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Crisis what s a crisis Some methodological reflections on evaluating the impact of Covid-19 on Australian arts and culture7.15 MB
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Journal article
Crisis, what's a crisis? Some methodological reflections on evaluating the impact of Covid-19 on Australian arts and culture
Journal for Cultural Research, Vol.27(2), pp.189-209
2023
Appears in COVID-19 Research
Abstract
This essay discusses a 2021 interview-based pilot project on the impact of COVID-19 on a cross-section of Southeast Queensland artists and cultural organisations. Though it engages with empirical data, it addresses conceptual concerns. Our interviews aimed at capturing the emotional as well as the objective costs of the pandemic on cultural practitioners. The essay considers the phrase 'crisis of value' and asks whether it should be used to describe the state of the Australian cultural sector during this time. Following the arguments of Will Davies in respect of the intellectual resources needed to justify a 'neoliberal realist' worldview, it explores the impact of COVID-19 on the cultural sector by reflecting on its evaluative methods. Digital analysis of the themes, sentiments, and keywords of 14 interview transcripts are presented and ten inferences drawn about practitioners' underlying attitudes. Under what circumstances do performances of neoliberal calculations of benefit cease to be convincing and/or delivered in a convincing way? What factors constitute 'a crisis of value' in arts and culture? The conclusion argues that the methodic dimension of neoliberal evaluation is only one component of its social acceptability, and therefore only one factor in the perception of a state of crisis.
Details
- Title
- Crisis, what's a crisis? Some methodological reflections on evaluating the impact of Covid-19 on Australian arts and culture
- Authors
- Julian Meyrick - Griffith UniversityBen Green (Corresponding Author) - Griffith UniversityDiana Tolmie - Griffith UniversityJane Frank - Griffith UniversityGuy Cooper
- Publication details
- Journal for Cultural Research, Vol.27(2), pp.189-209
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Date published
- 2023
- DOI
- 10.1080/14797585.2023.2217368
- ISSN
- 1740-1666; 1479-7585
- Copyright note
- © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.
- Organisation Unit
- School of Business and Creative Industries
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991052798702621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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