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'Impact', 'value' and 'bad economics' : making sense of the problem of value in the arts and humanities

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Belfiore, Eleonora (2015) 'Impact', 'value' and 'bad economics' : making sense of the problem of value in the arts and humanities. Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, Volume 14 (Number 1). pp. 95-110. doi:10.1177/1474022214531503 ISSN 1474-0222.

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Abstract

Questions around the value of the arts and humanities to the contemporary world, the benefits they are expected to bring to the society that supports them through funding have assumed an increased centrality within a number of disciplines, not limited to humanities scholarship. Especially problematic, yet crucial, is the issue of the measurement of such public value, in the context to an ostensible commitment to evidence-based policy making over the past twenty years. This article takes as a starting point a discussion of the ‘cultural value debate’ as it has developed within British cultural policy: here, the discussion of ‘value’ has been inextricably linked to the challenge of ‘making the case’ for the arts and for public cultural funding. The paper discusses the problems with the persisting predominance of economics in shaping current approaches to framing articulations of ‘value’ in the policy-making context for both the arts sector and higher education. It concludes with a plea for a collaborative effort to resist the economic doxa, to reclaim and reinvent the impact agenda as a route towards the establishment of a new public humanities.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: C Auxiliary Sciences of History > CB History of civilization
N Fine Arts > NX Arts in general
Divisions: Faculty of Arts > Theatre, Performance and Cultural Policy Studies > Centre for Cultural Policy Studies
Faculty of Arts > Theatre, Performance and Cultural Policy Studies
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Great Britain -- Cultural policy, Government aid to the arts -- Great Britain
Journal or Publication Title: Arts and Humanities in Higher Education
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd.
ISSN: 1474-0222
Official Date: February 2015
Dates:
DateEvent
February 2015Published
22 April 2014Available
Volume: Volume 14
Number: Number 1
Page Range: pp. 95-110
DOI: 10.1177/1474022214531503
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access
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Article published in a special edition of the journal Arts and Humanities in Higher Education

Date of first compliant deposit: 27 December 2015
Date of first compliant Open Access: 27 December 2015

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