From Chauvel to creatives: Celebrating the career of Distinguished Professor Stuart Cunningham

2021 ◽  
pp. 1329878X2110441
Author(s):  
Terry Flew ◽  
Amanda D Lotz
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Academic Leadership ◽  
Institution Building ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Policy Studies ◽  
Communications Media

This essay introduces the special issue of Media International Australia dedicated to the work of Stuart Cunningham. We note the scholarly contributions made by Stuart Cunningham to communications, media and cultural studies, including screen studies, creative industries and cultural policy studies. We also note his extensive contributions to institution building and academic leadership in engaging with industry and policy agencies from an applied humanities perspective.

scholarly journals Revisiting the Cultural Policy Moment: Queensland Cultural Policy from Goss to Bligh

2011 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 190-206
Author(s):  
Stuart Glover
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Policy Studies ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Cultural Sector

An account of cultural policy-making in Queensland since the election of the Goss Labor government in 1989 requires revisiting the rise and fall of what Stevenson (2000) has called the ‘cultural policy moment’ in Australia.This period, from the early 1990s to the early 2000s, was characterised by political and scholarly interest in the civic and symbolic utility of culture, and in the outcomes achieved through its management. The cultural policy moment was produced simultaneously within government, the cultural sector and the academy. Within government, it was characterised by a new and highly visible interest in managing culture and (through it) the citizenry (O'Regan 2002). Within the academy, the cultural policy project was raised by Tim Rowse in Arguing the Arts (1985) and developed by the Institute for Cultural Policy Studies at Griffith University through the work of Ian Hunter, Tony Bennett, Toby Miller, Colin Mercer, Jenny Craik, Tom O'Regan and Gay Hawkins in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Stuart Cunningham's Framing Culture (1992) focused existing debate within Australian cultural studies over the place of policy-based approaches within the discipline.

scholarly journals Looking into the “Anime Global Popular” and the “Manga Media”: Reflections on the Scholarship of a Transnational and Transmedia Industry

Arts ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuel Hernández-Pérez
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Visual Culture ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Cultural Consumption ◽  
Special Issue

This article introduces the special issue dedicated to global industries around anime, its theoretical commentary and its cross-cultural consumption. The concepts “anime” and “anime studies” are evaluated critically, involving current debates such as those presented in this volume. This discussion will employ the concepts of “manga media” as well as the “popular global”, giving an account of the transmedia and transcultural character of these creative industries. The conclusion critiques the irregular presence of Cultural Studies in the study of Japanese visual culture and advocates for constructing an updated dialogue with this tradition in order to readdress the study of these media as a form of global popular culture.

scholarly journals Convergence, Creative Industries and Civil Society: Towards a New Agenda for Cultural Policy and Cultural Studies

2009 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 179-204
Author(s):  
Colin Mercer
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Cultural Citizenship ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
New Research ◽  
Strategic Object ◽  
The 19Th Century

In this article I start with a personal experience “cameo” from 1996 in Australia and extrapolate from that some issues that remain relevant in the sometimes troubled relationship between cultural studies and cultural policy. These are encapsulated in the three “cs” of convergence, creative industries and civil society which provide a new context for both new research and new policy settings. The argument is developed and situated in historical terms by examining the “cultural technologies”, especially the newspaper, and subsequently print media in the 19th century, electronic media in the 20th century and digital media in the 21st century which provide the content, the technologies and the rituals for “imagining” our sense of place and belonging. This is then linked to ways of understanding culture and cultural technologies in the context of governmentality and the emergence of culture as a strategic object of policy with the aim of citizen- and population formation and management. This argument is then linked to four contemporary “testbeds” – cultural mapping and planning, cultural statistics and indicators, cultural citizenship and identity, and research of and for cultural policy – and priorities for cultural policy where cultural studies work has been extremely enabling and productive. The article concludes with an argument, derived from the early 20th century work of Patrick Geddes of the necessity of linking, researching, understanding and operationalising the three key elements and disciplines of Folk (anthropology), Work (economics), and Place (geography) in order to properly situate cultural policy, mapping and planning and their relationship to cultural studies and other disciplines.

scholarly journals Inside the whale (and how to get out of there): Moving on from two decades of creative industries research

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 637-654 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Banks ◽  
Justin O’Connor
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Political Consequences ◽  
Policy Paradigm ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Retrospective View ◽  
20Th Anniversary ◽  
Cultural Economies ◽  
Post Industrial

In keeping with the spirit of this Special Issue, this article takes a retrospective view – analysing two decades of research on local, city-based cultural economies in the dominant context of the ‘creative industries’ policy paradigm. We begin by exploring our own position in the field – as early arbiters for the cultural industries – and the political and economic context which informed our own (shared) efforts to further progressive claims for culture, amidst the transforming post-industrial city of the 1990s. The subsequent rise of a creative industries discourse – in the United Kingdom and beyond – had a transformative effect on those progressive claims, not least in bringing to the fore a more economistic, capital-driven model of urban renewal which served to undermine many of the promises that had been invested in popular urban culture under social democracy. How this shift was played out in the academic literature – and its political consequences – is the theme of the remainder of the article. This article forms part of the Special Issue ‘On the Move’, which marks the 20th anniversary of the European Journal of Cultural Studies. It also heads up a special online dossier on ‘Creative Industries in the European Journal of Cultural Studies’.

scholarly journals Occupations and Professionalism in Art and Culture

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lennart G. Svensson
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Academic Field ◽  
Emotional Labour ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Arts And Culture ◽  
Art And Culture

The article introduces the topic of this special issue on artists and professionalism from the perspective of the sociology of the arts and culture, in order to demonstrate how the contributions significantly develop studies of professions in general. Some theoretical concepts are defined and discussed: culture, arts, occupations, professions, status, field, symbolic and social capital, emotional labour, and reversed economy. An illustration is used to demonstrate pricing in arts and what may explain it. There is a focus on the field of art with a brief comparison to the academic field. In this issue we find studies on artists, authors, and theatre actors, which provide significant contributions to these themes in theories and studies of professions.Keywords: creative industries, creative occupations, professions, status, field, symbolic and social capital 

Fundamental Cultural studies on the role of humanity in the Ecosystem genesis

2021 ◽  
pp. 500-513
Author(s):  
G.M. Galutsky
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Ecosystem Development ◽  
Present Stage

The paper formulates the problem of understanding the essence of the Ecosystem and the role that is assigned to humanity as a unique cultural taxon at a certain stage of Ecosystem development. Within the framework of the fundamental culturological approach, it is possible to find an answer to the question “why does a person live?”, which is crucial for applied culturology and the formalization of cultural policy at the present stage of civilization.

Reframing culture: Stuart Cunningham's legacies

2021 ◽  
pp. 1329878X2110438
Author(s):  
Julian Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Research Policy ◽  
Film History ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Industry Practice ◽  
Research Initiatives

This essay offers an appreciation of Stuart Cunningham's substantial and diverse contributions to ‘reframing culture’ in Australian research, policy and industry practice, from his early reformulations of Australian film history to his recent work on digital media disruption. The essay discusses the range of Cunningham's institutional and intellectual legacies, suggesting that his advocacy for cultural policy and the creative industries together with his leadership of major collaborative research initiatives in the humanities and social sciences have been especially important for media and cultural studies in Australia. Further, his approach to the project of ‘reframing culture’ is likely to remain a critical task.

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