Narrative, Identity, and the Map of Cultural Policy: Once Upon a Time in a Globalized World

Co-Author: Martin Griffin
Author info: Associate Professor of English
Publication Date: October 2013
Publisher: Ashgate
Synopsis: The story of arts and cultural policy in the twenty-first century is inherently of global concern no matter how local it seems. At the same time, questions of identity have in many ways become more challenging than before. This book explores how and why stories and identities sometimes merge and often clash in an arena in which culture and policy may not be able to resolve every difficulty. The authors argue that the role of narrative is key to understanding these issues. They offer a wide-ranging history and justification for narrative frameworks as an approach to cultural policy and open up a wider field of discussion about the ways in which cultural politics and cultural identity are being deployed and interpreted in the present, with deep roots in the past.