scholarly journals THE NEED TO REVIEW CULTURAL POLICIES IN BULGARIA

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 149-155
Author(s):  
Tsvetomira Ivanova ◽  
Vesela Kazashka
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
National Level ◽  
Cultural Policies ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Social ◽  
Intercultural Exchange ◽  
Funding Mechanisms ◽  
Good Set

Cultural policy guarantees freedom of expression, creates conditions for equal participation in the cultural life of the country, preserves and promotes the culture of different ethnic groups and religions, supports education, intercultural exchange and expands intercultural communication. In this context, the influence of European cultural policies on national ones is of particular importance for the development of art and the preservation of cultural values. The choice of priorities, goals and tasks, a good set of measures, funding mechanisms, accessibility to citizens, their recognition by society are of particular importance and favors the development of culture. In the context of the social isolation caused by COVID-19, cultural policies need to be updated. This report is based on an analysis of statistics relating to the expenditure on culture and the arts at the European and national level, a comparative analysis of European cultural policies and their impact on national ones. The obtained results outline guidelines for the development of cultural policies at the regional level and can be a basis for practical application and further research in this direction.

Towards the social prescription of the arts: 
The arts in health and 
social care in Malta

2021 ◽  
Vol 00 (00) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Valerie Visanich ◽  
Toni Attard
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Community Based ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Social ◽  
Health And Social Care ◽  
Arts In Health

Recently, the notion of arts as therapy has been of growing interest to sociologists. The aim of this article is to evaluate community-based arts funded projects in terms of their priorities and effectiveness and discuss possibilities for enabling Arts on Prescription schemes in Malta. Thematically, this article explores discourse on the potential of the arts on promoting well-being. Methodologically, this article draws on primary data collected from focus groups, interviews and an online survey with project leaders and artists of funded arts projects targeting mental health, disability or old age. Specifically, this research evaluates all national funded community-based arts projects in Malta between 2014 to 2018 under a national scheme of the President’s Award for Creativity fund, managed by the national Arts Council Malta. Analysis of this data was used to inform the new national cultural policy on the implantation of the Arts on Prescription scheme in Malta.

scholarly journals Orthodox culture in a secular state: Legal and political instruments of educational and cultural policies in Serbia

2015 ◽  
pp. 711-724
Author(s):  
Vesna Djukic ◽  
Biljana Djukic
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Basic Research ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Human Capabilities ◽  
Orthodox Christian ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Secular State

The topic of the paper is the relationship of the secular state towards the Orthodox culture in Serbia during the 20th and 21st centuries. Basic research problem is a usability of cultural values of Orthodoxy in contemporary Serbia after a period of antireligious propaganda in Yugoslavia. Therefore, the research is focused on the question of whether secular state legal and political instruments encourage or limit the protection, preservation, and the inclusion of Orthodox culture in the cultural life of the majority of the Serbian people on the territory of Serbia. Basic methods of empirical research is the media archeology applied in order to establish how much relevant data are available on-line. The survey results show a lack of participatory mechanisms of decision making on key issues of cultural life and cultural development, which is reduced to the secular dimension of culture. Therefore, the contemporary cultural policy mainly relates to the protection and preservation of the Orthodox cultural heritage, while in the arts, creativity and in?novation, there are no systemic solutions that encourage generic potential of Orthodox culture and influence the development of human capabilities in accordance with the Orthodox Christian values.

scholarly journals Toward Cultural Policy Studies on Mobility: Reflections on a Study of the Hong Kong Working Holiday Scheme

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Louis Ho
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
International Trade ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Policy Studies ◽  
Arts Policy ◽  
Cultural Policies ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Labour Policy ◽  
Cultural Experiences

