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‘A Slow Reach Again for Control’: Raymond Williams and the Vicissitudes of Cultural Policy

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The primary aim of this essay is to outline Raymond Williams’s contribution to formulating and making sense of cultural policy issues. Williams is widely acknowledged as a founding theorist and probably the founding theorist of cultural studies, an interdisciplinary field of research and education which has become increasingly popular and influential throughout the anglophone world over the past few years. Williams’s concern with cultural policy, however, is not so widely acknowledged or appreciated.

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  1. See, for example, the October 1992 issue of the journal, Cultural Studies, that was devoted to the Australian debate on ‘cultural policy studies’.

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  1. University of Glamorgan, UK

    Jeff Wallace (Senior Lecturer in English), Rod Jones (Senior Lecturer in the History of Art) & Sophie Nield (Lecturer in Theatre and Media Drama) (Senior Lecturer in English),  (Senior Lecturer in the History of Art) &  (Lecturer in Theatre and Media Drama)

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McGuigan, J. (1997). ‘A Slow Reach Again for Control’: Raymond Williams and the Vicissitudes of Cultural Policy. In: Wallace, J., Jones, R., Nield, S. (eds) Raymond Williams Now. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230373464_4

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