Arts and Community Change: Exploring Cultural Development Policies, Practices and Dilemmas

Arts and Community Change: Exploring Cultural Development Policies, Practices and Dilemmas provides community workers and planners with strategies to develop arts policy that enriches communities and their residents, critically examining the central tensions and complexities in arts policy and paying attention to issues of gentrification and stratification.

Author: Max O. Jr. Stephenson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 05/20/2015
Pages: 242
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.55d
ISBN: 9781138024342

About the Author

Max Stephenson, Jr. is Professor of Public and International Affairs, School of Public and International Affairs at Virginia Tech, USA, and Director of the Virginia Tech Institute for Policy and Governance. His current research and teaching interests include the arts and community change processes, nongovernmental organizations and international development and peacebuilding.

A. Scott Tate is an educator and community development practitioner. He currently serves as a senior economic development specialist in the Office of Economic Development at Virginia Tech, USA. His community work includes directing or co-directing the Engaging Communities and Campuses national demonstration project and the Virginia Entrepreneur Express Workshop Series.