Cultural policy is predominantly, and practically, considered the sum of a government’s activities with respect to the arts, humanities and heritage. Thus, cultural policy encompasses a much broader range of activities than was traditionally associated with an arts policy. Critical cultural policy studies, then, sees a distinction between ‘explicit’ cultural policies that are manifestly labelled as ‘cultural’, and ‘implicit’ cultural policies that are not labelled as such, but that work to shape cultural experiences. This article considers this explicit/implicit cultural policy distinction through John Urry’s idea of ‘social as mobility’, suggesting that some public policies regarding mobility (such as immigration, international trade and labour policy) have led to specific cultural consequences and therefore qualify as implicit cultural policy. Using Hong Kong’s working holiday scheme as a case study, this article explores how an economic policy on temporary immigrant labour involves a deliberate cultural agenda as well as ‘unintentional’ cultural consequences and problematises the fact that cultural policy studies are largely framed by the idea of ‘social as society’.

scholarly journals Productive Nation? Museums, Cultural Policy and Australia’s Productivity Narrative

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian McShane
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Culturally Diverse ◽  
Cultural Pluralism ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
First Century ◽  
Policy Agenda ◽  
Creative Activity ◽  
Cultural Policies ◽  
Australian Museum ◽  
The Arts

This article traces the emergence of productivity as a central theme in Australia’s national cultural policy, and discusses some implications of this development for the Australian museum sector. The analysis focuses on two texts – Australia’s two national cultural policies, Creative Nation (1994) and Creative Australia (2013) – to highlight changing policy rhetorics through which cultural heritage and cultural pluralism lose traction, and productivity, innovation and creativity find favour. The article argues that the government’s concern to boost sources of economic growth in twenty-first century Australia focus cultural policy on the arts and creative industries, seen as the locus of innovation and the wellspring of creative activity. The article argues against this narrow construction of productivity and its sources, showing why museums are important contributors to a productivity policy agenda in a culturally diverse and globalized society. Key words: cultural policy, Australia, creative industries, productivity, diversity

Cultural Industry or Social Problem? The Case of Australian Live Music

2002 ◽  
Vol 102 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shane Homan
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Cultural Practice ◽  
Government Support ◽  
Cultural Industry ◽  
Live Performance ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Live Music ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of

The live music pub and club scene has historically been regarded as the source of a distinctively Australian rock/jazz culture, and the basis for global recording success. This paper examines the history of live venue practices as a case study of a local cultural industry that often existed outside of traditional policy structures and meanings of the arts industries. Confronted with a loss of performance opportunities for local musicians, it is argued that traditional cultural policy mechanisms and platforms used for cultural nationalist outcomes are no longer relevant. Rather, policy intervention must engage with administrative obstacles to live creativity, specifically the series of local regulations that have diminished the viability of live venues. The decline of the rock/jazz pub continues in the face of current federal government support for touring musicians. A closer inspection of the local administration of cultural practice remains the best means of understanding the devaluation of the social and industrial value of live performance.

Cultural Policies of the Chávez Government

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sujatha Fernandes
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Production ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Alternative Conceptions ◽  
Cultural Activity ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Cultural Policies ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Cultural Movements ◽  
Hugo Chavez

The cultural policies of the left-wing government of Hugo Chávez in Venezuela in the new millennium saw a shift back to funding and patronage of the arts after years of defunding and commodification of cultural production. However, despite leading to a renaissance of cultural activity, Chavista cultural policy also retained a modernist rationality that treated cultural production as objects to be classified and quantified. Official cultural policy in Venezuela has historically developed alongside popular-cultural formations that draw on alternative conceptions of culture that stem from everyday life. The official and the everyday have developed in tandem and, sometimes, at cross-purposes. Many scholars look to policies and states as the producers of change, but it is at the level of the everyday that we can see the emerging possibilities that define cultural movements in search of social change.

Governing Culture, Producing Modern Citizens

2021 ◽  
pp. 90-119
Author(s):  
Banu Karaca
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Policy ◽  
The State ◽  
Turkish Republic ◽  
Art And Politics ◽  
Cultural Policies ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Greater Good ◽  
Administrative Units ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Relationship

Chapter 3 shows how ideas of art as a greater good have been translated into Turkish and German cultural policies. It begins with a general overview of cultural policy as a domain of statecraft rooted in modernist notions of aesthetic education as essential for modern personhood and then turns to the fundamental contradictions that characterize the interlocution of art and administration. It revisits and retells major debates and turning points in Turkish and German arts policies of the twentieth century by examining forgotten episodes of this history that allow for re-evaluating the present. These include the heated discussions on the relationship between art and politics in the early Turkish republic that resulted in a constant reshuffling of the administrative units in charge of the arts, and the fact that engagements abroad, including arts initiatives in the Ottoman Empire, were formative for Imperial Germany’s domestic cultural policy. Analyzing the tension between art as a supposedly functionless good and the many ways in which the state mobilizes different understandings of art for its own purposes, the chapter shows how the critical potential of art always also presents a risk that the state needs to contend with.

