Cultural Policy: Perspectives on the Island of Ireland
About this ebook
This book will be of interest to local and international policy and cultural policy scholars as well as practitioners in policy, arts, culture and creativity. The collection situates a range of industries, practices and sectors in shared, local, complex and international contexts and frames, revealing the multi-level operation of policy governances from the domestic to the global. The findings from the specific context of the island of Ireland thus have relevance for other nation-states and regions with similar intertwined jurisdictions and resulting tensions. More generally, this body of multi- and interdisciplinary academic research on and of Ireland deepens our understanding of locally situated, but globally connected, cross-border and transnational cultural policy studies.
About the author
Victoria Durrer is a Cultural Policy scholar based in the School of Art History and Cultural Policy at UCD and Co-Founder and Co-Director of Cultural Policy Observatory Ireland. Her work focuses on how the spatial and relational dynamics of administration and policy both shape and are challenged by artistic and creative practice as social, cultural and professional endeavours.
Ali FitzGibbon is a Senior Lecturer in Creative & Cultural Industries Management at Queen’s University Belfast. Her research focuses on ethics, leadership and decision-making in cultural production with an emphasis on live arts and freelancers. Prior to her academic work she was a professional producer, programmer and consultant for 25+ years.
Kerry McCall Magan as Director, British Council Ireland, leads on strategic cultural relations activity between Ireland and the UK. Prior to this, Kerry held senior roles in arts and higher education. Her research focuses on cultural policy with Cultural Participation: The perpetuation of middle-class privilege in Dublin, Ireland, released in 2022.
