scholarly journals Comparative Cultural Policy Research in Europe: A Change of Paradigm

2002 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Joh. Wiesand
Keyword(s):  
European Integration ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
European Research ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Integration Process ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Cultural Research ◽  
Integrated Research ◽  
Methodological Problems

Abstract: Parallel to the ongoing European integration process, comparative cultural policy research has changed its orientation and methods during the last thirty years, moving from institutional, almost "diplomatic" exercises to networking exchanges, and has arrived at an approach which favours integrated research projects. Against this background, this paper reviews the methodological problems of and first steps taken towards a more action-oriented and, at the same time, cohesive ("European") concept of cultural research, which extends beyond a mere comparison of national policies and experiences. This is illustrated through individual research projects and the more recent appearance of ERICarts, the European Research Institute for Comparative Cultural Policy and the Arts. Résumé: En parallèle avec le processus d'intégration européenne en cours, la recherche comparative sur les politiques culturelles a changé son orientation et ses méthodes pendant les trente dernières années, passant d'exercices institutionnels, presque « diplomatiques », à des échanges entre réseaux et aboutissant à une approche qui favorise les projets de recherche intégrés. Dans ce contexte, cet article passe en revue les premiers pas faits dans la direction d'un concept de recherche culturelle (« européenne ») plus active et, en même temps, plus cohésive, qui irait au delà d'une simple comparaison entre politiques et expériences nationales. L'article passe aussi en revue les problèmes méthodologiques qu'une telle approche soulèverait. À titre d'exemple, il se rapporte à des projets de recherche individuels ainsi qu'à l'apparition plus récente de ERICarts, l'Institut européen de recherche comparative sur la culture.

‘Picture It If Yous Will’: Theatre and Theatregoing in Rural Scotland

2005 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Hamilton ◽  
Adrienne Scullion
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Television Studies ◽  
Film And Television ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The University

In the following article, Christine Hamilton and Adrienne Scullion review the system of theatre provision and production that exists in the rural areas of Scotland, most especially in the Highlands and Islands, assessing the policy framework that exists in the nation as a whole and in the Highlands and Islands in particular. They highlight the role and responsibilities of volunteers within the distribution of professional theatre in Scotland, challenge the response of locally based theatre-makers and nationally responsible agencies to represent rural Scotland, and raise issues fundamental to the provision of culture nationally. In doing so, they question what we expect theatre policy to deliver in rural areas, and what we expect rural agents to contribute to theatre provision and policy. Finally, they suggest that, in the system of rural arts in Scotland, there are wider lessons for the development of arts in and the arts of other sparsely populated and fragile communities. Christine Hamilton is the director and Adrienne Scullion the academic director of the Centre for Cultural Policy Research at the University of Glasgow, where Adrienne teaches in the Department of Theatre, Film, and Television Studies.

scholarly journals Culture Unbound Vol. 5 Editorial

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-13
Author(s):  
Johan Fornäs ◽  
Martin Fredriksson ◽  
Naomi Stead
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
The Other ◽  
Culture Studies ◽  
Executive Editor ◽  
The Core ◽  
Cultural Research ◽  
Research Councils

We are proud to present the fifth volume of Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research. This time we have some important news to share. First, the journal’s scholarly success has been financially rewarded, in that Culture Unbound has received two different publishing grants: one from the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet) and the other from the Joint Committee for Nordic Research Councils for the Humanities and Social Sciences (NOS-HS). Together these two grants cover most of the costs for Martin Fredriksson’s work as executive editor, which forms the core of our rather minimal costs. The remaining expenses are covered by our three collaborating host institutions at Linköping University: the Advanced Cultural Studies Institute of Sweden (ACSIS), the Department of Culture Studies (Tema Q) and the Swedish Cultural Policy Research Observatory (SweCult).

Governance of or through culture?

Focaal ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2009 (55) ◽  
pp. 27-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Banu Karaca
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Economic Policy ◽  
European Integration ◽  
Cultural Difference ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Artistic Expression ◽  
Intercultural Dialogue ◽  
The Political ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The Arts

The notion of culture has loomed large in discourses and polemics regarding European integration and immigration in the European framework. While culture, as in fundamental cultural difference, is identified as the source of contemporary political quandaries, its incarnation as intercultural dialogue is conceived as their solution. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in the arts settings of Berlin and Istanbul, this article elucidates how this type of "culture talk" intersects with recent cultural policy formations in the European Union and the national arenas of Germany and Turkey. Much of the political productivity of culture arises from a constant slippage between the different, often contradictory, meanings accorded to the culture-concept. This extension of the "rhetoric of culture" engenders a shift from a governance of culture to one through culture by relaying an array of pressing political concerns from the realm of social and economic policy to that of culture in the sense of artistic expression.

Unia Europejska w stanie krytycznym. Nowe sytuacje – nowe konstelacje – nowe orientacje

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zbigniew Czachór
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
European Integration ◽  
Scientific Thinking ◽  
Specific Situation ◽  
European Research ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Integration Process ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The World ◽  
The Eu

The crisis in the European Union is forcing the world of science, mainly representatives of European research and studies, to change thinking, and thus to the need to search for new patterns of scientific thinking. Such formulas and views that will allow to explain and understand the dynamics of the construction and deconstruction of European integration. The paradigm of situationism is helpful here, which refers to the postulate of identifying and defining critical situations leading to changes in the EU. We define the situation here as a set of conditional circumstances and the state of the matter in which the European Union is located. The situation is also a fragment of the action (reconstruction of activities) taking place in the European integration process. Situationism may aspire to an integrative metatheory, because rejects all generalisation and universalisation of reality. It makes European integration actors (mainly policy-makers) connected with their actions (interactions – transactions) dependent on instruments (procedures) and requirements of the specific situation in which they found themselves.

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.

scholarly journals "Cultural Policy": Towards a Global Survey

2009 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yudhishthir Raj Isar
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
Cultural Practice ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Policy Action ◽  
Public Intervention ◽  
Global Survey ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Raymond Williams

The field of “cultural policy” has acquired sufficient purchase internationally to warrant a comparative global survey. This article examines questions that arise preliminary to such an endeavour. It looks first at the problems posed by the divided nature of “cultural policy” research: on the one hand policy advisory work that is essentially pragmatic, and on the other so-called “theoretical” analysis which has little or no purchase on policy-making. In both cases, key elements are missed. A way out of the quandary would be to privilege a line of inquiry that analyzes the “arts and heritage” both in relation to the institutional terms and objectives of these fields but also as components of a broader “cultural system” whose dynamics can only be properly grasped in terms of the social science or “ways of life” paradigm. Such a line of inquiry would address: the ways in which subsidized cultural practice interacts with or is impacted by social, economic and political forces; the domains of public intervention where the cultural in the broader social science sense elicits policy stances and policy action; the nature of public intervention in both categories; whether and how the objects and practices of intervention are conceptualised in a holistic way. A second set of interrogations concerns axes for the comparison of “cultural policy” trans-nationally. One possible axis is provided by different state stances with respect to Raymond Williams’ categories of national aggrandizement, economic reductionism, public patronage of the arts, media regulation and the negotiated construction of cultural identity. Another avenue would be to unpack interpretations of two leading current agendas, namely “cultural diversity” and the “cultural and/or creative industries”.

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