Cultural policies for sustainable development: four strategic paths

Duxbury, Nancy; Kangas, Anita; Beukelaer, Christiaan De

doi:10.1080/10286632.2017.1280789

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“…Shan argued that the lack of museum audience research has prevented museum managers from understanding the public demand for museums and improving museum management [21]. Fu and colleagues demonstrated that the current national public cultural investment is facing diminishing marginal efficiency, mainly due to the lack of technical management and the congestion of resource allocation, which has led to sustainable development issues, such as imbalances between supply and demand [28][29][30][31][32][33]. Studying cultural participation behavioral patterns is conducive to optimizing public cultural policies aimed at promoting sustainable cultural development [32,33], and can guide national cultural policies based on the principle of the cultural exception.…”

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The Behavioral Pattern of Chinese Public Cultural Participation in Museums

Wang

2020

Sustainability

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Studying the cultural participation model of the public and its influencing factors is important for the sustainable development of regional culture. Therefore, in this study, we determined which factors influence the cultural participation of the Chinese public. Firstly, we extracted the key features of the motivation and timing for a museum visit with multiple correspondence analysis (MCA), and explored the relationship of the features of different motivations with the frequency and duration of the public's visits to the museum. Secondly, we determined the monotonicity of the influence of ordinal variables on cultural participation behavior and identified the mechanism through which the independent variable influences public cultural participation with categorical regression (CATREG). Finally, we analyzed the research data from the museum audience survey in the Hubei Provincial Museum and a national public culture participation survey. We found that education, occupation, academic discipline, income, distance, age, and sex affect the public's museum participation. This indicates that to guarantee the public's cultural rights and promote sustainable development, education, planning, and other aspects must be coordinated in cultural management to increase public cultural participation, rather than removing the economic threshold for public cultural participation through public finances alone.Sustainability 2020, 12, 2890 2 of 22 have a negative impact [5]. Ateca-Amestoy and Prieto-Rodriguez also found that sex influences the behavioral pattern of the public visiting museums, as do occupation and distance [6]. Kraaykamp et al. proved that people who live in urban centers visit museums more often than those who live in other areas, and people who spend more time in museums are less likely to visit again [7]. Brida et al. studied the factors and mechanisms influencing public museum visits from the perspective of visiting motivation, and found that cultural capital, occupation, sex, marriage, economic income, spatial relationship, and other factors all have an impact on the participants' frequency of visiting museums [8]. Van Hek and Kraaykamp studied how cultural preferences are transferred across generations [9], and Willekens et al. focused on the influence of the father and mother's educational level on teenagers' cultural participation motivation [10]. All of these studies are centered around cultural participation and study how the public's cultural participation behavior is affected.Although existing research has provided a wealth of perspectives on public cultural participation behaviors, we found that the existing research on cultural participation mainly focuses on whether the public participates in cultural activities and services, and few scholars have examined the frequency of public cultural participation [7,11]. However, cultural participation is a behavioral activity characterized by multidimensional information [12], including whether the public participates and the frequency of participation as wel...

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“…Indeed, culture has developed an increasingly visible position within the sustainability agenda, being situated as an additional pillar of development (Hawkes, 2001), and to being placed as "not just the fourth pillar but the central pillar" around which stand other aspects of transformative development (UNESCO / UNDP, 2013). Culture has, for its advocates at least, become a key driver and enabler of both human and sustainable development discourse and policy, explicitly in the approach to developing and delivering the broad areas of UN Sustainable Development Goals (Wiktor-Mach, 2018, Duxbury, Kangas & De Beukelaer, 2017. The notion of 'cultural development' itselfaside from the role of culture "in" developmentis also increasingly understood in terms of providing effective ways of 'balancing cultural and economic policy objectives' (Duxbury, Kangas & De Beukelaer, 2017: 217).…”

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“…The notion of 'cultural development' itselfaside from the role of culture "in" developmentis also increasingly understood in terms of providing effective ways of 'balancing cultural and economic policy objectives' (Duxbury, Kangas & De Beukelaer, 2017: 217). This history of 'connection' between culture and development is problematic for some (de Beukelaer, 2015) particularly given the flexibility of the terms (Wiktor-Mach, 2018) and the discrepancies in concepts and frameworks (Duxbury, Kangas & De Beukelaer, 2017). This conceptual fluidity has also been seen in discussions of the terminology and definitions of the cultural and creative industries, and furthermore their implicit and explicit valueframings (Gross and Wilson, 2018, Hewison, 2014, Garnham, 2005, Flew, 2010.…”

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“…This conceptual fluidity has also been seen in discussions of the terminology and definitions of the cultural and creative industries, and furthermore their implicit and explicit valueframings (Gross and Wilson, 2018, Hewison, 2014, Garnham, 2005, Flew, 2010. Arguments around the instrumental uses of culture notwithstanding Bennett, 2008, Belfiore, 2012), the integration of culture within the development agenda pushes debates beyond established cultural policy approaches, focused on consistency of trade and economic growth (which emerged as an impact of World Trade Organisation free trade agreements and market-led policy approaches: Pratt 2015, Duxbury, Kangas & De Beukelaer, 2017. Further, it opens up the possibility of other impacts and benefits of cultural policy and related activities.…”

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“…This connects to the second area of consideration, that of the values driving the policy making agenda, which are frequently in tension with the 'values as outcomes' of that policy and activity. This is hugely complex and contested but broader value drivers of policy that extend beyond the economic are frequently referenced (Wiktor-Mach, 2018, Duxbury, Kangas & De Beukelaer, 2017, because 'it is the richness of people's lives, not the richness of economies that ultimately is valuable to people' (UNDP, 2016: 25). The concept of value and richness in lived experience highlights the third area of tension explored in this article, which sits between the national (and indeed international) approaches to policymaking and the locally situated and experienced realities of both culture and development.…”

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Cultural policies for sustainable development: four strategic paths

Cited by 103 publications

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