Cultural Intermediaries Connecting Communities

Phil Jones is a Senior Lecturer in Cultural Geography, University of Birmingham. Beth Perry is a Professional Fellow at the Urban Institute in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Sheffield. Paul Long is a Professor of Media and Cultural History at the School of Media, Birmingham City University.

Chapter 1. Introduction: Bringing communities and culture together; Phil Jones, Beth Perry, Paul Long.

Section One: Changing Contexts

Chapter 2. The Creative Economy, The Creative Class, and Cultural Intermediation; Orian Brook, Dave O’Brien, and Mark Taylor.
Chapter 3. Mapping Cultural Intermediaries; Lisa De Propris.
Chapter 4. Towards cultural ecologies: why urban cultural policy must embrace multiple cultural agendas; Beth Perry and Jessica Symons.
Chapter 5. State-Sponsored Amateurism: Cultural Intermediation, Participation and Non-Professional Production; Paul Long.

Section Two: Practices of Cultural Intermediation

Chapter 6. `An area lacking cultural activity’: Researching Cultural Lives in Urban Space; Paul Long and Saskia Warren.
Chapter 7. Case Study: SOME CITIES; Dan Burwood.
Chapter 8. Governing the creative city: the practice, value and effectiveness of cultural intermediation; Beth Perry
Chapter 9. Participatory budgeting for culture: handing power to communities? Phil Jones
Chapter 10. Saadia Kiyani. Case study: Balsall Heath Legends; Saadia Kiyani.
Chapter 11. Screening films for social change: origins, aims and evolution of the Bristol Radical Film Festival; Laura Ager.

Section Three: Evaluation, Impact and Methodology

Chapter 12. Engineering cohesion: a reflection on academic practice in a community-based setting; Arshad Isakjee.
Chapter 13. Case study: Force Deep; Chris Jam
Chapter 14. Strategies for overcoming research obstacles: developing the Ordsall Method as a process for ethnographically-informed impact in communities; Jessica Symons
Chapter 15. Street Art, Faith and Cultural Engagement, Mohammed Ali.
Chapter 16. From the inside: reflections on cultural intermediation; Yvette Vaughan Jones.

Conclusion

Chapter 17. Conclusion. Where next for cultural intermediation? Phil Jones, Paul Long and Beth Perry.