Author:
Bell David,Orozco Lourdes
Abstract
AbstractDavid Bell and Lourdes Orozco introduce key debates in human geography about spatial scale and about the scale of the local, set in the context of cultural policy’s geographies. The chapter’s focus is on how different understandings of spatial scale matter for cultural policy research and practice. Unpacking the local scale and showing it to be relational and translocal, the chapter then deploys key concepts to a case study—a previous research project by the authors that investigated small arts venues, their neighbourhoods and their audiences. By focusing on the urban, neighbourhood and individual (person/building) scales, and then discussing these relationally as an arts ecology, the case study shows how a scalar approach can bring new ways of understanding cultural policy’s geographies.
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
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