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Accounting for Culture: thinking through cultural citizenship

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This book, like the conference which gave life to it, represents a partnership between
people interested in research on culture and people interested in cultural policy. But much
more complex and interrelated than that, it brings together people interested in rethinking
cultural policy in the light of understanding changes in culture, changes in relationships
between citizens and governments, and changes in ways governments operate. Its objective
is to look both at the bases of cultural policy in this changing environment and the
interrelations between statistical tools and conceptual tools. Therefore cultural indicators
and cultural citizenship form the poles around which, and between which, ideas bounce.
This introductory chapter's aim is not to describe the content of the discussions—the
individual chapters are there to do that—but to articulate at somewhat greater length the
ambitions of this project to rethink the basis for cultural policy.

The first question we want to explore is why the present moment seems so
particularly well chosen to re-examine the bases for cultural policy. We would argue
that there are a number of separate, but interrelated, transformations that make this
kind of very broad rethinking both necessary, and exciting. Without for the moment
trying to explain their interrelated nature, one can point to changes in governance (or
the transformation of the ways societies take decisions and particularly in the number
and types of actors taking part in these decisions), changes within government and in the
relations between government and citizens, and changes within culture, both in terms
of cultural products and cultural participation. Each one of these transformations is, by
itself, a massive field to map and analyze, and understanding their points of intersection
and reciprocal influence adds to the complexity.

We start with governance, used in the sense of designating a shift to societal
decision-making processes that involve a large number of actors, not only governmental
but also from the private and non-profit sectors. In addition, governance refers to
processes of decision-making using information flows and networks of relationships
between the relevant societal actors. The shift to governance has been explained in
a number of ways, from social actors wishing to be more involved in decisions, to
governments wishing to be less involved, to the influence of globalization and the ways
in which the rescaling of political and social action is taking place at the present time.
Governance obliges governments to connect in new ways with non-governmental
actors and to create the networks and structures for successful decision-making. As
Gattinger points out, this is an extremely important area and one that requires clear
and strategic thinking on the part of governments and civil society. As she points out,
engagement in the process is essential and the importance of engagement has often
been underestimated. Building trust relations between participants is a necessary stage,
particularly in fluid, network-based decision-making structures and this can never be an
automatic process.

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Judul Seri

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Penerbit

Canada : University of Ottawa Press., 2006

Deskripsi Fisik

FC95.5.A32 - 306'.0971 C2005-901624-8

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English

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0-7766-0596-8

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ILMU PEMERINTAHAN

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