Towards cultural citizenship : tools for cultural policy and development / Colin Mercer

By:

Mercer, Colin

Contributor(s):

Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation

Publication details: Stockholm : The Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation ; Hedemora : Gidlunds Förlag, 2002Description: xxi, 195 pISBN:

9178446228

Summary: Cultural policy is increasingly central to national and international agendas. While it originally grew out of identification of and concern with the conditions in a fairly narrowly defined cultural sector, it is now a mainstream policy issue. Today the challenges, the opportunities and the responsibilities of cultural policy are changing, broadening. and connecting with economic, social and environmental policy. Cultural policy, that is to say, is about the fundamental human right of citizenship and the fundamental human objective of sustainable development. That was and is the basic message in Our Creative Diversity (1995) and in the Stockholm Action Plan, adopted at UNESCO's intergovernmental Conference on Cultural Policies for Human Development The Power of Culture in Stockholm in 1998. Culture can no longer only or mainly be restricted to the opera house or gallery 'the arts' but muse be looked upon and treated as a basic driving force behind human behaviour and central to human development. The Stockholm Action Plan stresses the need of communicating best theories and best practices and stimulating needed basic and applied research in the cultural policy field. This book is a Swedish contribution to this effort and is written by Professor Colin Mercer of The Nottingham Trent University, England in collaboration with researchers and specialists in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America. Mercer stresses that the diversity of understandings of the word, concepts and realities of 'culture' means that this is not a question of simply bringing together existing lists and aggregates of data. The core issue is to discus and try to construct a framework for 'knowledge management' for the cultural sector: to make the connections between rich fields of existing knowledge and research in cultural studies, anthropology, political theory, economics, sociology and the operational field of cultural policy. (Font: Editor)

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Centre d' Informació i Documentació del CERC Sala	General	S 02929	1	Available (Disponible)		1900084671

Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Towards Cultural Citizenship -- Executive Summary and Proposals for Action -- Towards a New Conceptual Framework for Cultural Indicators -- The Cultural Indicator Sers -- Comparators: Cultural Development and Human Development -- Developing Tools in the Context of Cultural Diversity -- Foundations for a New Framework: the Indicator Clusters -- Making It Walk and Talk: Cultural Mapping and Cultural Planning -- Contextual, Specific, and Support Proposals -- Bibliography -- Appendix: The Task, the Brief and the Objectives

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