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A Comparison of Liverpool (UK) and Marseilles (France) Claire Bullen European Capitals Of Culture And Everyday Cultural Diversity: A Comparison of Liverpool (UK) and Marseilles (France) Claire Bullen Liverpool Marseilles CULTURAL POLICY RESEARCH AWARD 2010 1 CULTURAL POLICY RESEARCH AWARD Claire Bullen PhD candidate The Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures (RICC) University of Manchester, UK 2 European Capitals Of Culture And Everyday Cultural Diversity: A Comparison of Liverpool (UK) and Marseilles (France) Claire Bullen Liverpool Marseilles CULTURAL POLICY RESEARCH AWARD 2010 3 4 Table of contents Table of contents 5 Foreword 8 Acknowledgements 10 Executive summary 13 Acronyms and abbreviations 16 1 Introduction 18 1.1 Project aims 20 1.2 Report structure 22 2 Setting out the research framework 24 2.1 Why cities? Exploring the new urban turn in policy making 24 2.2 Why culture in cities? The cultural ‘turn’ in urban policy 25 2.3 Why compare? 26 2.4 Clarifying some comparative concepts 28 2.4.1 Clarifying concepts 1: Cities and city scale 28 2.4.2 Clarifying concepts 2: Culture policy and the European Capital of Culture 31 2.4.3 Clarifying concepts 3: Identity, social relations and intercultural dialogue 32 2.5 Why Liverpool and Marseilles? Similar yet different… 34 2.6 Why France and the UK? 36 3 Research methodology 39 4 Situating the European Capital of Culture 46 4.1 Liverpool 46 4.1.1 A city ‘on the brink’ 47 4.1.2 Nascent cultural policy 51 5 4.1.3 Going for European cultural capital 54 4.1.4 Who decided what? The institutional framework for the bid 55 4.1.5 World in One City: from race relations to celebrations of diversity 58 4.1.6 Bringing in ‘worldly’ expertise 63 4.1.7 Diverse opportunities? 64 4.2 ‘Pick and mix’. Policy exchange and learning in Europe 66 4.3 Marseilles 68 4.3.1 Culture to manage (urban) ‘chaos’ 69 4.3.2 Cultural policy à la marseillaise 72 4.3.3 The ‘foreign city’ 75 4.3.4 Professionalising and Parisian-ising the project 78 4.3.5 Inventing Marseilles as a Euro-Mediterranean capital 80 4.3.6 A discourse that ebbs and flows 82 4.3.7 Exploring similarities and differences 83 5 Cultural-led regeneration 85 5.1 Liverpool 86 5.1.1 Liverpool’s take on cultural-led urban regeneration 86 5.1.2 Culture, the ‘city centre’ and the ‘neighbourhoods’ 87 5.1.3 Arts institutions as partners in Liverpool’s regeneration 89 5.1.4 The ‘world’ comes to Kensington 91 5.1.4.1 Developing a neighbourhood cultural policy 93 5.2 Marseilles 96 5.2.1 Cultural-led regeneration and the city centre 96 5.2.2 Capital of Culture and the quartiers 98 5.2.3 Marseilles-Provence’s Creative Urban Project 99 5.2.4 Intersection of ‘culture’ and regeneration in Saint Mauront 103 5.2.5 Variation finding 109 6 Focussing on arts and cultural organisations 112 6.1 Liverpool 112 6.1.1 Everybody’s an artist, but some more equal than others? 112 6.1.2 Representing the world? A question of when and where 115 6 6.1.3 The multicultural model in Kensington 119 6.1.4 Alternative approaches? 122 6.2 Marseilles 127 6.2.1 Who are the ‘artists’ and ‘cultural workers’ in Marseilles? 127 6.2.2 Qui est ‘in’, qui est ‘out’? 127 6.2.3 What does an ‘artist’ look like in Marseilles? 129 6.2.4 The ‘off’ and the left-out 132 6.2.5 What does a ‘participant’ look like? 133 6.2.6 Drawing out some similarities and differences 136 7 Culture, diversity and everyday social spatial relations 139 7.1 Liverpool 139 7.1.1 Whose culture? Who’s cultural? 140 7.2 Marseilles 148 7.3 Similarities and variations 154 8 Last words from the field 156 8.1 Post 2008 and about Liverpool’s ‘legacy’ 156 8.2 Marseilles, post 2014 162 9 Conclusions 164 9.1 Recommendations for future research 167 9.2 Recommendations for policy-makers 168 10 References and resources 172 10.1 Interviewees 172 10.2 Websites consulted 176 10.3 Newspaper articles 178 10.4 Bibliography 179 10.5 List of CPRA 2010 Jury Members 191 10.6 Biographical note: author 195 7 Foreword Ten years ago, in 2003, the European Cultural Foundation (ECF) and the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ) decided to set-up the Cultural Policy Research Award (CPRA). The initiative was launched in 2004 with the aim to encourage applied comparative research in the cultural policy area in Europe by supporting a younger generation of cultural policy scholars. The CPRA award and competition is based on the submission of a research proposal that is assessed by an international jury of cultural policy experts. At the occasion of the annual Young Cultural Policy Researchers Forum, the six finalists of the competition present their research project to the jury. The winner is awarded a grant of €10,000 to accomplish the research project within one year. The annual CPRA competition and the Forum are developed in partnership with and managed by ENCATC (European Network of Cultural