James Kennell's presentation 'symbolic violence by the seaside' given at the 2008 ATLAS conference in Brighton, UK

1. Symbolic violence by the sea-side A study of cultural regeneration in Folkestone, UK James Kennell [email_address]

2. Cultural regeneration by the seaside

4. Folkestone, Kent

5. Folkestone

7. The creative quarter

13. All my friends are artists which is really rare because we’re in Folkestone and how can that be? I don’t know if people see them [strange cargo] as art….it would be so nice if that how it was in general rather than people thinking its tricky…not for them Artist Artist

14. We’ve got a lot of charity shops, a lot of pounds shops, what does that tell us about the people? They’re not going to go out and suddenly start buying the art, they will listen to a jazz band, they will watch a bit of street entertainment and things like that [the arts are] always looked upon as being elitist and high falluting and I think there’s still a lot to be done to break down those barriers Local Authority officer Councillor

18. James Kennell Senior Lecturer in Tourism and Regeneration University of Greenwich [email_address] +44 (0)20 8331 9053 http://www.gre.ac.uk/schools/business/departments/mktg/tourism-management James Kennell [email_address]