Cultural Policy is Local: Understanding Cultural Policy as Situated Practice

1. Reflecting on Place and the Local -- 2. Bridging the Trust Divide: Understanding the Role of 'Localism' and the 'Local' in Cultural Policy -- 3. Scale, the Local and Cultural Policy's Geographies -- 4. Scaling Heritage: Situated Policy in an Expanded Ontology -- 5. The Goals of American Cultural Plans -- 6. Community Management of Local Cultural Assets: Implications for Inequality and Publicness -- 7. Devolved Responsibility: English Regional Creative Industries Policy and Local Industrial Strategies -- 8. Reclaiming Place: Cultural Initiatives in Cretan Villages as Enablers of Citizen Involvement, Local Development and Repopulation -- 9. The Public Administration of 'Place': Labels and Meaning in Local Government Arts Development in the Irish Urban-Fringe -- 10. From Streets to Silos: Urban Art Forms in Local Rural Government and the Challenge of Rural Development -- 11. "Policies Aren't Pieces of Paper": Tussles and Tactics in Action-oriented and Agile Cultural Policy Research.

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Praise for Cultural Policy is Local -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Reflecting on Place and the Local -- Why Worry About 'the local' in Relation to Cultural Policy? -- Conceptualising the Local -- Book Structure -- Part I: Disciplining the Local -- Part II: Managing the Local -- Part III: Practising the Local -- Concluding Thoughts -- References -- Part I: Disciplining the Local -- Chapter 2: Bridging the Trust Divide: Understanding the Role of 'localism' and the 'local' in Cultural Policy -- The Policy Context-in Cultural Institutions We Trust -- Origins-Developments in the Field of Action -- What Is Localism? A Public Policy and Management Approach -- What Is Localism? A Human Geography Approach -- Common Ground-Public Value Governance and the Protective Power of Democracy -- The Potential Role of Cultural Institutions in Public Value Practice -- Barriers to Trust Building -- In Conclusion-Lessons for Cultural Policy -- References -- Chapter 3: Scale, the Local and Cultural Policy's Geographies -- Introduction: Cultural Policy's Geographies -- The Question of Scale -- Where Is Local? -- Scaling the Donut Pilot Project -- References -- Chapter 4: Scaling Heritage: Situated Policy in an Expanded Ontology -- Heritage: Scales of World, National and Local Heritage -- A Motte in England -- 'Local at all points' (Latour, 1993, p. 117) -- Legitimacy and Scale -- Haraway and 'situatedness' -- Multiple Clifford's Towers -- Situated Policy in an Expanded Ontology -- References -- Part II: Managing the Local -- Chapter 5: The Goals of American Cultural Plans -- Introduction -- American Cultural Planning: What Goals? -- Healthy Art Ecosystem -- Integration of the Arts in the City -- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Arts -- Conclusions -- References.