10th November (Tuesday)
1.5 hours
New York 17:00 (Tuesday 10th)
Buenos Aires 19:00 (Tuesday 10th)
Amsterdam 23:00 (Tuesday 10th)
Nairobi 01:00 (Weds 11th)
Bangkok 05:00 (Weds 11th)
Warrane-Sydney 09:00 (Weds 11th)
Aotearoa-NZ 11:00 (Weds 11th)
Organiser: Molly Mullen
Abstract
How might diverse and community economies (DE/CE) scholarship expand what is visible, imaginable, and actionable in cultural policy? This session includes three short presentations examining how DE/CE theory and methods can unsettle dominant understandings of economy, work, and value within cultural policy in Aotearoa New Zealand. Together, we propose DE/CE informed approaches can contribute to a broader policy imaginary, making visible economic practices, relationships, and forms of organisation that are often obscured by traditional policy and policy analysis frameworks.
Presentation 1: Jessie Anderson: Reading for economic difference: A tool for policy analysis?
Presentation 2: Elise Sterback: Embodied practice for collective policy making
Presentation 3: Molly Mullen, Bridget Conor, Mark Harvey: Rethinking Cultural Work in Aotearoa, a research project overview
Presenters will discuss the use of diverse economies methods, including reading for difference, to identify and amplify existing economic alternatives and possibilities. Rather than treating policy analysis solely as a site of critique – focused on exposing absence, failure or deficit – DE/CE-informed approaches seek to make existing alternatives more visible and credible, thereby performing possibilities for economic and policy difference.
Featuring: Jessie Anderson, Bridget Conor, Mark Harvey, Molly Mullen, Elise Sterback