Papers by Claire Burnill-Maier
Routledge eBooks, Feb 17, 2015
American Behavioral Scientist
Against a backdrop of growing interest in localized cultural policy, this article explores the ex... more Against a backdrop of growing interest in localized cultural policy, this article explores the example of Oldham, an “overshadowed” town (Pike et al., 2016) situated on the edge of the Northern English city of Manchester (United Kingdom). While urban planning discourse has acknowledged the impact of large cities on neighboring satellite areas, finding that regeneration projects can result in a weak sense of place for [such] secondary towns (Turok, 2009), few have considered the extent to which arts organizations in secondary towns are able to sustain their work and create their own narratives. Drawing from the thought of Pierre Bourdieu and from theories of institutional logics, I adopt a relational approach to exploring the ways in which organizations within the local cultural ecology understand their operating environment. Although cultural policy endeavors to use local arts infrastructure to build local capacity, this case study reveals a situation in which those organizations in...
There are overwhelming numbers of individuals who have contributed to the completion of this thes... more There are overwhelming numbers of individuals who have contributed to the completion of this thesis, without whom, both my sanity and this inquiry would have unravelled. Whilst I shall endeavour to mention as many as possible, I will surely forget someone-and I hope they will forgive me.
The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Tourism, 2008
Springer eBooks, Dec 31, 2022
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Papers by Claire Burnill-Maier