scholarly journals Artists’ Autonomy and Professionalization in a New Cultural Policy Landscape

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marita Flisbäck ◽  
Anna Lund
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Public Funding ◽  
Professional Autonomy ◽  
Civil Servants ◽  
Regional Culture ◽  
New Model ◽  
Professional Groups ◽  
Political Model ◽  
Specific Culture ◽  
Professional Artists

Using literature on the professions, the article explores how a new political model for funding and steering may affect professional autonomy. Professional groups’ efforts to independently practice their profession during times of political change are elaborated. The professional group in questions is artists, the context is Sweden, and the new model is called the Collaborative Cultural Model. This model entails a shift in the funding and realization of cultural policy from the national to the regional level. From a situation in which civil servants with specific culture knowledge were involved, politicians, representatives of civil society, civil servants and artists are now to work together to create a regional culture plan. In the article, two different outcomes of the new model are discussed as possible. It can lead to de-professionalization process, particularly if the policy on keeping outside influences at “arm’s length” weakens. On the other hand, negotiations between different actors could result in artists’ knowledge becoming more prominent and receiving more recognition than previously. This, in turn, could promote professional artists’ status. Keywords: Cultural policy, public funding, autonomy, artistic (de)professionalization, dominated and dominating  

Implementing UNESCO’s Convention on Cultural Diversity at the regional level: Experiences from evaluating cultural competence centers

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 511-525
Author(s):  
Diana Betzler
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Competence ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Central Region ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Public Funding ◽  
Regional Level ◽  
Policy Governance ◽  
United Nations Educational ◽  
Unesco Convention ◽  
Cultural Expressions

AbstractThis article deals with the question of whether regional cultural competence centers foster the diversity of cultural expressions and how the objectives of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO) Convention on Cultural Diversity are implemented. By introducing the Convention on Cultural Diversity, the conditions of regional cultural policy governance, and the idea of regional cultural competence centers, a framework for evaluation is outlined. The evaluation of four regional cultural competence centers in the Swiss Central Region shows that fostering cultural diversity is complex and has many different approaches and effects. The final discussion concludes that principles such as “interculturality,” “freedom,” and “access for all” under the Convention on Cultural Diversity can promote a diversity of cultural expressions but that these criteria have to be set from outside—for example, by public funding institutions—so that regional actors implement them.

The influence of the regional culture of Argentina in the 30—60s of the twentieth century on nationwide artistic culture and arts

2021 ◽  
pp. 67
Author(s):  
Natalya Rozenberg
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Art Criticism ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Regional Culture ◽  
Cultural Institutions ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Type ◽  
Human And Nature ◽  
The City ◽  
Art Schools

The history of art in Argentina in the XX-XXI centuries is studied mainly in three directions: the genre system, the spiritual and content aspect of works and creative biographies of outstanding masters. Special attention is paid to the links between the art of the Old and New World. Nowadays, the issue of connecting the artistic culture of the regions of Argentina — the center of the country, the northeast, and the northwest - is becoming urgent. The provinces not only perceived the trends of the capital's cultural policy, but also built their own cultural institutions that contributed to the creation and translation of the meanings of works about the uniqueness of human and nature connections far from Buenos Aires, and what is especially significant - about the diversity of ethnic types and characters. Such outstanding masters as Lino Enea Spilimbergo, Antonio Berni, Raul Monsegur, Eddie Torre taught in provincial art schools. They moved quite often from city to city, from province to province. We can assume that in the 40-50s of the XX century. in Cordoba, Mendoza, Tucuman and Resistencia, there were already professionals in all kinds of art. Argentine domestic scientists began to study these processes not so long ago. In this article, special attention is paid to the analysis of cultural heritage and the museum collection of the association El Fogón de los Arrieros (EFA, "Hearth of teamsters", hereinafter - Fogón), located in Resistencia, the capital of the province of Chaco, now known in the country as the City of Sculptures. Fogón became famous for its diverse cultural, educational activities, which began in 1943 and continues to this day. In the history of Fogón, a new type of educator has developed in the person of Aldo Boletti, Juan de Dios Mena, Hilda Torres Varela. The study used the historical and typological method and the method of art criticism analysis.

scholarly journals The Economic Valuation and Commensuration of Cultural Resources: Financing and Monitoring the Swedish Culture Sector

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Styhre
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Economic Valuation ◽  
Public Funding ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Creative Economy ◽  
Cultural Resources ◽  
Regional Culture ◽  
Social Interests ◽  
Culture Production ◽  
Economic Worth

