scholarly journals Cultural Diplomacy and Co-operation in ASEAN: The Role of Arts and Culture Festivals

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-29
Author(s):  
David Ocón
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Diplomacy ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Local Economy ◽  
Traditional Role ◽  
Comprehensive Review ◽  
Operation Mechanism ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Political Tension ◽  
Arts And Culture

Summary Beyond their traditional role as entertainment, form of expression and meeting spaces within local communities, arts and culture festivals can perform various functions. They can serve as showcases of artistic pride, signal openness towards cultural diversity, support the local economy, contribute to reducing political tension and provide grounds to consolidate international relationships. On occasion, such festivals function as tools to support the vision of a multilateral co-operation institution, as is the case of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Through a comprehensive review of the arts and culture festivals curated in ASEAN, this article investigates the festivals’ ulterior motivations. A range of economic, political, diplomatic, and organisational logics explain the evolution of such festivals during the last fifty years. The article concludes that arts and culture festivals have remained a compelling and instrumental co-operation mechanism in ASEAN, but formats and approaches need substantial revision.

Assessing the Role of the Arts and Cultural Industries in a Local Economy

2000 ◽  
Vol 32 (8) ◽  
pp. 1391-1408 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Bryan ◽  
Steve Hill ◽  
Max Munday ◽  
Annette Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Local Economy ◽  
Cultural Industries ◽  
The Arts

Representing Decline: The Role of the Arts in Framing Discourses of Deindustrialisation

2001 ◽  
Vol 100 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah Stevenson ◽  
Georgia Paton
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
Place Identity ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Expressive Arts ◽  
Local Identity ◽  
The Arts ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Community Solidarity ◽  
Local Reactions

Deindustrialising cities worldwide are facing considerable social and economic difficulties, which challenge local identity and the bases of community solidarity. Historically, the expressive arts have provided incisive commentaries on such change; however, deindustrialisation strategies are now being developed that include cultural programs as a way of minimising negative local reactions. There has been little academic analysis of this emerging arts/industry nexus or its relationship to local communities and arts agendas. In 1999. BHP closed its steelworks in the New South Wales city of Newcastle. Central to the process of closure was the Ribbons of Steel festival, funded in part by the Australia Council and held on the BHP site. This paper examines Ribbons of Steel to explore the role it played in framing discourses of closure and city reimaging. The paper also illuminates the power relations underpinning the event, providing insights into the shifting relationship between industry, creative expression and place identity.

scholarly journals PARADIGMA PENDIDIKAN SENI DI ERA GLOBALISASI BERBASIS WACANA

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-56
Author(s):  
Arya Pageh Wibawa
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Arts Education ◽  
Local Society ◽  
Cultural Conditions ◽  
Complete Knowledge ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Arts And Culture ◽  
The Future ◽  
Arts Educators

The paradigm of the arts education in the future must be able to apply various approaches where learners can cultivate their views and tolerant attitude towards the cultural diversity in Indonesia. The arts education is expected to be a compulsory course in universities so that the students have sensitive, aesthetic, creative and innovative attitude as well as adaptive character to any change and good ethics in expressing their creativities. It is not just an education generated only for the sake of art competition but must become a daily necessity. In facing the globalization phenomenon, the arts education is made to utilize multicultural approach which can be accepted by various circles of society. The arts educa- tion with a multicultural approach should have flexibility and rely on the ability of the learners and the socio-cultural conditions of the local society. The role of the arts educators is expected to not only pos- sess the local artistic knowledge, but also the knowledge about other regional arts so that in this way the students obtain complete knowledge of arts and culture as well as fostering the sense of tolerance with the diversity.

Linking tourism and art in Canada's eastern Arctic: the case of Cape Dorset

Polar Record ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 31 (176) ◽  
pp. 25-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Milne ◽  
S. Ward ◽  
G. Wenzel
Keyword(s):  
Interest Groups ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Local Economy ◽  
Baffin Island ◽  
Resident Attitudes ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Business Survey ◽  
The Government

