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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