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Constructing habitus: promoting an international arts trend at the Singapore Arts Festival
The Singapore Arts Festival (SAF) is Singapore’s largest government-supported international arts festival. SAF presents the best in international and local arts, in an attempt, to develop what it perceives to be a lack of cultural knowledge of the Singaporean arts-going public. Using Pierre Bourdieu’s key concept of ‘habitus’ together with an analysis of the programming of the festival, this paper will highlight how the festival seeks to create a specific cultural taste in Singaporean art-goers through privileging and promoting works that are internationally marketable to European countries. The paper will conclude that this programming style occurs at the expense of Singaporean artists and hinders the development of the city’s state cultural and artistic development
Understanding culture-led local development: A critique of alternative theoretical explanations
In this paper we carry out a meta-analytic review of the literature on culture-led local development
models.We identify and discuss three typical fallacies characterising mono-causal culture-led development
schemes: instrumentalism, over-engineering, and parochialism.We then discuss their analytical
background, and provide examples illustrating the consequences of each. Based upon this
critical discussion, we make a case for a ‘new territorial thinking’ approach that takes into account
the tangled hierarchy of global and local viewpoints that is connatural to spatially situated cultural
production, and focuses upon a non-linear, multi-causal scheme as the only possible framework for
the policy design of credible, socially accountable, culture-led development strategie