2020
DOI: 10.31273/lgd.2019.2401
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Abstract: Since its adoption in 2005, the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions has become a central reference point for cultural policy around the world. However, there remains little scholarly scrutiny of how effectively this instrument frames the international policy agenda around culture, economy and development under contemporary conditions of rapid, and contested, global transformation. Through a critical review of the core content of the Convention, and some of… Show more

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“…The question is where does cultural policy fit? Neither Raworth nor Foundational Economy (or GND theories [11]) foreground or mention art or culture (though libraries make a brief appearance), and indeed culture was left out from the Sustainable Development Goals, even after intense lobbying from UNESCO (Garner and O'Connor, 2019). If we are to insert culture into a GND, into the foundational economy, we would have to first acknowledge how far it has been removed from our conceptions of social citizenship, reduced to a consumer good, the lack of which is simply an index of economic impoverishment.…”
Section: The Raft Of the Medusamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The question is where does cultural policy fit? Neither Raworth nor Foundational Economy (or GND theories [11]) foreground or mention art or culture (though libraries make a brief appearance), and indeed culture was left out from the Sustainable Development Goals, even after intense lobbying from UNESCO (Garner and O'Connor, 2019). If we are to insert culture into a GND, into the foundational economy, we would have to first acknowledge how far it has been removed from our conceptions of social citizenship, reduced to a consumer good, the lack of which is simply an index of economic impoverishment.…”
Section: The Raft Of the Medusamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It culminated in the United Nations' Decade of Culture and Development 1988-98, and had an crucial impact on the 2005 Convention of the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions. Culture here was seen as a means of effectively engaging and addressing local needs, grounded in local cultural understandings and values rather than top-down development.But it also held that a thriving cultural life would be its true goal, the 'soul of development' .41 This notion of culture was effectively sidelined as UNESCO adopted the 'creative economy' perspective -culture as an engine of economic development 42. As we enter the interregnum, ideas of cultural rights, founded on version of the capability approach -not just the formal right but the substantive means to make effective choices and act upon them -have resurfaced.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…UNESCO's 2005 Convention, which sought to promote global cultural diversity through enshrining the right of member states to treat culture as a non-commodity -the 'exception culturelle'can be seen as a late attempt to seize the utopian moment that floated in the space between one hegemonic order and the new. The 2005 Convention has been turned de facto into a vehicle to promote the cultural economy as a modern path to development (Garner & O'Connor, 2019).…”
Section: 'Creative Cities' Discourse -Towards Local Plusmentioning
confidence: 99%