Thinking about action : The role of research in cultural development / by Katarina Eskola and Pauline Hammerton
Series: Projecte 5 : La Vostra Ciutat, la Vostra Vida, el Vostre FuturPublication details: Paris : Council of Europe, 1983Description: 145 pSummary: In this book we suggest means of working towards emancipatory participation in the cultural field - cultural democracy - while keeping the dangers of repressive tolerance in mind. Societies are changing, not least in their attitude towards participation in many areas, and we try here to devise methods of increasing participation and responsibility on the part of ordinary citizens which do not absolve local and central governments of their 20th-century responsibilities towards them. The focus is innovative policies, and new methods, which become more suitable for participatory policies. With closer contact between administrations and citizens or local groups, innovation must come from the grass roots, it cannot be top-down and so earlier concepts must be rethought. Our task is made easier here through our brief being to concentrate on the role of research in cultural development, as our thesis is that a participatory action research approach using appropriate methods within that approach according to particular situations and conditions is essential to attempts to achieve cultural democracy. Research must be seen in a new light, take on a new role, and the research and scientific community must be brought into fieldwork. This is, we claim, the role of research in cultural development as we (and the Council of Europe) have defined it. The title of this book is "Thinking About Action". It is at the same time what we are doing in the next 100 pages and what we propose should be done, continuously, both in formulating cultural policy and out in the field by the people, cultural workers, researchers, cultural administrators and politicians. (Font: Introduction)| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Centre d' Informació i Documentació del CERC | CE PROJ.5/2 | 1 | Available | 1900023320 |
Foreword -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Council of Europe’s 21 Towns Project: Introduction ; The planning stage ; The Project, 1978-1982 -- 3. Cultural democracy and research: People as doers ; Integration of research ; Participatory action research ; The role of the “researcher” ; One approach, various methods ; Hidden structures and meanings ; Some problems -- 4. Two case studies from the 21 Towns Project: Introduction ; I. Paleo Faliro, Greece ; II. Södertälje, Sweden ; Action and knowledge -- 5. Summary of conclusions and consequences -- Bibliography
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