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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
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09548963.2017.1323836
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 | ||||||
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| 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 |
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| 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 | ||||||
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| 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 |
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