Journal•ISSN: 1028-6632
International Journal of Cultural Policy
Routledge
About: International Journal of Cultural Policy is an academic journal published by Routledge. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Cultural policy & The arts. It has an ISSN identifier of 1028-6632. Over the lifetime, 1106 publications have been published receiving 22466 citations. The journal is also known as: The international journal of cultural policy.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the use of the term "creative industries" can only be understood in the context of information society policy and that the cultural policy implications in the United Kingdom of a shift in terminology from cultural to creative industries can be analyzed.
Abstract: This article analyses the cultural policy implications in the United Kingdom of a shift in terminology from cultural to creative industries. It argues that the use of the term “creative industries” can only be understood in the context of information society policy. It draws its political and ideological power from the prestige and economic importance attached to concepts of innovation, information, information workers and the impact of information and communication technologies drawn from information society theory. This sustains the unjustified claim of the cultural sector as a key economic growth sector within the global economy and creates a coalition of disparate interests around the extension of intellectual property rights. In the final analysis, it legitimates a return to an artist‐centred, supply side defence of state cultural subsidies that is in contradiction to the other major aim of cultural policy – wider access.
643 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the cultural industries became such an important idea in cultural policy, when those industries had been largely invisible in traditional (arts and heritage-based) policy for many decades.
Abstract: This article analyses and contextualises a variety of relationships between the cultural industries and cultural policy. A principal aim is to examine policies explicitly formulated as cultural (or creative) industries policies. What lies behind such policies? How do they relate to other kinds of cultural policy, including those more oriented towards media, communications, arts and heritage? The first section asks how the cultural industries became such an important idea in cultural policy, when those industries had been largely invisible in traditional (arts‐ and heritage‐based) policy for many decades. What changed and what drove the major changes? In the second section, we look at a number of problems and conceptual tensions arising from the new importance of the cultural industries in contemporary public policy, including problems concerning definition and scope, and the accurate mapping of the sector, but also tensions surrounding the insertion of commercial and industrial culture into cultural polic...
441 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, a critique of instrumental cultural policies and social impact studies in the UK is presented, where the authors argue that art as a means of alleviating social exclusion does not really work.
Abstract: (2002). Art as a means of alleviating social exclusion: Does it really work? A critique of instrumental cultural policies and social impact studies in the UK. International Journal of Cultural Policy: Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 91-106.
382 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue against this turn in public policy and for a cultural policy that views its object as all forms of cultural production, both industrial and artisan, and question the longer term motives and consequences for cultural policy of the creative industries agenda.
Abstract: The article critiques official notions of creative industries with reference to definitions of both culture and creativity. The knowledge economy-based concept of creative industries, it is maintained, has no specific cultural content and ignores the distinctive attributes of both cultural creativity and cultural products. As such it overrides important public good arguments for state support of culture, subsuming the cultural sector and cultural objectives within an economic agenda to which it is illsuited. We argue against this turn in public policy and for a cultural policy that views its object as all forms of cultural production, both industrial and artisan. Finally we question the longer term motives and consequences for cultural policy of the creative industries agenda.
319 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors re-imagined the space of the cultural industries and their governance, and developed an argument that seeks to open up a space where the hybrid nature of cultural production can be addressed by policy.
Abstract: This article re‐imagines the space of the cultural industries and their governance. It is divided into three parts. In the first, questions of definition are reviewed. In the second part, cultural policies (and by default cultural industries policies) are examined in order to disclose the key concepts of culture that they are based upon. The final section, on governance, develops an argument that seeks to open up a space where the hybrid nature of cultural production can be addressed by policy.
285 citations