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 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.

The ‘Problem of Culture’: A Case Study of Some Arts Industries in Southwest Western Australia

2001 ◽  
Vol 101 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-139
Author(s):  
Lorna Kaino
Keyword(s):  
Western Australia ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Strategic Analysis ◽  
Policy Planning ◽  
Arts Policy ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Policy Frameworks ◽  
Southwest Region ◽  
Glass Art

This paper presents a case study of three glass art studios situated in the southwest of Western Australia. The study is designed to provide a model for a larger study of the arts industries that will contribute to a strategic analysis of cultural policies for arts industry development. Its purpose is to offer insights into why arts policy frameworks and arts development strategies in the southwest of Western Australia appear to have had limited outcomes consistent with their arts industry objectives. It proposes that one of the reasons — difficult to formalise in policy documents but a persistent theme in informal discussions I have had with arts practitioners all over the southwest region — is a conceptual problem related to instrumentalities charged with the responsibility of implementing arts policy and development. I propose that this is a ‘problem of culture ‘. I explore this proposition in relation to cultural policy planning and development at the regional level within a wider framework at the state and federal levels in Australia and internationally.

scholarly journals CULTURAL POLICY AND THE RISE OF MULTICULTURALISM STUDY OF FINE ARTS EXHIBITION IN THE 2000s, THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF INDONESIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Citra Smara Dewi
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
National Gallery ◽  
Art Exhibition ◽  
Historical Method ◽  
Cultural Policies ◽  
Method Approach

This study focuses on the role of cultural policy in the rise of multiculturalism with a case study of the Indonesian Art Exhibition, Pameran Seni Rupa Nusantara (PSRN) 2000s, which was initiated by a cultural institution, the National Gallery of Indonesia (GNI). PSRN exhibition is one of the important programs of GNI because it gives space to the artists of the archipelago - not just Java and Bali - to present works of modern-contemporary art rooted in local wisdom. As a nation that has the characteristics of pluralism, the spirit of multiculturalism in art has become very significant, especially in the middle of the Disruption era which is "full of uncertainty". This article uses qualitative research with a historical method approach: heuristics, verification, interpretation and historiography, namely the process of writing history based on proven facts. Material Culture analysis approach, shows how history may be read and interpreted through objects/ artefacts/findings used by artists in their works. The results show that the Cultural Policy implemented by GNI is a combination of cultural policies that are authoritarian with the cultural policies of the Command, with an emphasis on the strength of the Potential Localization owned by the Indonesian people.

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.

‘Room to Rhyme’: Heaney, Arts Policy and Cultural Tradition in Northern Ireland 1968–1971

2019 ◽  
Vol 71 (300) ◽  
pp. 554-568
Author(s):  
Conor Carville
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Cultural Tradition ◽  
Northern Irish ◽  
Arts Policy ◽  
The North ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Complex Development ◽  
The Public Sphere

Abstract Drawing on extensive research in Arts Council and government archives in Belfast and the collections of Seamus Heaney’s manuscripts, this essay reconstructs for the first time Northern Irish state cultural policy at the height of the crisis years 1968–1972. It also examines the response of a major poet to this policy, through a genetic mapping of the complex development of Heaney’s poem ‘The Last Mummer’, between 1969 and its publication in 1972. The poem refers to the mumming plays practiced at Christmas when troupes of young men, or ‘Rhymers’ would enter and perform in the houses of both communities in the North. This practice also informed ‘Room to Rhyme’, the Arts Council sponsored 1968 tour of several towns in Northern Ireland by Heaney and Michael Longley and the folk musician Davy Hammond. The make-up of the performers on the tour, the itinerary and accompanying booklet, suggest a deliberate attempt on the part of the Arts Council Northern Ireland to assert a role for itself, and for culture, in the political thaw of the time. In the years immediately after the tour, however, major confrontations between civil rights marches and police, widespread sectarian rioting and ultimately troops on the streets, resulted in even more extreme polarization in the North. As this essay shows, Heaney’s manuscripts from this period provide a valuable resource for the examination of the relationship between poetry, the public sphere and notions of cultural tradition in early 1970s Northern Ireland.

scholarly journals Revisiting the Cultural Policy Moment: Queensland Cultural Policy from Goss to Bligh

2011 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 190-206
Author(s):  
Stuart Glover
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Policy Studies ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Cultural Sector

An account of cultural policy-making in Queensland since the election of the Goss Labor government in 1989 requires revisiting the rise and fall of what Stevenson (2000) has called the ‘cultural policy moment’ in Australia.This period, from the early 1990s to the early 2000s, was characterised by political and scholarly interest in the civic and symbolic utility of culture, and in the outcomes achieved through its management. The cultural policy moment was produced simultaneously within government, the cultural sector and the academy. Within government, it was characterised by a new and highly visible interest in managing culture and (through it) the citizenry (O'Regan 2002). Within the academy, the cultural policy project was raised by Tim Rowse in Arguing the Arts (1985) and developed by the Institute for Cultural Policy Studies at Griffith University through the work of Ian Hunter, Tony Bennett, Toby Miller, Colin Mercer, Jenny Craik, Tom O'Regan and Gay Hawkins in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Stuart Cunningham's Framing Culture (1992) focused existing debate within Australian cultural studies over the place of policy-based approaches within the discipline.

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 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.

The Paradox of Postcolonial Korean Nationalism: State-Sponsored Cultural Policy in South Korea, 1965–Present

2010 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sang Mi Park
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Policy ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Cultural Practice ◽  
Diplomatic Relations ◽  
South Korean Government ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Cultural Policies ◽  
The North ◽  
Korean Nationalism ◽  
Cultural Experiences

Abstract This paper examines the process by which the South Korean government revived Japanese forms of cultural policy to mobilize the populace in support of state goals, thus reproducing colonial cultural experiences in postcolonial times. Facing threats to their authority from the North Korean communist alternative, the inequalities of rapid economic development, and the questionable legitimacy of their unelected military governments, successive South Korean regimes expanded cultural policies to create a shared sense of national identity. While placing particular emphasis on Park Chung Hee’s adaptation of Japanese cultural projects to uphold the legitimacy of his regime after the normalization of diplomatic relations in 1965, I also underscore how later regimes managed many colonial cultural experiences to create their own national cultural policies. My discussion of continuities and discontinuities in cultural practice between these two East Asian nations contributes to a better understanding of the transnational exchange of the ideals and structures used to facilitate state goals.

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.

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