Files and links (1)
Published, Version of Record (VoR)CC BY-NC-ND V4.0, Open
Journal article
Reflexivity and the perpetuation of inequality in the cultural sector: half awake in a fake empire?
Journal for cultural research, v ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp 1-22
22 Aug 2022
Featured in Collection : UN Sustainable Development Goals @ Drexel
Abstract
Discourses of social justice offer the sense of a progressive and developing narrative within the arts sector. Cultural democracy, cultural equity and cultural diversity address broad policy issues related to production, consumption and representation. This article questions whether these approaches have failed in their challenge to the long-established power dynamics of the cultural sector. We take this position of failure as a starting point for a self-reflexive account of the lack of progressive change in the sector. We argue that reflexivity is needed to avoid the elision of the progressive impulse through the inauthentic and rhetorical promotion of 'fakequity'. As scholars from divergent yet mutually Anglo-centric traditions, our aim is to better understand how a self-reflexive approach might counter the (non)performative behaviour of the cultural sector. Without such an approach, initiatives supposedly designed to be culturally democratic risk enforcing structures of exclusion and facilitating a 'non-performative woke democratisation of culture'.
Metrics
Details
- Title
- Reflexivity and the perpetuation of inequality in the cultural sector: half awake in a fake empire?
- Creators
- Steven Hadley - National University of Ireland, GalwayBrea Heidelberg - Drexel UniversityEleonora Belfiore - University of Aberdeen
- Publication Details
- Journal for cultural research, v ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp 1-22
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Arts and Entertainment Enterprise
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000843785300001
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85136486078
- Other Identifier
- 991019173872104721
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
This publication has contributed to the advancement of the following goals:
InCites Highlights
Data related to this publication, from InCites Benchmarking & Analytics tool:
- Collaboration types
- Domestic collaboration
- International collaboration
- Web of Science research areas
- Cultural Studies