Wild and banal: the value of the arts as commons

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-121
Author(s):  
Katya Johanson
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Urban Communities ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Public Places ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Cultural Events ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Interests ◽  
The Commons

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify the value of the arts play in public spaces in replicating a contemporary commons. Design/methodology/approach – The study is an exploratory investigation which uses a case study of cultural events in public parks – the Vancouver Parks Board’s fieldhouse residency program (2012-2015). The study uses content analysis of the social media sites created for these projects to identify how the sites and the cultural events were valued by stakeholders and participants. Findings – The paper finds that, in combination, the park events and the social media discussion of them function as a form of the commons, in which new urban communities are formed or defined around specific common social interests. Research limitations/implications – The paper finds that, in combination, the park events and the reflective engagement prompted by the social media discussion of them function as a form of the commons, in which new urban communities are formed or defined around specific common social interests. Practical implications – It is anticipated that cultural programs will increasingly interact with common public places. Social implications – The study supports the increased use of and recognition of public places as culturally significant. Originality/value – The study aims to encourage the expansion of arts and cultural policy and programs to incorporate common public places.

scholarly journals Sustainability and Sustainability Marketing in Competing for the Title of European Capital of Culture

Organizacija ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valentina Burksiene ◽  
Jaroslav Dvorak ◽  
Gabriele Burbulyte-Tsiskarishvili
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Marketing Plan ◽  
European Capital Of Culture ◽  
Content Analysis Method ◽  
The Social ◽  
Values And Beliefs ◽  
Attribute Model

AbstractBackground and Purpose: An analysis of the dimension of sustainability in the context of competing for the title of the European Capital of Culture (ECoC) is included in the article. The authors of the research agree that the proper integration of cultural policy into the social system impacts and changes cultural values and beliefs, shifting them towards sustainable behaviour and sustainability. Many authors analyse the interrelation between culture and sustainability, thus defining the role of culture for sustainability. However, few discuss possible approaches or tools, which may offer assistance in the matter of how to reach sustainability in the context of culture.Design/Methodology/Approach: Research is based on the comparative analysis of the applications of the respective cities. The TBL methodology is implemented using the content analysis method as a tool. The outcomes of the content analysis are then used for the elaboration of the qualitative multi-attribute model using the DEX methodology.Results: While analysing bidding documents for the ECoC we: a) define the importance of the marketing plan (described as a comprehensive action) and b) argue that ECoC marketing needs to be turned to “sustainability marketing” as it is described and defined by many authors.Conclusions: The ECoC Commission should consider the importance of culture for sustainable development and, respectively, should evaluate the marketing plan of applicants under the sustainability framework.

scholarly journals Internal and External Factors in the Development of a Network Organization in the Arts: Case Study of Društvo Asociacija

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (82) ◽  
pp. 90-116
Author(s):  
Andrej Srakar
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
External Factors ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
Cultural Policies ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Network Organizations ◽  
Internal And External Factors

Abstract Network organizations in the arts have recently received substantial discussion in cultural policy research. Yet, very seldom have they been empirically modeled. We analyze development of Društvo Asociacija, the umbrella network of nongovernmental organizations and freelancers in culture and the arts in Slovenia between 2004–2017. Using mediation analysis, we observe two breakpoint periods in the development of the network and explore if they were the effects of internal, organizationally related factors or the mere response to external, macroeconomic changes. Our findings demonstrate the importance of internal decisions of the organization which have a self-standing, but not a mediating effect to the consequences of external factors like financial crises. This has an important consequence for European cultural policies as it shows to which extent network organizations in the arts should be supported directly and to which manner their condition is just a consequence of the changes in their external environment.

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