Expertise, the academy and the governance of cultural policy

Abstract

My research into British cultural policy-making and the so-called creative economy has led me to consider the role of experts in producing the discourse of creativity (Schlesinger 2007; 2009a). 1 To date, the efforts of critics to deconstruct the creative economy have had little effect on its salience as a focus of policy-making (Bustamante (ed.) 2011).Moreover, research on the topic is growing and it is increasingly institutionalised in learning and teaching.One long-standing advocate of the cause, Stuart Cunningham (2009: 375), sees the depth of opposition to the creative economy amongst critical scholars as 'a textbook case of the disabling gap between policy and critique'.However, rather than academics constituting two opposed camps -those of 'policy' and

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