CREATIVE ECONOMIES, CREATIVE COMMUNITIES
Creative Economies, Creative Communities
Rethinking Place, Policy and Practice
Edited by
SASKIA WARREN
University of Manchester, UK
and
PHIL JONES
University of Birmingham, UK
First published 2015 by Ashgate Publishing
Published 2016 by Routledge
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Creative economies, creative communities : rethinking place, policy and practice / [edited] by Saskia Warren and Phil Jones.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4724-5137-8 (hardback) -- ISBN 978-1-3155-7468-4 (ebook) -- ISBN 978-1-3171-5828-8 (epub) 1. Cultural industries--Social aspects. 2. Cultural geography. 3. Cultural policy. 4. Community development. I. Warren, Saskia. II. Jones, Phil (Phil Ian)
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Contents
Saskia Warren and Phil Jones
Shari Daya
Tim G. Acott and Julie Urquhart
Dave OBrien
Antonia Layard and Jane Milling
Ginnie Wollaston and Roxanna Collins
Liz Roberts and Leanne Townsend
Monika Murzyn-Kupisz and Jarosaw Dziaek
Paul Long and Steve Harding
Phil Jones and Saskia Warren
List of Figures
List of Tables
Notes on Contributors
Tim Acott is a Lecturer in Environmental Geography at the University of Greenwich. He graduated with a BSc Hons in Environmental Science from the University of Plymouth in 1989. He subsequently completed a PhD at the University of Stirling and started to lecture at the University of Greenwich in 1993. Tim was a lead investigator on a European Interreg 4a funded collaborative project, CHARM III (Channel Integrated Approach for Marine Resource Management), a 4.6 million ERDF co-financed Interrg IVA 2 Seas project called Geography of Inshore Fishing and Sustainability (GIFS) and the Interreg IVA 2 Seas TourFish (Tourism for Inshore Fishing, Food and Sustainability). Tim has worked on social science research projects spanning marine fishing, environmental conservation, sustainable tourism, ecotourism and environmental ethics.
Roxanna Collins works within Birmingham City Councils Culture and Visitor Economy Service. Over the last nine years, she has enjoyed working with residents and partners to support the development of arts and culture through various community programmes and in a variety of Council roles, from policy to regeneration. Roxanna completed an MA in Community and Participatory Arts at Staffordshire University (2012), and a BA in Fine Art and History of Art and Architecture at the University of Reading (2005), where she developed an interest in town planning, Brutalist and post-war architecture, and art in the public realm. Roxanna is also a committee member of the West Midlands Twentieth Century Society, and community arts organisation, Stirchley Happenings, and advisor for Still Walking Festival.
Shari Daya is a Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Cape Town. Her doctoral research explored discursive constructions of the new Indian woman, interrogating the gendered and ethnocentric nature of dominant narratives of modernity. After completing her PhD in 2007, she worked on a range of research projects, on topics including sustainable consumption, lay ethics and nanotechnologies, and the relationship between adolescent wellbeing and neighbourhoods. Her current research explores the values underlying production and consumption practices in South Africa, with a particular focus on alternative economies, such as those characterised by informality, creativity or morality.
Jarosaw Dziaek is a Lecturer and Researcher in Human Geography at the Department of Regional Development, Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. He holds an MA in Sociology and a PhD in Geography. His research focuses on the problems of local and regional development, especially its social dimensions, social capital and regional identity, as well as development of knowledge economy, innovation, cooperation between science, institutions and firms. He is an author of over 30 publications including a monograph Social Capital as a Factor of Economic Development at the Regional and Local Level in Poland (in Polish, 2011).
Steve Harding heads the Regional Team in Birmingham City University with a focus on cross innovation across growth sectors informed by BCUs leadership in the Interreg IVC project. He holds a PhD from the University of Nottingham (2002). He is a Knowledge Integrator with the University of Lancaster in the Design for Europe platform to support design-led innovation across the EU. Steve led the writing team for the regions European Structural and Investment Fund (ESIF) submission for 201420.
He is a member of the NICE network led by the European Centre for the Creative Economy in Essen promoting creative spillovers.
Phil Jones is a Senior Lecturer in Cultural Geography at the University of Birmingham and Principal Investigator on a 1.5m AHRC-funded project Cultural Intermediation and the Creative Urban Economy (201216). He has published widely on cities, including work on sustainability and regeneration as well as arts and creative methods. Along with James Evans, Phil is co-author of the book, Urban Regeneration in the UK (second edition 2013).
Antonia Layard is a Professor at Bristol Law School, University of Bristol. Antonias research is in law and geography where she explores how law, legality and maps construct space, place and the local. She has particular interests in the legal provisions and practices involved in large-scale regeneration and infrastructure projects, and teaches courses on property, planning and environmental law. Law, Place and Maps: Balancing Protection and Exclusion will be published by Glasshouse Press, Routledge. Until September 2014, she was an ESRC Fellow researching Localism, Law and Governance.
