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Arts space under (narrative) construction.

Abstract

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Located at the intersection of urban development and civic arts governance, an experimental arts space is diversely represented by its three vested groups. For Calgary Municipal Land Corp (CMLC), the Seafood Market is a grassroots marketing campaign; for Calgary Arts Development Authority (CADA), the repurposed building is an experiment in arts space governance; and for artists the donated space is a temporarily affordable haven at the centre of a ‘creative city’ make-over. Helping to identify the underlying motives and methods of these narrators are Bourdieu’s capitals theory and Lefebrve’s notions of spatial practices. By combining a narrative research approach for data analysis with an arts-based research text, this communications case study demonstrates the conscription of artists as characters in the dominant narrative of urban gentrification and the influences limiting their active participation in complicating that narrative.

Degree

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Name thesis:degree_name
Master of Arts (MA)
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
Communications Studies
Grantor dc:publisher.institution
Graduate Studies
Year dc:date.issued
2012

Author and committee

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Author dc:creator
  • Deimert, Julie
Advisor dc:contributor.advisor
  • Dr. Rusted, Brian

Subjects

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Rights

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Statement dc:rights
  • University of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.
Language dc:language.iso
eng

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oai:ucalgary.scholaris.ca:11023/291

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Deimert, Julie. Arts space under (narrative) construction.. Graduate Studies, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11023/291