In a research field dominated by worthy activist polemics, Stevenson offers a cool-headed, clear, and thorough guide to the sociology of a policy struggle. Focused on the colonization of art and culture by economics and its reduction to creative industries, Stevensons book offers artists, institutions, policy makers and students everyone in the art world complex in fact an opportunity to grapple with the scale, complexity, and values of a much-needed policy change. -- Adrian Franklin, University of South Australia, Australia In a research field dominated by worthy activist polemics, Stevenson offers a cool-headed, clear, and thorough guide to the sociology of a policy struggle. Focussed on the colonisation of art and culture by economics and its reduction to creative industries, Stevensons book offers artists, institutions, policy makers and students everyone in the Art World Complex in fact an opportunity to grapple with the scale, complexity and values of a much-needed policy change. -- Adrian Franklin, University of South Australia, Australia Cultural Policy Beyond the Economy: Work, Value, and the Social is both an outstanding introduction to key issues in cultural policy, as well as a major contribution to the field. Thinking through issues of place, work, education, and value, Stevenson argues for a new vision of cultural policy grounded in the need to remember, and then to rethink, the social basis of culture. -- David O'Brien, University of Sheffield, UK
