Transformation and Liverpool European Capital of Culture 2008.

Platt, LC

doi:10.1079/9781780643526.0086

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“…Once a wealthy centre of trade in the 19th century, then globally recognized for its music culture in the 1960s, it became a city in serious economic and social decline by the late 1970s. The city has experienced investment in regeneration projects since the 1980s, such as the development of the International Garden Festival in 1984, the renewal of the Albert Docks as a tourist attraction, through to the European Capital of Culture in 2008 (a wide range of studies explore the changes the city has seen, for example, Belchem, 2006;Bianchini and Parkinson, 1993;Kokosalakis et al, 2006;Munck, 2003;Platt, 2015;Sykes et al, 2013). These highs and lows contribute not only to how outsiders understand Liverpool, but also how local people understand and perform their own identities (Boland, 2008(Boland, , 2010Platt, 2014).…”

Section: Placemaking In Liverpool and The Role Of Womenmentioning

confidence: 99%

Crafting place: Women’s everyday creativity in placemaking processes

Platt

2017

European Journal of Cultural Studies

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Amid a resurgence of domestic craft, this article contends that everyday creative practices of women are part of placemaking processes in the creative city. Specifically, the research focuses on Liverpool in the Northwest of England, the so-called (and self-proclaimed) 'centre of the creative universe'. This article utilized in-depth semistructured interviews with members of knitting groups and the city centre Women's Institute to explore how women use craft practice to create a sense of self and attachment to place. The idea of women gathering to craft is enduring, and is examined here to understand affective labour and the role that creativity plays in the urban experience of women. It is argued that the groups demonstrate a lack of engagement with the wider market and official placemaking processes, but instead demonstrate an element of self-valorization. The article challenges thinking around culture-led placemaking in cities like Liverpool, where discourses of creativity have been used as a driver for regeneration by shifting the emphasis onto seemingly banal settings on the edges of the so-called creative city. While urban placemakers have been more recently concerned with developing hubs of creative industries, the role of these groups that are not producing a profitable 'product' should not be underestimated or exploited.

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Section: Placemaking In Liverpool and The Role Of Womenmentioning

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Crafting place: Women’s everyday creativity in placemaking processes

Platt

2017

European Journal of Cultural Studies

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“…Indeed, Davis () found that the relationship between place and festival was highly relevant but codependent. For example, European Capital of Culture or UK City of Culture designations have had an impact of challenging perceptions of places (Boland, Murtagh, & Shirlow, ; Garcia, ; Platt, ). Additionally, even just bidding for the awards brings some positive outcomes (Wilson & O'Brien, ).…”

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Cultural festivals and the city

Finkel

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2020

Geography Compass

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Cities have always been hubs for celebration and festivity, bringing people together to escape temporarily from the mundane nature of everyday routines. Festivals have often been bridges between people and places, linking personal geography with collective experiences and therefore increasingly of interest to cultural geographers. However, festivals also have social, economic and political aspects that are constructed by societal influences of the time and place. This article presents some of the key debates ongoing in academic literature across disciplines to demonstrate the contested role that cultural festivals play in urban settings and suggests that urban geography is critical to developing these debates. It is simply no longer possible to say that festivity is a simple rupture in the mundanity of everyday life of urban citizens; rather, contemporary cultural festivals now often exhibit complex and uneasy tensions between the socio‐economic strategies of commercialized neoliberal cities and the cultural needs of diverse communities to gather and celebrate. By reviewing the development of festivals as part of the urban cultural economy utilising a geographic lens, this article sets out how cultural festivals are now more often employed by cities for marketing, tourism and other socio‐economic benefits. We demonstrate that cultural festivals and cities have an ongoing relationship, which is now mainly commercialized and politicized, and this has diverse impacts on communities, urban spaces and cultural identities.

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Transformation and Liverpool European Capital of Culture 2008.

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Crafting place: Women’s everyday creativity in placemaking processes

Crafting place: Women’s everyday creativity in placemaking processes

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