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1 online resource |
| Series |
The wish list |
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WISH list.
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| Contents |
Introduction / Jonathan Bate (University of Warwick) -- Part One: Learning from the Past -- 1. Live Classics: Or 'What's the use of Aeschylus in Darfur?' / Mary Beard (University of Cambridge) -- 2. The Value of Archaeological Research / Mike Parker Pearson (Sheffield University) -- 3. Why Religious History Matters: Perspectives from 1851 / John Wolffe (The Open University) -- 4. The Use and Abuse of National History and the National Poet / Jonathan Bate (University of Warwick) -- 5. Custodians and Active Citizens / Robert Hampson (Royal Holloway, University of London) -- 6. Architectural History in Academia and the Wider Community / Deborah Howard (University of Cambridge) -- 7. 'This is a local film': The Cultural and Social Impact of the Mitchell & Kenyon Film Collection / Vanessa Toulmin (University of Sheffield) -- Part Two: Looking Around Us -- 8. Living Landscapes / Stephen Daniels (University of Nottingham) and Ben Cowell (National Trust) -- 9. Making a Home: English Culture and English Landscape / Matthew H. Johnson (University of Southampton) -- 10. Accidental Haiku, or Encouragement, Enlightenment and Raising Aspiration / Catherine Leyshon (University of Exeter) -- 11. Thinking about Architecture / Iain Borden (University College London) -- 12. 'All this Useless Beauty': The Hidden Value of Research in Art and Design / Mike Press (University of Dundee) -- 13. A Museum Perspective / Christopher Breward (Victoria and Albert Museum) -- 14. The Value of Music Research to Life in the UK / Katie Overy (University of Edinburgh) |
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Part Three: Informing Policy -- 15. Hard Cases, Hard Times and the Humanity of Law / Gary Watt (University of Warwick) -- 16. The Value of Genocide Studies / Jurgen Zimmerer (University of Sheffield) -- 17. History and Public Policy / Simon Szreter (University of Cambridge) -- 18. 'Sorting the Sheep from the Sheep': Value, Worth and the Creative Industries / Richard Howells (King's College, London) -- Part Four: Using Words, Thinking Hard -- 19. Language Matters 1: Linguistics / April McMahon, Will Barras, Lynn Clark, Remco Knooihuizen, Amanda Patten and Jennifer Sullivan (University of Edinburgh) -- 20. Language Matters 2: Modern Languages / Michael Kelly (University of Southampton) -- 21. Making Meaning: Literary Research in the Twenty-first Century / Francis O'Gorman (University of Leeds) -- 22. The Value of Art and the Art of Evaluation / Ronan McDonald (University of New South Wales) -- 23. 'And your point is ... ' / Chris Gosden (University of Oxford) -- 24. Philosophy and the Quest for the Unpredictable / Nicholas Davey (University of Dundee) |
| Summary |
Recession is a time for asking fundamental questions about value. At a time when governments are being forced to make swingeing savings in public expenditure, why should they continue to invest public money funding research into ancient Greek tragedy, literary value, philosophical conundrums or the aesthetics of design? Does such research deliver 'value for money' and 'public benefit'? Such questions have become especially pertinent in the UK in recent years, in the context of the drive by government to instrumentalize research across the disciplines and the prominence of discussions about 'economic impact' and 'knowledge transfer'. In this book a group of distinguished humanities researchers, all working in Britain, but publishing research of international importance, reflect on the public value of their discipline, using particular research projects as case-studies. Their essays are passionate, sometimes polemical, often witty and consistently thought-provoking, covering a range of humanities disciplines from theology to architecture and from media studies to anthropology |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Original version 597 p |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Humanities -- Research grants -- Great Britain -- Case studies.
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Humanities -- Research grants -- Great Britain.
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Humanities -- Research -- Great Britain -- Case studies.
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Humanities -- Research -- Great Britain.
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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Case studies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bate, Jonathan.
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| ISBN |
1849660638 (electronic bk.) |
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9781849660631 (electronic bk.) |
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