Administration Training Centres). Claire Bullen’s European Capitals Of Culture And Everyday Cultural Diversity: A comparison of Liverpool (UK) And Marseilles (France) - is the seventh accomplished CPRA research, and the first to be released in the framework of the CPRA’s 10th anniversary. Claire Bullen is a PhD candidate at the Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures (RICC) at the University of Manchester, UK. Her research proposal was selected by the international jury in 2010 due to its highly relevant topic and methodology. Thanks to the award Claire was able to carry out very interesting ethnographic field research in both cities. She spent several months in urban areas of Marseilles and Liverpool collaborating 8 closely with local arts organisations, community groups and individuals, using this experience to provide insight into an important yet often overshadowed aspect of European Capitals of Culture: the impact on and the involvement of diverse communities in cities’ cultural lives. Through a multilayered comparative analysis she reveals realities, gains and missed opportunities of Liverpool and Marseilles Cultural Capitals processes and events. This publication presents not only Claire’s research process and findings but takes the reader on an exciting journey. We wish to thank Claire Bullen for her original and insightful contribution to European cultural policy research. We trust that her analysis and recommendations will nurture constructively the debate on European Capitals of Culture. We also sincerely thank the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond and ENCATC for their longstanding partnership in this initiative. Isabelle Schwarz Head of Programmes and Advocacy, European Cultural Foundation, January 2013 9 Acknowledgements It has been a privilege to have spent the last two years carrying out research in Liverpool and Marseilles within the framework of this project. I haven’t been able to do justice here to everything that I have learnt and experienced, nor can I mention everybody who has been instrumental in my being able to write this. However, I would like to take this occasion to acknowledge those who opened up their rooms, houses and homes to me, introduced me to family and friends, and guided me around and beyond their city. I would also like to express my gratitude towards the many organisations that offered me an ‘insider’s perspective’ to the workings of a cultural association. In particular, I would like to thank, in Marseilles: T.Public, association d’idées and Matthieu Bouchain for sharing his razor-sharp analysis of local and global issues, his creativity and wit; Les Pas Perdus for a rewarding, on- going collaboration full of rich discussions and friendship, and all the volunteers and workers of the CLCV. In Liverpool I would like to acknowledge the warm welcome and support of Black-E, Asylum Link Merseyside and Oli Thomas from Making Faces United CIC. Thanks also to Father Fitzgerald, and the “Sunday lunch team”. Considerable thanks are due to all those who gave up their time to be interviewed. Of course, this research would never have been possible without the generous financial support from theEuropean Cultural Foundation (ECF) and the Riksbankens Jubileumfond and I thank them, and the support of ENCATC in providing this chance, and through the Young Cultural Policy Researchers Forum, for offering 10 me a space to discuss and observe the ways in which cultural policy is currently being conceptualised and debated across the European continent. I would particularly like to thank Tsveta Andreeva at the ECF for her efficient and friendly support. I also acknowledge the generous support of UACES (University Association for Contemporary European Studies) for awarding me with a travel scholarship to carry out three months’ ethnographic fieldwork within the association Marseilles-Provence 2013 between February and May 2013. This opportunity was made possible by Isabelle Coustet, formerly Evaluation & European funding Manager at Marseille-Provence 2013 (now at the European Parliament), who offered me the rare opportunity to be an intern within MP2013. Her good humour, intellectual generosity and patience at guiding me through some very confusing local, regional and European politics made the experience very interesting and also very enjoyable. I have been lucky enough to participate in a number of different research groups. The Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures has been a wonderfully supportive environment in which to explore questions of culture and cosmopolitanism. I also have benefited from a fantastic supervision team being guided by Nina Glick Schiller, Sarah Green and Alan Harding at the University of Manchester. I’ve benefited from being involved in the “City Scalers” team at the University of Vienna.
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