The trojan horse : the growth of commercial sponsorship / by Deborah Philips and Garry Whannel.

By:

Whannel, Garry

Contributor(s):

Philips, Deborah, 1954-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.Description: 278 pages ; 25 cmISBN:

9781472507389

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

659.285 23 WH TR

LOC classification:

HD59.6.G7 W43 2013

Contents:

The moment of 1945 and its legacy -- A culture of consensus: the arts from 1945 -- Pay up and play the game: sport and sponsorship -- Neo-liberalism and New Labour: from Thatcher to Blair -- Culture and enterprise: the arts from 1979 -- One amazing day... : the Millennium Dome -- Education, education, education -- Safe in their hands: health and the market -- All in it together?

Summary: The Trojan Horse traces the growth of commercial sponsorship in the public sphere since the 1960s, its growing importance for the arts since 1980 and its spread into areas such as education and health. The authors' central argument is that the image of sponsorship as corporate benevolence has served to routinize and legitimate the presence of commerce within the public sector. The central metaphor is of such sponsorship as a Trojan Horse helping to facilitate the hollowing out of the public sector by private agencies and private finance. The authors place the study in the context of the more general colonization of the state by private capital and the challenge posed to the dominance of neo-liberal economics by the recent global financial crisis. After considering the passage from patronage to sponsorship and outlining the context of the post-war public sector since 1945, it analyses sponsorship in relation to Thatcherism, enterprise culture and the restructuring of public provision during the 1980s. It goes on to examine the New Labour years, and the ways in which sponsorship has paved the way for the increased use of private-public partnerships and private finance initiatives within the public sector in the UK.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-268) and index.

The Trojan Horse traces the growth of commercial sponsorship in the public sphere since the 1960s, its growing importance for the arts since 1980 and its spread into areas such as education and health. The authors' central argument is that the image of sponsorship as corporate benevolence has served to routinize and legitimate the presence of commerce within the public sector. The central metaphor is of such sponsorship as a Trojan Horse helping to facilitate the hollowing out of the public sector by private agencies and private finance.

The authors place the study in the context of the more general colonization of the state by private capital and the challenge posed to the dominance of neo-liberal economics by the recent global financial crisis. After considering the passage from patronage to sponsorship and outlining the context of the post-war public sector since 1945, it analyses sponsorship in relation to Thatcherism, enterprise culture and the restructuring of public provision during the 1980s. It goes on to examine the New Labour years, and the ways in which sponsorship has paved the way for the increased use of private-public partnerships and private finance initiatives within the public sector in the UK.

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https://www.amazon.com/Trojan-Horse-Growth-Commercial-Sponsorship-dp-147250738X/dp/147250738X/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1617517965

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