Contents

pp iii-iv

List of figures, tables and boxes

pp v-vi

Notes on contributors

pp vii-xii

Acknowledgements

pp xiii-xiv

Series editors’ foreword

pp xv-xvi

Introduction: Bringing communities and culture together

pp 1-24

Part One - Changing contexts

pp 25-26

one - The creative economy, the creative class and cultural intermediation

pp 27-42

two - Mapping cultural intermediaries

pp 43-62

three - Towards cultural ecologies: why urban cultural policy must embrace multiple cultural agendas

pp 63-76

four - State-sponsored amateurism: cultural intermediation, participation and non-professional production

pp 77-94

Part Two - Practices of cultural intermediation

pp 95-96

five - ‘An area lacking cultural activity’: researching cultural lives in urban space

pp 97-114

six - Intervention: Some cities

pp 115-118

seven - Governing the creative city: the practice, value and effectiveness of cultural intermediation

pp 119-132

eight - Participatory budgeting for culture: handing power to communities?

pp 133-146

nine - Intervention: Balsall Heath legends

pp 147-150

ten - Screening films for social change: origins, aims and evolution of the Bristol Radical Film Festival

pp 151-164

Part Three - Evaluation, impact and methodology

pp 165-166

eleven - Engineering cohesion: a reflection on academic practice in a community-based setting

pp 167-178

twelve - Intervention: Force deep

pp 179-182

thirteen - Strategies for overcoming research obstacles: developing the ‘Ordsall method’ as a process for ethnographically informed impact in communities

pp 183-198

fourteen - Intervention: street art, faith and cultural engagement

pp 199-206

fifteen - From the inside: reflections on cultural intermediation

pp 207-220

Conclusion: where next for cultural intermediation?

pp 221-230

Index

pp 231-236