Defund Culture
Calls to expand public investment in the arts often treat the existing cultural and institutional landscape as a given. Defund Culture challenges this assumption, asking instead what kinds of culture are being supported, through which institutions, and to whose benefit. In pursuing these questions,...
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| description | Calls to expand public investment in the arts often treat the existing cultural and institutional landscape as a given. Defund Culture challenges this assumption, asking instead what kinds of culture are being supported, through which institutions, and to whose benefit. In pursuing these questions, the book turns attention to the structural inequalities that shape Britain’s creative and intellectual life. Drawing on critical theory, political philosophy, and cultural policy, Gary Hall shows how the dominance of white, male, middle- and upper-class voices in the arts, media, and academy is sustained through longstanding funding arrangements and institutional hierarchies. Expanding access within this system—however well intentioned—will not, on its own, produce structural change. Rather than offering a programme of reform, Defund Culture explores what it might mean to disinvest from cultural institutions as they currently operate. Taking cues from abolitionist calls to defund the police, Hall proposes redistributing resources away from elite institutions and toward more collective, commons-oriented, and radically relational alternatives grounded in redistribution, institutional transformation, and epistemic pluriversality. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1759252026-04-20T09:23:00Z Defund Culture Hall, Gary Cultural studies Federal government Cultural policies & debates thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies::JBCC8 Cultural policies and debates thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPQ Central / national / federal government thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AB The arts: general topics thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPQ Central / national / federal government::JPQB Central / national / federal government policies Calls to expand public investment in the arts often treat the existing cultural and institutional landscape as a given. Defund Culture challenges this assumption, asking instead what kinds of culture are being supported, through which institutions, and to whose benefit. In pursuing these questions, the book turns attention to the structural inequalities that shape Britain’s creative and intellectual life. Drawing on critical theory, political philosophy, and cultural policy, Gary Hall shows how the dominance of white, male, middle- and upper-class voices in the arts, media, and academy is sustained through longstanding funding arrangements and institutional hierarchies. Expanding access within this system—however well intentioned—will not, on its own, produce structural change. Rather than offering a programme of reform, Defund Culture explores what it might mean to disinvest from cultural institutions as they currently operate. Taking cues from abolitionist calls to defund the police, Hall proposes redistributing resources away from elite institutions and toward more collective, commons-oriented, and radically relational alternatives grounded in redistribution, institutional transformation, and epistemic pluriversality. 2026-04-20T09:22:59Z 2026-04-20T09:22:59Z 2026-04-16T13:21:11Z 2026 book ONIX_20260415T184307_9781951399405_3 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/112477 9781951399405 9781951399436 9781951399412 9781951399429 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/175925 eng Media Manifold Series open access image/jpeg n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/112477/1/9781951399405.pdf mediastudies.press mediastudies.press 10.64629/3f8575cb.67ab11w2 10.64629/3f8575cb.67ab11w2 ab2a2fb4-e616-4093-bc86-c1b43fa99fe8 9781951399405 9781951399436 9781951399412 9781951399429 mediastudies.press 97 Bethlehem, PA open access |
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