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

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’.

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.

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.

How ‘Creative Industries' Evokes the Legacy of Modernist Visual Art

2002 ◽  
Vol 102 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew McNamara
Keyword(s):  
Critical Role ◽  
New Economy ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
First Century ◽  
Cultural Industries ◽  
Creative Arts ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
Humanities Faculty

The concept of ‘creative industries' presents a new idea for the Arts/Humanities faculty predicated upon forging a conjunction between the creative arts and cultural industries. It also provides a unique opportunity for the creative arts as well as the old Humanities faculty to acquire a new role at the centre of policy discussions about the new economy. ‘Creative industries’, in short, provides arts and humanities with a ‘new’ industry face suited to the needs of the twenty-first century. Yet, so far, discussions about creative industries have focused upon either their new economy connections or upon their delineation from ‘cultural industries’. This fosters the impression that the concept of creative industries is forged from the intersection of cultural studies, the new economy and cultural industries alone. What is the place of the creative arts within creative industries? Has it any feasible critical role when it is constantly dubbed ‘the subsidised arts’? This paper presents a reading that shows that the conception of creative industries is actually reliant upon the creative arts — in particular, the legacy of interdisciplinary modernist practice within the visual arts. It will examine how the sometimes anti-art rhetoric of some creative industries manifestos evokes this legacy. It then draws out some important socio-political implications of throwing this legacy into this mix that currently constitutes ‘creative industries’.

scholarly journals Strategic paths for development of contemporary cultural policies and their educational implications

2021 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-154
Author(s):  
Wiesław Andrzej Żardecki
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Direct Influence ◽  
Cultural Expression ◽  
Cultural Policies ◽  
Artistic Activity ◽  
Educational Implications ◽  
Strategic Paths

Active, value-based cultural policy leads to development of culture and forms of cultural expression of individuals, groups or societies; also, it has direct influence on activities of creative industries combining artistic activity and entrepreneurship, operating in the free market and growing globalisation conditions.

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 The local cultural sector : Reinvigorating its public functions and foundations

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 31-37
Author(s):  
Anita Kangas
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Cultural Policies ◽  
Policy Sector ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Provision Of Services ◽  
Political Objective ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Cultural Sector

In the Nordic tradition, public cultural policy has been endowed with an enlightening and welfarepolitical aim. Nordic cultural policies are based on an overall socio-political objective of furthering the empowerment of the individual, universal enlightenment ("Bildung") and the continued democratisation of society (Nielsen 2003). Locally, an important actor is a municipal cultural sector that is one specialized sector in a municipality's administration. Cultural and art institutions (such as libraries, museums, theatres) are working under the cultural sector administration, although they might sometimes have their own separate administration. According to Gray (2002, pp. 82-83) the arts as a coherent policy sector within local government is weak because of low political salience and a fragmented field of activity, with many actors having a role to play in the provision of services and development of arts policies.

Media controversies and the cultural policies of the Morsi government

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 154-163
Author(s):  
Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Production ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Muslim Brotherhood ◽  
The Other ◽  
Policy Agenda ◽  
Production Environment ◽  
Cultural Policies ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
The Muslim Brotherhood

When in June 2013 the cultural production environment mobilized against President Morsi and his minister of culture, this turned out to be a prelude to massive popular demonstrations and the removal of Morsi by the army. But what were the cultural policies of the Morsi government all about? The article traces the cultural policy agenda of the Muslim Brotherhood and its Freedom and Justice Party, and the major controversies they engendered when in power. It argues that Islamization of cultural life may have been a long-term goal, but not a priority in the Morsi government which, on the other hand, at the end of its reign clumsily pursued a policy of “ikhwanization.” Focusing on two controversial films about Egypt’s Jews and Copts, respectively, it discusses revisionist accounts of the minority issue that has emerged after the revolution, and the Morsi government’s position on it.

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