Professor Mark Banks

Professor of Cultural Economy (Theatre, Film & Television Studies)

Research interests

My interest is in the cultural or creative industries, where I focus on work and employment, culture-economy relations, participation and social justice. Here, I have a particular interest in the visual arts, music and media industries. I also write about cultural theory, cultural value, cities, and popular culture.

Current research is concerned with how the cultural industries and the wider ‘creative economy’ can be made more socially and (‘creatively’) just, and better linked to ecological politics, especially through the ideas of post-growth, well-being or transitional economies.

Prior to my appointment at Glasgow, I was Professor and founding Director of the CAMEo Research Institute for Cultural and Media Economies at the University of Leicester. Before this I was Reader in Sociology at The Open University and also lectured at Manchester Metropolitan University, where I began my career working at the Manchester Institute for Popular Culture in the late 1990s.

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2024

Banks, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3058-847X and Oakley, Kate ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5225-0410 (2024) Cakes and ale: the role of culture in the new municipalism. Cultural Trends, (doi: 10.1080/09548963.2024.2344468) (Early Online Publication)

2023

Banks, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3058-847X (2023) Tinker, Tailor, Driscoll, Squires: Book Fairs and Liberal Bookism in The Russia House and The Frankfurt Kabuff". In: Driscoll, Beth and Squires, Claire (eds.) The Frankfurt Kabuff Critical Edition. Wilfrid Laurier Press, pp. 135-147. ISBN 9781771126007 (doi: 10.51644/9781771126007-023)

Banks, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3058-847X (2023) Critical sociologies of work in the cultural industries: pathways to 'creative justice'. In: Bifulco, Lavinia and Borghi, Vando (eds.) Research Handbook on Public Sociology. Series: Research Handbooks in Sociology. Edward Elgar, pp. 264-278. ISBN 9781800377370 (doi: 10.4337/9781800377387.00028)

Banks, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3058-847X (2023) Cultural work and contributive justice. Journal of Cultural Economy, 16(1), pp. 47-61. (doi: 10.1080/17530350.2022.2058059)

2022

Banks, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3058-847X (2022) The unanticipated pleasures of the future: degrowth, postgrowth and popular cultural economies. New Formations, 2022(107/08), pp. 12-29. (doi: 10.3898/NewF:107-8.01.2022)

Banks, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3058-847X (2022) Technocrats of the imagination: art, technology and the military industrial avant-garde: by John Beck and Ryan Bishop, Durham, Duke University Press, 2020, 229 pp., $25.95 (paperback), ISBN: 9781478006602. International Journal of Cultural Policy, 28(7), pp. 920-923. (doi: 10.1080/10286632.2022.2137156)[Book Review]

Banks, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3058-847X (2022) Re-futuring creative economies: beyond bad dreams and the banal imagination. In: Comunian, Roberta, Faggian, Alessandra, Heinonen, Jama and Wilson, Nick (eds.) A Modern Guide to Creative Economies. Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, pp. 216-227. ISBN 9781789905489 (doi: 10.4337/9781789905496.00024)

2021

Banks, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3058-847X (2021) Book Review: Anna Bull, Class, Control and Classical Music. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 24(2), pp. 628-631. (doi: 10.1177/1367549420929716)[Book Review]

Banks, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3058-847X and O'Connor, Justin (2021) 'A plague upon your howling': art and culture in the viral emergency. Cultural Trends, 30(1), pp. 3-18. (doi: 10.1080/09548963.2020.1827931)

Banks, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3058-847X and O’Connor, Justin (2021) Editorial: Art and culture in the viral emergency. Cultural Trends, 30(1), pp. 1-2. (doi: 10.1080/09548963.2021.1882063)

2020

Serafini, Paula and Banks, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3058-847X (2020) Living precarious lives? Time and temporality in visual arts careers. Culture Unbound, 12(2), pp. 351-372. (doi: 10.3384/cu.2000.1525.20200504a)

Banks, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3058-847X and Serafini, Paula (2020) Towards post-growth creative economies: building sustainable cultural production in Argentina. In: Kiriya, Ilya, Kompatsiaris, Panos and Mylonas, Yannis (eds.) The Industrialization of Creativity and Its Limits: Values, Politics and Lifestyles of Contemporary Cultural Economies. Springer: Cham, pp. 17-29. ISBN 9783030531638 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-53164-5_2)

Banks, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3058-847X (2020) Creative economy, degrowth and aesthetic limitation. In: Oakley, Kate and Banks, Mark (eds.) Cultural Industries and the Environmental Crisis: New Approaches for Policy. Springer: Cham, pp. 11-23. ISBN 9783030493837 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-49384-4_2)

