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dc.contributor.authorChanner, Julie
dc.date.accessioned2013-06-25T12:22:51Z
dc.date.issued2013-03-28
dc.description.abstractThis thesis explores the forms, fields and forces that relate to state governance of ‘the creative industries’ in South West England (1997-2010). Focusing on regional agencies that were involved in delivering Labour’s agenda for a ‘creative economy and elements of Creative Britain (DCMS et al., 2008), questions of multi-scalar governance, spatial-temporal ‘fix’ and re-scaling state space (Goodwin et al, 2005; Jessop, 2007) are examined. Despite the reported economic importance of ‘the creative industries’ (The Work Foundation, 2007), ‘joined up’ governance at the regional scale proved difficult to manage. A congested and turbulent institutional landscape at national and regional level was compounded by lack of fit between cultural and economic policies (Jayne, 2005; O’Connor, 2007; Pratt, 2005). Towards the end of Labour’s rule, Government fiscal reform and economic recession further threatened both economic and cultural 'state spaces' (Brenner, 2004) and by mid 2010 the regional experiment was over. Using a multi-level and in-depth case study approach, the thesis looks at how ‘historically specific configurations of state space are produced and incessantly reworked’ (Brenner, 2004: 76). Following discourse on ‘new state space’ (Jones and Jessop, 2010), a political geography of a state landscape is explored. Of particular significance, and highlighting the problematic interface between the economic and cultural spheres, are Culture South West, South West Screen and the South West Creative Economy Partnership. An argument is made that state bodies are both reactive and proactive mediators, whose ‘imaginaries of power’such as ‘the creative industries’, are hegemonic devices that evolve over time and space. Whether intentional or serendipity, the effects of structural and processual inter-relations are occasional ‘moments’ (Jones, 2009a) of coherence when governance success prevails. These moments are critical to state bodies for (re)producing hierarchies, (re)affirming power relations and (re)aligning political goals.en_GB
dc.description.sponsorshipESRCen_GB
dc.identifier.grantnumberESRC/G011222/1en_GB
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10871/11382
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherUniversity of Exeteren_GB
dc.rights.embargoreasonThe contents of this thesis are embargoed for publication reasons.en_GB
dc.rightsThis thesis is available for Library use on the understanding that it is copyright material and that no quotation from the thesis may be published without proper acknowledgement of the author. This material is embargoed for 18 months and all permissions must be sought from the author in the interim period.en_GB
dc.subjectstate governanceen_GB
dc.subjectspatial-temporal fixen_GB
dc.subjectcreative industriesen_GB
dc.titleForms, Fields and Forces: an exploration of state governance of the creative industries in South West Englanden_GB
dc.typeThesis or dissertationen_GB
dc.date.available2014-12-31T04:00:09Z
dc.contributor.advisorGoodwin, Mark
dc.contributor.advisorHarvey, David
dc.publisher.departmentGeographyen_GB
dc.type.degreetitlePhD in Geographyen_GB
dc.type.qualificationlevelDoctoralen_GB
dc.type.qualificationnamePhDen_GB


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