UNESCO Cultural Policies 1966–1972 –the Founding Years of ‘New Cultural Policy’

Vestheim, Geir

doi:10.18261/issn2000-8325-2019-01-10

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“…They feed into social indicator systems, which are deployed to measure and project growth and plan investments and social policies, but they are also part of cultural politics themselves, used to communicate organisational achievements internationally and across institutional sectors (MacDowall et al 2015). The first series of Unesco reports on world cultural policies represented a patchwork and uneven attempt at such a comparison (Vestheim 2019;Rindzevičiūtė 2008). Since then, area scholars have been interested in mapping the big picture, often charted through quantitative data and made in the spirit of Cold War research that sought to 'know their enemy' (Engerman 2009) as well as to maintain power relations in a decolonising world (Slobodian 2018;Schmelzer 2016).…”

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Transforming cultural policy in Eastern Europe: the endless frontier

Rindzevičiūtė

2021

International Journal of Cultural Policy

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The key premise for this special issue is that Eastern Europe is not what it used to be: Cold War notions of the fundamental distinction between East and West do not hold anymore as analytical concepts indicating separate political, social and cultural systems. Examining key developments in state cultural policies in selected East European countries, the articles in this special issue respond to the call to de-orientalise East European studies by analysing the complexity of post-communist evolutionary pathways as they diverge into hybrid autocratic regimes and consolidated (neo)liberal democracies. Sharing the conceptual framework of new institutionalist approach to social change, the contributions in this special issue present detailed analyses of empirical case studies contextualising them in the local historiography of cultural policy studies.1 This definition of cultural policy has informed the rationale for The International Journal of Cultural Policy: 'Cultural policy is understood as the promotion or disparagement of particular cultural practices and values. This conception of cultural policy encompasses a broad view of both 'culture' and 'policy'. On the one hand, 'culture' may be taken to refer to systems or clusters of attitudes, values and behaviours, along with the symbolic practices that maintain or support them. On the other, it may refer more narrowly to products of the arts, heritage and creative and media industries. 'Policy' may be considered as programmatic sets of ideas or plans of action pursued by any agency' (IJCP n.d.

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Section: Opening the Black Box Of The Numbers And Processmentioning

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Transforming cultural policy in Eastern Europe: the endless frontier

Rindzevičiūtė

2021

International Journal of Cultural Policy

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Pursuing decentralisation: regional cultural policies in Finland and Sweden

Renko

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Kangas

et al. 2021

International Journal of Cultural Policy

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In both Finland and Sweden, decentralisation has traditionally been an essential cultural policy aim. This article explores how, by pursuing decentralisation, the regional jurisdictions have been presented with more possibilities to fulfil their purposes and in this way, gain legitimacy in cultural policy. Based on the analysis of political, legal, and administrative documents, three main periods of regional decentralisation in cultural policies are identified: regions as vehicles of welfare policy, regionalisation, and competitive regions. In both countries, national governments have promoted the regional level's agency, and in doing so, potential institutional change in cultural policy. However, the increase of the regional level's role has been limited by the countries' strongly institutionalised cultural policy systems.

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Is ‘Revive’ a ‘game changer’ or more of the same? Whose needs are addressed in Australia’s new cultural policy and what will change?

Caust

2024

International Journal of Cultural Policy

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UNESCO Cultural Policies 1966–1972 –the Founding Years of ‘New Cultural Policy’

Abstract: Nordic and international cultural policies, cultural institutions and their sociological and historical functions, cultural policy and democracy. Has published books and research articles about these issues, in Nordic and English.

Cited by 5 publications

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Transforming cultural policy in Eastern Europe: the endless frontier

Transforming cultural policy in Eastern Europe: the endless frontier

Pursuing decentralisation: regional cultural policies in Finland and Sweden

Is ‘Revive’ a ‘game changer’ or more of the same? Whose needs are addressed in Australia’s new cultural policy and what will change?

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