ABSTRACT
The chapter explores how the relationship between arts management and cultural policy is articulated within two main sites where arts managers are socialised into the assumptions, traditions and norms of their profession. As the sites in which arts managers are socialised into the profession, 'practice' and 'education' are where the historical, institutional and social assumptions and traditions of arts management and cultural policy are exchanged, enacted and reproduced. Arts management and cultural policy are thus influenced by epistemological approaches from, for instance, political science, cultural studies, sociology, economics, management and the arts and humanities. Cultural policy is often articulated as a space for critical discourse on the values society places on arts and culture. Arts management, on the other hand, is often articulated as a space for exploring applied management approaches to arts and cultural practice. Arts managers appear to recognise and/or accept a relationship between cultural policy and arts management.
