[ecrea] cfp: Cultural production: Diversity, equality and exclusion

Call for papers

*Cultural production: Diversity, equality and exclusion *

*Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh *

*Tuesday 23^rd of August 2016 9.30 am to 5.00 pm *

*Keynote speakers to include Dr Dave O’Brien from Goldsmiths, University 
of London and Dr Mark Taylor from the University of Sheffield *

The dominant cultural policy narrative surrounding questions of ‘access’ 
and ‘inclusion’ has tended to focus on cultural consumption. Having 
recognised that audiences for certain types of cultural organisation are 
skewed towards the most affluent, educated and least diverse portion of 
the population, numerous researchers have attempted to evaluate and 
influence the manner in which this apparent inequality might be 
addressed. However, research has also pointed to inequalities within the 
field of cultural labour and yet far less appears to have been done with 
regards to these findings. As such, it continues to be the case that 
“/the voices, experiences and talents of the UK’s population as a whole 
are not being expressed, represented or developed within the Cultural 
and Creative Industries/” (Warwick Commission, 2015). This has social, 
economic and cultural consequences, not least because patterns of 
success with regards to who undertakes ‘professional’ cultural 
production are inevitably linked to patterns of cultural consumption and 
the associated systems of social structuring.

However, debates about inequitable access to the means of professional 
cultural production have begun to gain greater prominence beyond the 
plane of academia. Discussions about how some are excluded from careers 
in the creative and cultural industries are increasingly focused on 
questions of class, gender, ethnicity and disability. As O’Brien and 
Oakley (2015) have noted “/what has long been apparent to scholars in 
the field – that the cultural industries are less ethnically diverse, 
more male and skewed towards those of a higher socio-economic background 
than most other parts of the economy – seem[s] to have become, at least 
briefly, news.”/

In August, Edinburgh plays host to the Edinburgh Festivals, collectively 
one of the largest arts festivals in the world. The city is filled with 
creative practitioners and many of them are hoping that the Edinburgh 
festivals will offer a route into a sustainable professional career in 
the arts, and are willing take significant risks as they attempt to 
achieve their aspirations. The presence of such activity makes Edinburgh 
in August the ideal location at which to discuss questions of inequality 
in cultural production. Therefore, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh 
will host a one day colloquium to bring together academics currently 
conducting research in this area, and those who are attempting to 
address such inequalities in practice. As such, we are issuing a call 
for papers from those whose research addresses this theme.

Should you wish to present your work at this event, please submit 
abstracts of no more than *350 words, *accompanied with a short bio*, 
*to (DStevenson /at/ qmu.ac.uk) <mailto:(DStevenson /at/ qmu.ac.uk)> by *19^th May 
2016. *Please adhere to this date, as we intend to confirm successful 
proposals by the end of May so that all contributors can arrange travel 
and accommodation in good time (given the presence of the festivals, 
Edinburgh is a very busy, dynamic and vibrant place in August!)

*Please feel free to circulate this message to any colleagues or 
contacts you think may be interested.*

Thanks for your attention

Best

David Stevenson

Programme Leader

MA Arts, Festival and Cultural Management

School of Arts, Social Science and Management

Queen Margaret University

Edinburgh


Email: (DStevenson /at/ qmu.ac.uk) <mailto:(DStevenson /at/ qmu.ac.uk)>


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