ABSTRACT
This chapter considers how useful it is to think about the geography of cultural management and the places it occupies as an academic and practical discipline. Cultural management is sometimes regarded as known territory with roots in already established fields on which may be grafted new branches of knowledge and practice. Further, whether or not the transformation of arts administration into cultural management has historical significance for the field, in terms of research focus, content of training, or conduct of practice has also never really been explored, but perhaps should be. Administration suggests roots in public administration, a subfield of political science, whereas the implications of management are that we are much closer to business, or to the management sciences. National and ethnic origin is something that cultural management researchers have sometimes considered, claiming that differences in cultural orientations might have influence on cultural management practices.
