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Hyperinstrumentalism and cultural policy : means to an end or an end to meaning?

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Hadley, Steven and Gray, Clive (2017) Hyperinstrumentalism and cultural policy : means to an end or an end to meaning? Cultural Trends, 26 (2). pp. 95-106. doi:10.1080/09548963.2017.1323836 ISSN 0954-8963.

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Abstract

This paper investigates the implications for cultural policy of the logic of the instrumental view of culture taken to its conclusion. Policy developments that establish sets of justifications and rationales that have nothing to do with the cultural content of the policy concerned, but which arise from a deliberate realignment of policy frameworks, establish a form of hyperinstrumentalism. With hyperinstrumentalism the focus on outcomes and the ends of policy means that cultural policy is only as important as the ends to which it is directed. As such, hyperinstrumentalisation demonstrates the consequences for the sector of conditions where claims about the value of culture are irrelevant to political actors. The paper questions whether sense can be made of this shift as a coherent and strategic political choice, rather than as a simple assault on culture. The case of Northern Ireland’s Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure is used to illustrate this. The authors question whether hyperinstrumentalism undermines the justification for an autonomous domain of cultural policy.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General)
C Auxiliary Sciences of History > CB History of civilization
D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain
H Social Sciences > HM Sociology
Divisions: Faculty of Arts > Theatre, Performance and Cultural Policy Studies
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Cultural policy, Instrumentalism (Philosophy), Northern Ireland--Cultural policy
Journal or Publication Title: Cultural Trends
Publisher: Routledge
ISSN: 0954-8963
Official Date: 10 May 2017
Dates:
DateEvent
10 May 2017Available
1 March 2017Accepted
Volume: 26
Number: 2
Page Range: pp. 95-106
DOI: 10.1080/09548963.2017.1323836
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access
Date of first compliant deposit: 9 June 2017
Date of first compliant Open Access: 10 November 2018

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