"Impact", "Value' and "Bad Economics": Making Sense of the Problem of Value in the Arts and Humanities

Autor/in	Belfiore, Eleonora
Titel	"Impact", "Value' and "Bad Economics": Making Sense of the Problem of Value in the Arts and Humanities
Quelle	In: Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 14 (2015) 1, S.95-110 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1474-0222
DOI	10.1177/1474022214531503
Schlagwörter	Art; Humanities; Policy; Financial Support; Economics; Value Judgment; Economic Impact; Culture; Rhetoric; Foreign Countries; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Arts; Kunst; Geisteswissenschaften; Humanwissenschaften; Politik; Finanzielle Förderung; Volkswirtschaftslehre; Werturteil; Ökonomische Determinanten; Kultur; Rhetorik; Ausland; Großbritannien
Abstract	Questions around the value of the arts and humanities to the contemporary world and the benefits they are expected to bring to the society that supports them through funding have assumed an increased centrality within a number of disciplines, not limited to humanities scholarship. Especially problematic, yet crucial, is the issue of the measurement of such public value. This article takes as a starting point a discussion of the "cultural value debate" as it has developed within British cultural policy: here, the discussion of "value" has been inextricably linked to the challenge of "making the case" for the arts and for public cultural funding. The paper discusses the problems with the persisting predominance of economics in shaping current approaches to framing articulations of "value" in the policy-making context. It concludes with a plea for a collaborative effort to resist the economic doxa, and to reclaim and reinvent the impact agenda as a route towards the establishment of new public humanities. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01