About AGAINST VALUE
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This website hosts material connected to the AHRC funded Against Value project. The AHRC critical review was composed by Sam Ladkin, University of Sheffield. The first publication to come out of the project is Against Value in the Arts and Education (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016). The collection was edited by Sam Ladkin (University of Sheffield), Bob McKay (University of Sheffield) and Emile Bojesen (University of Winchester).
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Against Value began at the University of Sheffield in 2012 as a response to the defences that were proliferating and which sought to defend the arts, humanities and education. Against Value may well love all three such phenomena, but holds little truck with many of the defences that have been offered. Against Value therefore sought an alternative, and more generally sought to discern the kinds of work the discourse of “value” carries out in our culture and society more generally. What indeed, is the value of value? What values are held or hidden within the rhetoric of value? What damage does a concentration on value cause?
The project was generously funded with a grant from the AHRC as part of their Cultural Value Project. The first publication that comes out of this activity is Against Value in the Arts and Education, published by Rowman & Littlefield (part of their Disruptions series) in Spring 2016. Research for a short monograph by Sam Ladkin continues.
If you wish to make contact on any aspect of this project, please do feel free to contact me on s.ladkin (at) sheffield.ac.uk |