Oakley, Kate ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5225-0410 and Banks, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3058-847X (2020) Cultural industries and environmental crisis: an introduction. In: Oakley, Kate and Banks, Mark (eds.) Cultural Industries and the Environmental Crisis: New Approaches for Policy. Springer: Cham, pp. 1-10. ISBN 9783030493837 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-49384-4_10)

Banks, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3058-847X (2020) The work of culture and C-19. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 23(4), pp. 648-654. (doi: 10.1177/1367549420924687)

2019

Banks, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3058-847X (2019) Precarity, biography, and event: work and time in the cultural industries. Sociological Research Online, 24(4), pp. 541-556. (doi: 10.1177/1360780419844526)

2018

Eikhof, Doris Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2596-4167, Newsinger, Jack, Rudloff, Daniela, Luchinskaya, Daria and Banks, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3058-847X (2018) Workforce Diversity in the UK Screen Sector: Evidence Review. Project Report. University of Leicester, Leicester.

Banks, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3058-847X (2018) Creative economies of tomorrow? Limits to growth and the uncertain future. Cultural Trends, 27(5), pp. 367-380. (doi: 10.1080/09548963.2018.1534720)

2017

Banks, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3058-847X and O'Connor, Justin (2017) Inside the whale (and how to get out of there): moving on from two decades of creative industries research. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 20(6), pp. 637-654. (doi: 10.1177/1367549417733002)

Wood, Helen, Kay, Jilly Boyce and Banks, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3058-847X (2017) The working class, ordinary celebrity, and “illegitimate” cultural work. In: Deery, June and Press, Andrea (eds.) Media and Class: TV, Film, and Digital Culture. Routledge: New York, NY, pp. 117-130. ISBN 9781138229785 (doi: 10.4324/9781315387987-8)

Banks, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3058-847X (2017) Creative Justice: Cultural Industries, Work and Inequality. Rowman & Littlefield International, Ltd.: London. ISBN 9781786601285

Ashton, Heidi and Banks, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3058-847X (2017) Step into the zone: career dancers, cultural work and intensity. In: Jordan, T., McClure, B. and Woodward, K. (eds.) Culture, Identity and Intense Performativity: Being in the Zone. Routledge: Abingdon, pp. 95-111. ISBN 9781138185920

2016

Banks, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3058-847X and Oakley, Kathryn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5225-0410 (2016) The dance goes on forever? Art schools, class and UK higher education. International Journal of Cultural Policy, 22(1), pp. 41-57. (doi: 10.1080/10286632.2015.1101082)

2015

Banks, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3058-847X and Oakley, Kathryn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5225-0410 (2015) UK art workers, class, and the myth of mobility. In: Maxwell, Richard (ed.) The Routledge Companion to Labor and Media. Series: Routledge companions. Routledge: New York, pp. 170-179. ISBN 9780415837446 (doi: 10.4324/9780203404119-14)

Banks, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3058-847X (2015) Valuing Cultural Industries. In: Oakley, Kate and O'Connor, Justin (eds.) The Routledge Companion to the Cultural Industries. Routledge: Abingdon, pp. 35-44. ISBN 9780415706209

2014

Banks, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3058-847X and Toynbee, Jason (2014) Race, consecration and the music outside? The making of the British jazz avant-garde 1968-1973. In: Toynbee, Jason, Tackley, Catherine and Doffman, Mark (eds.) Black British Jazz. Ashgate: Farnham, pp. 91-110. ISBN 9781472417565

Banks, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3058-847X (2014) Being in the zone of cultural work. Culture Unbound, 6, pp. 241-262. (doi: 10.3384/cu.2000.1525.146241)

2013

Banks, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3058-847X (2013) Creative cities, counter-finance and the aesthetics of exchange: Copenhagen’s artmoney project. Cities, 33, pp. 36-42. (doi: 10.1016/j.cities.2012.05.010)

2012

Banks, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3058-847X (2012) MacIntyre, Bourdieu and the practice of jazz. Popular Music, 31(1), pp. 69-86. (doi: 10.1017/s0261143011000468)

2011

Banks, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3058-847X and Milestone, Katie (2011) Individualization, gender and cultural work. Gender, Work and Organization, 18(1), pp. 73-89. (doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0432.2010.00535.x)

Banks, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3058-847X (2011) The colours of money: artmoney as community currency. International Journal of Community Currency Research, 15, pp. 77-81.

