Vickery, Jonathan (2017) Poverty as aesthetic deprivation : empirical and theoretical issues. Poverty Network. (Unpublished)

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Abstract

This paper was delivered at an external Network meeting of scholars called the Poverty Network. Its subject focus emerged from a brief exchange with the Network organisers in the context of the Warwick Global Research Priority in International Development (an internal research network). Its central research question animates a discussion that is both theoretical and practical: "Can aesthetics play any meaningful role in International Development – research or strategy?"

My contention in this paper is that the arts and culture are rarely cast in their own terms – in terms of their own productive potential, as distinctive or independent forms of cultural value or value - creation (involving experience, thought, interpretation, public reasoning and critical dissent from social norms, and a developing civil society around the kinds of cultural production that facilitate all these elements ). And so theories of development (particularly in relation to poverty) too often position the arts and culture as marginal priorities – desirable but not essential in relation to the alleviation of poverty and deprivation. My interest here, is, of course, in conceptualising the arts and culture as internal to development policies on poverty and deprivation.

Item Type:	Scholarly Text
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BH Aesthetics H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare
Divisions:	Faculty of Arts > Theatre, Performance and Cultural Policy Studies > Centre for Cultural Policy Studies
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Poverty, Economic development, Cultural industries, Aesthetics
Publisher:	Poverty Network
Official Date:	January 2017
Dates:	Date Event January 2017 Accepted
Number of Pages:	14
Status:	Not Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Unpublished
Conference Paper Type:	Lecture
Title of Event:	Poverty Research Network
Type of Event:	Other
Location of Event:	Coventry
Date(s) of Event:	30 Nov 2016

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