Economic sociology treats the process of valuation and commensuration of resources as socially-embedded practices determined by historical, cultural, and political conditions. Empirical studies of valuation and commensuration demonstrate that the practices of creating metrics, accounting procedures, and other forms of numerical representations that denote underlying resources are bound up with social interests and instituted beliefs. Recently, cultural resources and culture production have been advocated as key drivers of economic growth in what has been branded the “the creative economy.” At the same time, a lot of cultural resources and culture production are, historically, not strictly valued in terms of economic worth, instead being commonly regarded as having an intrinsic social value. Such norms disconnect cultural resources and economic worth, while much culture production is simultaneously being funded by welfare states, making the allocation of public funding a matter of professional expertise. This article reports on a study of how officers of a regional Culture Agency allocate regional culture budgets and monitor culture production via processes of valuation and commensuration. The study contributes to our understanding of how valuation and commensuration play a role in non-market or pseudo-market settings where both political interests and wider social interests are bound up with calculative practices.

scholarly journals New model of State Cultural Policy of Russia

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 6-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lev Evgen’evich Vostryakov ◽  
◽  
Aleksandr Sergeevich Turgaev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Policy ◽  
New Model

scholarly journals FROM THE EDITOR

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Irhs Irhs
Keyword(s):  
Natural Environment ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Regional Culture ◽  
Previous Issue ◽  
The World ◽  
Wedding Ceremony ◽  
Archeological Artifacts ◽  
Rule Out

Discussing the issues of the humanities, as well as other fields of science, does not seem to be endless, as long as we are still living in this world, because it exists in every part of the world and in every generation. As is the case in our journal, every issue always contains various problems about humanities from various countries. As contained in the description of this journal that the scope of this journal are matters relating to culture from around the world with various aspects. Likewise, in this July 2019 issue, readers can enjoy various cultural discussions from various countries, such as writing from China, which discusses multiculturalism thinking from Ho Chi Minh, then which discusses about Nigeria's cultural policy and the needs of performing arts, written by author from Nigeria.Besides these two countries, as well as in previous publications, this journal was dominated by articles originating from Indonesia, because this journal was indeed published in that country. However, it does not rule out the possibility for readers who want to see cultural problems in other countries, because even though the author comes from Indonesia, but the discussion is not necessarily about the problem of Indonesian culture, but about culture in other countries, such as an article on semiotic studies about communism in the film ЧЕБУРАШКА (ČEBURAŠKA). In addition, there are also articles made by Indonesian authors in which discuss the culture of other countries that are related to culture in Indonesia, such as articles on the reasons why Indonesians must learn Arabic and about translating Indonesian fatigue expressions into Arabic.In addition to writing about culture from outside the country, Indonesian authors also write about the culture of the country, especially about regional culture. As is known that the country of Indonesia consists of various tribes, each of which has its own culture. Among the discussions about regional culture written in this issue, is an analysis of Javanese regional novels by Javanese novelist Tulus Setiadi, about functions, meanings and messages of the natural environment from the story of "Keong Emas", about denotation, connotation and mythical meaning of The Cio Tao's ritual's wedding ceremony of the Chinese-fortress community through The semio-pragmatics approach and about slipping into the shadows of Kyai’s figures: woman participation in Indonesian Pesantren’s web of powerAnother article that is also interesting to be observed by readers in this issue is articles relating to issues of religion and belief, both from Indonesian and foreign authors, for example about the reality and non-peculiarity of The Yoruba's belief in reincarnation, written by an author from Nigeria and about bird symbols in Persian mystical poetry, written by an author from Indonesia. In addition, there are articles on religion and belief, in this issue, there are also articles on other cultural fields, such as philosophy, namely, about Hannah Arendt's "Political Beings" as a representation of political existentialism for human existing in the world and in the field of archeology, namely, about archeological artifacts as expressive desire of Hindu-Buddha religions in Java in the 8th-15th centuries.Like the previous issue, this journal always presents interesting articles about humanities from various parts of the world. Hopefully the readers can benefit from reading the articles displayed in this journal and are interested in participating in submitting articles about culture in their respective countries to exchange treasures about the field of humanities, both for ourselves and others.

scholarly journals Equal Access or Empowerment?