ABSTRACTThe Inuit of Canada's eastern Arctic are increasingly turning to tourism as a source of much-needed income and employment. The government of the Northwest Territories, in conjunction with local communities, is attempting to develop a ‘sustainable’ form of tourism in the region, with an emphasis on maximizing local economic linkages while minimizing negative socio-cultural and environmental impacts. One key strategy for increasing the ‘downstream’ benefits of visitor expenditure has been an attempt to forge better links between tourism and the region's arts sector. This paper examines some of the key issues and problems that face the implementation of such a strategy in the Baffin Island hamlet of Cape Dorset. It commences with a profile of the community, its arts sector, and its nascent tourism industry. It then presents findings from a household/business survey designed to gauge resident attitudes towards tourism and provide information on the links that exist between the industry and the arts sector. The data reveal that while residents are supportive of further tourism development there is considerable disagreement among different interest groups about the amount of interaction that should occur between tourism and the local arts sector. In conclusion, the paper outlines some approaches that may allow the linkages between these two important components of the local economy to be strengthened.

My Taxes Paid for That?! or Why the Past Is Prologue for Public Arts Funding

2013 ◽  
Vol 46 (01) ◽  
pp. 74-80
Author(s):  
Dana Michael Harsell
Keyword(s):  
Public Funding ◽  
The United States ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
Arts Funding ◽  
Fiscal Discipline ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Arts And Culture ◽  
Balanced Budgets

AbstractRecent efforts to cut public funding for the arts and culture sectors in the United States are couched in the need for balanced budgets and fiscal discipline. Lawmakers who support cuts question whether artistic pursuits such as “cowboy poetry” or artistic endeavors that offend or shock some viewers are an appropriate use of public monies in a depressed economy. While the current debate is grounded in a need for balanced budgets and reduced deficits, long-standing unresolved legacies fragment arts and culture policy and leave arts and culture funding vulnerable to additional cuts. The normative implications for the role of the arts and culture sectors in a democratic society need to be considered.

scholarly journals Development of Agritourism in the Light of Economics: Case Studies of Italy and Poland

2018 ◽  
Vol 18(33) (1) ◽  
pp. 143-148
Author(s):  
Harshavardhan Kummitha ◽  
Raqif Huseynov ◽  
Michał Wojtaszek
Keyword(s):  
Household Income ◽  
Food Service ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Local Economy ◽  
Economic Prosperity ◽  
Average Income ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
The Relationship

Recreational activities pertaining to farmlands are receiving increased attention from both research and practice. One of the major reasons for this heightened importance attributed to farmland tourism is due partly to its potential to advance the local economy and to the benefits it brings for farmers and visitors. Thus, analyzing the role of agritourism in advancing socio-economic prosperity is of pivotal importance. With this background, the paper discusses the economic benefits of agritourism. The results reported in the paper are related to organizations located in Poland and Italy. Agritourism can bring several economic benefits in the countries and regions. What is interesting, the average income from agritourism is about one-third of the overall household income of farmers. Moreover, food service is a crucial factor in the success of agritourism as it brings extra money to farmers. It shows the importance of the relationship between the income obtained from agritourism activities and the benefits local communities gain by engaging in multiple tourism promotion activities.

Introduction: Emotion, History and the Arts

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin Sullivan ◽  
Marie Louise Herzfeld-Schild
Keyword(s):  
Historical Change ◽  
Carson Mccullers ◽  
Emotional Life ◽  
Review Section ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
War Correspondents ◽  
History Of ◽  
Johan Huizinga

This introduction surveys the rise of the history of emotions as a field and the role of the arts in such developments. Reflecting on the foundational role of the arts in the early emotion-oriented histories of Johan Huizinga and Jacob Burkhardt, as well as the concerns about methodological impressionism that have sometimes arisen in response to such studies, the introduction considers how intensive engagements with the arts can open up new insights into past emotions while still being historically and theoretically rigorous. Drawing on a wide range of emotionally charged art works from different times and places—including the novels of Carson McCullers and Harriet Beecher-Stowe, the private poetry of neo-Confucian Chinese civil servants, the photojournalism of twentieth-century war correspondents, and music from Igor Stravinsky to the Beatles—the introduction proposes five ways in which art in all its forms contributes to emotional life and consequently to emotional histories: first, by incubating deep emotional experiences that contribute to formations of identity; second, by acting as a place for the expression of private or deviant emotions; third, by functioning as a barometer of wider cultural and attitudinal change; fourth, by serving as an engine of momentous historical change; and fifth, by working as a tool for emotional connection across communities, both within specific time periods but also across them. The introduction finishes by outlining how the special issue's five articles and review section address each of these categories, while also illustrating new methodological possibilities for the field.

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