Call for Papers – Makings: Researching the Creative Industries
The editorial team invites researchers of all stages to submit 300-word abstracts for its very first issue after the relaunch of the Creative Industries cluster journal.
Issue 2: Creative Practice with Archive Film: borders, peripheries and localised microhistories
By Angela English, Birmingham City University Abstract Archivists, practitioners and curators face particular challenges in working with ‘pre-digital’ moving image archive material, especially if this material is not part of […]
Issue 2: How have creatives contributed to gentrification? A case study of London, Hackney.
By Evelyn Fasulu Abstract Cities all over the world have used creativity as a tactic to increase social-economic growth, portraying a constructed ideal of what an artistic, bohemian lifestyle needs. […]
Issue 2: Editorial Volume 1
This issue of CICJ gathers a number of interconnected themes under the usefully ambiguous title ‘Borders and Hinterlands’. In early 2019 researchers from BCU’s BCMCR met to share their ostensibly unrelated research […]
Issue 2: The Male Gaze Re-Invented: Amateur Visuals at Underground Gigs
By Bryony Williams As a performer and audience member, a certain trend has come to my attention where older male audience participants seem to be exclusively filming female performers during […]
Researching and performing jazz
By Lee Griffiths My research interests are centred around jazz in its various forms. In this essay I will trace the genealogy of my research interests from my experience as […]
Attention Industry Professionals!!! Call for Shorts from the frontline….
The editorial team of Creative Industries Cluster Journal (CICJ) are seeking four short pieces of writing, video or audio from industry professionals working on the frontline of art and culture at grassroots level. […]
Issue 2: Call for Papers
The editorial team of Creative Industries Cluster Journal (CICJ) invite creative practitioners, PhD, MA students and BCMCR staff to submit 300 word abstracts for the second issue of the journal. The theme for this issue is ‘“Borders and […]
Editorial: CICJ Volume 1 Issue 1
Download the PDF of this article Editorial: Cultural Ecologies issue of Creative Industries Cluster Journal By Karen Patel and Sihlangu Tsuma, Birmingham City University Editors of the Creative Industries Cluster […]
The Emperor’s New Ecology
Download the PDF of this article The Emperor’s New Ecology By Martin Cox, Birmingham City University Abstract Government arts funding has provided an official policy framework for cultural intermediation, creative […]