This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open
Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.
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.
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ISBN
9781849660631
Publisert
2015
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Bloomsbury Academic
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Product language
Engelsk
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Digital bok
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