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sofia Lindström Sol
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Civil Servant ◽  
Civil Servants ◽  
Equal Access ◽  
Cultural Institutions ◽  
Cultural Participation ◽  
Cultural Democracy ◽  
Policy Level ◽  
Managerial Level

The concept of cultural participation is seldom defined in policy but carries a positive connotation. The aim of this article is to understand how participation is made meaningful by policy stakeholders, exemplified by a Swedish municipality, with special attention directed towards two cultural institutions working to enhance young people’s participation. The analysis considered levels of interest in participation, from the policy level, managerial level and civil servant level. The analysis found the meaning of participation shifted from a focus on equal access to empowering young people as a marginalised group, mirroring theories of a shift from a cultural democratisation paradigm to a cultural democracy paradigm in cultural policy. The civil servants shared an understanding that it is possible to distribute power from adults to young people, but the overlap of the two paradigms in the goal of achieving participation resulted in tensions and paradoxes regarding the issue of negotiating power.

scholarly journals Europa más allá de la Unión : pacto confederal y nuevo relato europeo = Europe beyond the Union : confederal pact, and new european story

2013 ◽  
pp. 341
Author(s):  
Alejandro del Valle Gálvez
Keyword(s):  
Continuous Process ◽  
The Political ◽  
Integration Process ◽  
New Model ◽  
European Project ◽  
Political Model

Actualmente esta en crisis la esencia de la integración europea, que es la idea de proceso abierto y continuo, en lo económico, en lo político. Reiniciar el debate sobre el modelo político de la integración y sus modos democráticos de articulación es recuperar también el impulso esencial y el relato del proyecto europeo. Se propone plantear explícitamente un nuevo modelo de legitimidad para Europa, mediante un Pacto Confederal entre Estados y ciudadanos.Currently the essence of European integrationis in crisis : the idea of an open and continuous process in the economy and in the politics. Restart the debate on the political model of integration and its democratic modes of articulation is also recovering the very essential aims of the integration process, and the story of the European project. It is proposed to explicitly discuss new model of legitimacy to Europe, through a Confederal Pact between States and citizens.

scholarly journals Professionals’ responses to the introduction of AI innovations in radiology and their implications for future adoption: a qualitative study

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yaru Chen ◽  
Charitini Stavropoulou ◽  
Radhika Narasinkan ◽  
Adrian Baker ◽  
Harry Scarbrough
Keyword(s):  
Professional Autonomy ◽  
Potential Solution ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Work Processes ◽  
Professional Groups ◽  
The Future ◽  
Potential Applications ◽  
Increasing Demand ◽  
Professional Responses ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Background Artificial Intelligence (AI) innovations in radiology offer a potential solution to the increasing demand for imaging tests and the ongoing workforce crisis. Crucial to their adoption is the involvement of different professional groups, namely radiologists and radiographers, who work interdependently but whose perceptions and responses towards AI may differ. We aim to explore the knowledge, awareness and attitudes towards AI amongst professional groups in radiology, and to analyse the implications for the future adoption of these technologies into practice. Methods We conducted 18 semi-structured interviews with 12 radiologists and 6 radiographers from four breast units in National Health Services (NHS) organisations and one focus group with 8 radiographers from a fifth NHS breast unit, between 2018 and 2020. Results We found that radiographers and radiologists vary with respect to their awareness and knowledge around AI. Through their professional networks, conference attendance, and contacts with industry developers, radiologists receive more information and acquire more knowledge of the potential applications of AI. Radiographers instead rely more on localized personal networks for information. Our results also show that although both groups believe AI innovations offer a potential solution to workforce shortages, they differ significantly regarding the impact they believe it will have on their professional roles. Radiologists believe AI has the potential to take on more repetitive tasks and allow them to focus on more interesting and challenging work. They are less concerned that AI technology might constrain their professional role and autonomy. Radiographers showed greater concern about the potential impact that AI technology could have on their roles and skills development. They were less confident of their ability to respond positively to the potential risks and opportunities posed by AI technology. Conclusions In summary, our findings suggest that professional responses to AI are linked to existing work roles, but are also mediated by differences in knowledge and attitudes attributable to inter-professional differences in status and identity. These findings question broad-brush assertions about the future deskilling impact of AI which neglect the need for AI innovations in healthcare to be integrated into existing work processes subject to high levels of professional autonomy.

scholarly journals Culture at the Periphery: The Challenges and the Opportunities (The Case of Sverdlovsk Oblast)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dobreytsina L. E.
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Sverdlovsk Oblast ◽  
Regional Culture ◽  
The Urals ◽  
Cultural Products ◽  
Cultural Space ◽  
Cultural Process

Using the case of Sverdlovsk region as an example, the paper analyses the issues of uneven regional cultural development. The author discusses the need to use a bi-directional approach for involving peripheral cities in contemporary cultural process: first, by increasing availability of the center’s cultural products in the peripheral regions and, second, by encouraging the original regional cultural production. In both cases it important to utilize opportunities provided by physical and digital cultural space. Keywords: cultural policy, cultural capital, regional culture, the Urals.

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