European Capitals Of Culture And Everyday Cultural Diversity: A Comparison of Liverpool (UK) and Marseilles (France)

Claire Bullen (1)

1 University of Manchester [Manchester]

This monograph is the fruit of an attempt develop an analytical framework to compare everyday cultural diversity in two multi-ethnic urban neighbourhoods in France and the United Kingdom. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, the European Capital of Culture programme was used as an analytical entry point to explore: 1) the local, national and European cultural policy contexts and their interaction with urban restructuring; 2) policy implementation at the local level; and 3) the ways in which the lives and practices of ‘ordinary people’ and cultural actors are affected by cultural policy implementation. The research explored whether actual understandings and implementation of the European Capital of Culture programme are alike in the two cities, places with similar histories, facing comparable social and economic challenges yet situated in different national policy contexts. This study draws out the ways in which European, national and city-level debates on the norms, principles and policies of cultural diversity and culture-led regeneration interact with and impact upon the quality of lives of ordinary people.

Mots clés: European Capital of Culture; Comparison; Liverpool; Marseilles

Domaines: Anthropologie sociale et ethnologie

Claire Bullen. European Capitals Of Culture And Everyday Cultural Diversity: A Comparison of Liverpool (UK) and Marseilles (France). 2013. ⟨hal-01423186⟩