Here’s the back cover text for my forthcoming book, Defund Culture: A Radical Proposal –Why the Arts Are So White, Male, and Middle-Class and What We Can Do About It

https://openbookcollective.org/view/package/11/summary/

https://openbookcollective.org/books/book/5679981/

Calls to expand public investment in the #arts often treat the existing cultural and institutional landscape as a given. In Defund Culture, Gary Hall challenges this assumption.

The book foregrounds the structural inequalities that shape Britain’s #creative and intellectual life, producing culture that is safe, homogeneous, and anti-intellectual. ... Hall shows how the dominance of white, male, middle- and upper-class voices ... is sustained through longstanding funding arrangements and institutional hierarchies.

... Hall proposes redistributing resources away from elite institutions and toward more collective, #commons -oriented, and radically relational alternatives grounded in redistribution, institutional transformation, and epistemic pluriversality.