Sustaining university arts can give us the antidote to our toxic political culture
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BOEHM, Carola (2019) Sustaining university arts can give us the antidote to our toxic political culture. WONKHE, WONKHE - the home of higher education policy.
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While writing a foreword to a book to be published next year, all about the joyful topic of arts and academia, I am constantly astounded how our basic expectations of human civility in our daily Brexit-y lives are under threat. Between our ability to be funny about the politics of the day and our seemingly biased media, we have become numbed to the routine of a disdainful pragmatism used by our political leaders, where anything – even referendum interference – is an acceptable means to an end (see The Guardian’s investigation around the Cambridge Analytica scandal). Between the current ongoing fear-inducing posturing of our UK’s current government’s attempt to get Brexit over the line and the rather suppressed and depressing outflow of news from burning rainforests and melting artic glaciers, I ask myself what is in my toolbox that can cut through this quagmire.
This article is asking the question of why we need University-housed Art Schools in our Brexit-y times.
| Item Type: | Other |
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| Faculty: | School of Creative Arts and Engineering > Humanities and Performing Arts |
| Depositing User: | Carola BOEHM |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Oct 2019 12:35 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Feb 2023 13:57 |
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| URI: | https://eprints.staffs.ac.uk/id/eprint/5919 |
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