2010

Banks, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3058-847X (2010) Craft labour and creative industries. International Journal of Cultural Policy, 16(3), pp. 305-321. (doi: 10.1080/10286630903055885)

Banks, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3058-847X (2010) Autonomy guaranteed? Cultural work and the “Art–Commerce Relation”. Journal for Cultural Research, 14(3), pp. 251-269. (doi: 10.1080/14797581003791487)

2009

Banks, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3058-847X and Hesmondhalgh, David (2009) Looking for work in creative industries policy. International Journal of Cultural Policy, 15(4), pp. 415-430. (doi: 10.1080/10286630902923323)

Banks, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3058-847X and O'Connor, Justin (2009) After the creative industries. International Journal of Cultural Policy, 15(4), pp. 365-373. (doi: 10.1080/10286630902989027)

Banks, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3058-847X (2009) Fit and working again: the instrumental leisure of the creative class. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 41(3), pp. 668-681. (doi: 10.1068/a40333)

2007

Banks, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3058-847X (2007) The Politics of Cultural Work. Palgrave Macmillan: London. ISBN 9780230019218 (doi: 10.1057/9780230288713)

2006

Banks, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3058-847X (2006) Moral economy and cultural work. Sociology, 40(3), pp. 455-472. (doi: 10.1177/0038038506063669)

2005

Banks, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3058-847X (2005) Spaces of (in)security: media and fear of crime in a local context. Crime, Media, Culture, 1(2), pp. 169-187. (doi: 10.1177/1741659005054020)

Bassett, Keith, Smith, Ian, Banks, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3058-847X and O'Connor, Justin (2005) Urban dilemmas of competition and cohesion in cultural policy. In: Buck, Nick, Gordon, Ian, Harding, Alan and Turok, Ivan (eds.) Changing Cities: Rethinking Urban Competitiveness, Cohesion and Governance. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, pp. 132-153. ISBN 9781403906793

2000

Banks, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3058-847X, Lovatt, Andy, O'Connor, Justin and Raffo, Carlo (2000) Risk and trust in the cultural industries. Geoforum, 31(4), pp. 453-464. (doi: 10.1016/s0016-7185(00)00008-7)

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Number of items: 41.

Articles

Banks, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3058-847X (2023) Cultural work and contributive justice. Journal of Cultural Economy, 16(1), pp. 47-61. (doi: 10.1080/17530350.2022.2058059)

Banks, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3058-847X (2020) The work of culture and C-19. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 23(4), pp. 648-654. (doi: 10.1177/1367549420924687)

Banks, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3058-847X (2014) Being in the zone of cultural work. Culture Unbound, 6, pp. 241-262. (doi: 10.3384/cu.2000.1525.146241)

Banks, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3058-847X (2012) MacIntyre, Bourdieu and the practice of jazz. Popular Music, 31(1), pp. 69-86. (doi: 10.1017/s0261143011000468)

Banks, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3058-847X (2011) The colours of money: artmoney as community currency. International Journal of Community Currency Research, 15, pp. 77-81.

Banks, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3058-847X (2010) Craft labour and creative industries. International Journal of Cultural Policy, 16(3), pp. 305-321. (doi: 10.1080/10286630903055885)

Banks, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3058-847X (2006) Moral economy and cultural work. Sociology, 40(3), pp. 455-472. (doi: 10.1177/0038038506063669)

Books

Banks, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3058-847X (2017) Creative Justice: Cultural Industries, Work and Inequality. Rowman & Littlefield International, Ltd.: London. ISBN 9781786601285

Banks, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3058-847X (2007) The Politics of Cultural Work. Palgrave Macmillan: London. ISBN 9780230019218 (doi: 10.1057/9780230288713)

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Grants

Recent awards:

2019 Creativity and Innovation in Context; Midlands Innovation Priority Fund (CO-I)
2018 It Takes a Region to Raise an Artist; AHRC Creative Economy Engagement Fellowship (PI)
2018 Doubling Disability; Creative Diversity Network (CO-I)
2017 Phoenix Digital Impact; AHRC Creative Economy Engagement Fellowship (PI)
2016 Diversity Meta-Analysis; British Film Institute (CO-I)
2013 The Values of Cultural Work; AHRC Cultural Value Project (PI)
2009 What is Black British Jazz? ; AHRC Beyond Text Programme (CO-I)

Supervision

I would welcome students who are interested in researching any aspect of the cultural or creative industries, or cultural and creative economy policy, especially around music, the visual arts, and cultural regeneration. Topics that focus on political, cultural and environmental theory as applied to the cultural industries are similarly encouraged. Projects on cities, popular culture and social change are also welcomed. If in doubt - or to discuss your ideas further – just drop me a line.

Current and previous topics supervised include:

Histories and Futures of UK Cultural Democracy
Gender and Costume Labour in the Screen Industries
Disability, Work and Cultural Economies
Culture, Leisure and Austerity
Cultural Work in Colombian Television
Cultural Industries Policy in Three Chinese Cities

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Teaching

MSc Creative Industries and Cultural Policy

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Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS)
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
Visiting Professor, Commercial Music, University of Westminster (2015-18)
Visiting Fellow ASCIS, University of Norrkoping (2006)

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