ABSTRACT
Cultural policy intersects with political, economic, and socio-cultural dynamics at all levels of society, placing high and often contradictory expectations on the capabilities and capacities of the media, the fine, performing, and folk arts, and cultural heritage. These expectations are articulated, mobilised and contested at – and across – a global scale. As a result, the study of cultural policy has firmly established itself as a field that cuts across a range of academic disciplines, including sociology, cultural and media studies, economics, anthropology, area studies, languages, geography, and law. This Routledge Handbook of Global Cultural Policy sets out to broaden the field’s consideration to recognise the necessity for international and global perspectives.
The book explores how cultural policy has become a global phenomenon. It brings together a diverse range of researchers whose work reveals how cultural policy expresses and realises common global concerns, dominant narratives, and geopolitical economic and social inequalities. The sections of the book address cultural policy’s relation to core academic disciplines and core questions, of regulations, rights, development, practice, and global issues.
With a cross-section of country-by-country case studies, this comprehensive volume is a map for academics and students seeking to become more globally orientated cultural policy scholars.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|70 pages
Situating cultural policy
part II|78 pages
Regulating cultural policy
chapter 9|15 pages
Cultural policy between and beyond nation-states
part III|-62 pages
Rights and cultural policy
chapter 12|14 pages
Minority languages, cultural policy and minority language media
part IV|113 pages
Practice and cultural policy
chapter 14|18 pages
The art collection of the United Nations
chapter 16|18 pages
From arts desert to global cultural metropolis
chapter 19|10 pages
Inside out
part V|90 pages
Global issues, regional cultural policy
chapter 23|10 pages
Too-explicit cultural policy
chapter 26|17 pages
Uniting the nations of Europe?
part VI|68 pages
Development and cultural policy
chapter 27|13 pages
The international politics of the nexus ‘culture and development’
chapter 28|19 pages
Reimagining development in times of crises
part VII|112 pages
The nation state and cultural policy
chapter 32|17 pages
From Cultural Revolution to cultural engineering
chapter 33|18 pages
K-pop female idols
chapter 34|20 pages
‘Regeneration’ in Britain
part VIII|26 pages
Conclusions