CCCI@City

Gender, Subjectivity and Neoliberalism

Ros gave a short talk at King’s on November 30th at an event to mark the publication of Christina Scharff’s new book on the classicall music profession. Joining a panel to talk about subjectivity in neoliberal times, Ros discussed the MeToo campaign and the recent engagement of Meghan Markle to Prince Harry, asking how we…

Postfeminist culture: 10 years on

Rosalind Gill’s Postfeminist Media Culture: Elements of a Sensibility – published in 2007 – is apparently the most read and most cited article in the European Journal of Cultural studies. To honour that Ros was asked to write a new lead article for the 20th anniversary issue of the journal and also to launch a…

Righting Feminism

Ros Gill and Shani Orgad have contributed to a new special issue of New Formations on ‘Righting Feminism’. Their paper looks at how the cult of promoting female self-confidence as a solution to inequality is part of a wider neoliberalization of feminism. https://www.lwbooks.co.uk/new-formations/91/confidence-culture-remaking-feminism

Andy in Mexico with UNESCO

Andy was invited to be a member of an international team of UNESCO experts to help to develop a new cultural policy framework for the city of Zapopan/Guadalajara (population approx 3 million). The aim is that this policy framework will be an exemplar that can be used by UNESCO elsewhere as a practical demonstration of…

Quasi-public space and culture

Andy has a new paper out today, based on some work that he has been doing on the Kings Cross ‘Granary Square’, and the Knowledge Quarter; and with the ‘Culture Mile’ in the City of London. This article argues that whilst appearing new, quasi-public spaces have emerged from a process of investment restructuring over the…

“Creative Economies: An international Paradigm in European Cities”

On November 24, Janet Merkel was invited as a keynote speaker in the “Creative Economies: An international Paradigm in European Cities” Workshop at the Institute of Sociology, University of St. Gallen. The workshop was organized by the Research Committee Sociology of Arts and Culture of the Swiss Sociological Association. Janet’s talk focused on the social,…

Reclaiming Schools seminar

‘Reclaiming Schools’ was set up to support campaigns for progressive and socially responsible education, and aims to make reliable research available to teachers and the wider community. Last week they held a seminar in York on ‘Poverty and Education’, which drew together academics working in sociology, psychology and education with local teachers and students. Participants…

Jo talks at UEA

Jo Littler travelled to the University of East Anglia in Norwich last week to give a talk to the Film, Television and Media Studies department about her new book Against Meritocracy: Culture, Power and Myths of Mobility.

Forum of Saint Louis (Senegal) – Ideation on ‘Cities and Metamorphosis’

On November 25th to 27th, the northern secondary city of Senegal, Saint Louis, welcomed its first Forum dedicated to ‘Africa: Thinking A World Anew’. The Forum of Saint Louis aims to be a platform for African creativities in all their forms and expressions, by shedding light on innovation from the continent to inspire Africans and the…

Cultural mapping in Khazakhstan

Andy was a member of an expert group organised by the British Council to advise the City of Astana (the capital city), and Khazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan on techniques and approaches to measuring the scale of the cultural economy, and developing Creative Economy Leadership for Central Asia. Based on his experience with the UK DCMS,…