CCCI@City

Ros Gill and Les Back talk universities: Feb 7th, 2:30-4pm, City, University of London

Rosalind Gill was out and about with Les Back (Goldsmiths) last week talking about his book Academic Diary (Goldsmiths Press), and the challenges facing staff and students in Universities. Ros and Les had an animated exchange about this last year in the International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10767-017-9263-9 They continued their good-natured discussion…

Meritocracy and celebrity in Denmark

Dr Jo Littler from CCI travelled to Denmark last week. There was a talk and a book launch for Against Meritocracy at Roskilde University, and the next day she gave the keynote at the Nordic Celebrity Studies Network Annual Conference, speaking about celebrity motherhood.

‘What does equality look like?’ article in @Gdninequality

Dr Jo Littler from CCI was invited to contribute a piece to The Guardian‘s ‘Inequality project’. Her article ‘Inequality is under attack — but what does equality look like?’ can be read here

Desert Island Discs contribution

A new book Defining the Discographic Self: Desert Island Discs in Context, edited by Julie Brown, Nicholas Cook and Steve Cottrell, is out now with Oxford University Press. In the editors description, the book “brings together musicologists, sociologists, and media scholars in one volume. They reflect on the programme’s significance, its position within the BBC…

Cultural polis, governance and informality in the Global South

Dr Jenny Mbaye from CCCI co-authored an article with Dr Cecilia Dinardi (Goldsmith University), which was recently published in the peer-reviewed academic journal, Urban Studies, as part of a special issue dedicated to informality in CCI. The article addressed issues of cultural policy and urban governance in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and Dakar (Senegal), while…

Korean Trust Fund for CCI in Rwanda

Following up from her mission as member of UNESCO 2005 Convention’s Expert Facility in Rwanda (2016), Dr Jenny Mbaye from CCCI was recently in Kigali (Rwanda) (January 8-12) to prepare the project launch for the UNESCO Korean Funds-in-Trust “Stengthening the cultural and creative industries in Rwanda”. Jenny was selected to be the international expert responsible…

Resilient culture

Andy has a new chapter published today- the first of the new year!- in a collection on the role of art and culture in urban and regional resilience. Andy’s chapter is a reprint of an article published last year in the journal European Planning Studies. Pratt, A. C. (2018). Beyond Resilience: Learning from the cultural…

Innovative writing from CCCI

Janet Merkel and Andy Pratt have separate chapters in a new ‘Elgar Companion to Innovation and Knowledge Creation’. This is a multidisciplinary collection by world-leaders in the field, and promises to be a standard on reading lists. CCCI is unique in having two contributors from a single university; and particular congratulations to Janet who is…

Jenny in the Spanish newspaper, El Paìs – on Culture and creativity in African cities

Following her intervention at the Forum of Saint Louis, Jenny was interviewed by the Spanish newspaper El Paìs to share her reflection on the role of culture and creativity in transforming African cities. Drawing on her recent experience as scientific adviser for the Arterial Network’s pilot programme of African Creative Cities Network (AACC), she reminded…

Adding to The Conversation with a piece on African urban cultural transformation

Jenny was recently approached by The Conversation to contribute with an article on urban cultural governance in African cities. The article entitled ‘Mali’s cultural capital shows how citizen-centred development can trump gentrification’ was seen by over 79 000 readers all of over the world. Article can be found: https://theconversation.com/malis-cultural-capital-shows-how-citizen-centred-development-can-trump-gentrification-77810