educational platforms for police and young people including police training and school programmes.…”

Section: Summary and Key Learningmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘We Just Want to be Treated with Respect!’: Using Restorative Approaches and the Dramatic Arts to Build Positive Relationships Between the Police and Young People

Payne¹,

Hobson²,

Lynch³

2020

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This article examines the Gloucestershire Youth Forums, an arts-based restorative intervention deployed in response to perceived issues with procedural justice, legitimacy and community relations between police and young people in the area. Through an ethnographic study of the forum processes and procedures, we show how such community-based arts programmes can be a powerful and effective tool for challenging entrenched views and have the potential to improve future encounters between police and young people. We also argue that the relevance and effectiveness of arts-based interventions can be increased by combining with restorative justice principles.

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The art of survival: community-based arts organisations in times of austerity

Cited by 13 publications

References 8 publications

The Contours of State Retreat from Collaborative Environmental Governance under Austerity

The Contours of State Retreat from Collaborative Environmental Governance under Austerity

Musicians as “Makers in Society”: A Conceptual Foundation for Contemporary Professional Higher Music Education

‘We Just Want to be Treated with Respect!’: Using Restorative Approaches and the Dramatic Arts to Build Positive Relationships Between the Police and Young People

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