Cultural Policy is Local

Victoria Durrer is Ad Astra Research Fellow in Cultural Policy at University College Dublin.Abigail Gilmore is Senior Lecturer in Arts Management and Cultural Policy, University of Manchester.Leila Jancovich is Professor in Cultural Policy and Participation at the University of Leeds.David Stevenson is Professor of Cultural Policy and Arts Management at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh.

• 1. Reflecting on Place and the Local.- 2. Bridging the Trust Divide: Understanding the Role of ‘Localism’ and the ‘Local’ in Cultural Policy.- 3. Scale, the Local and Cultural Policy’s Geographies.- 4. Scaling Heritage: Situated Policy in an Expanded Ontology.- 5. The Goals of American Cultural Plans.- 6. Community Management of Local Cultural Assets: Implications for Inequality and Publicness.- 7. Devolved Responsibility: English Regional Creative Industries Policy and Local Industrial Strategies.- 8. Reclaiming Place: Cultural Initiatives in Cretan Villages as Enablers of Citizen Involvement, Local Development and Repopulation.- 9. The Public Administration of ‘Place’: Labels and Meaning in Local Government Arts Development in the Irish Urban-Fringe.- 10. From Streets to Silos: Urban Art Forms in Local Rural Government and the Challenge of Rural Development.- 11. “Policies Aren’t Pieces of Paper”:Tussles and Tactics in Action-oriented and Agile Cultural Policy Research.