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.
List of figures List of tables List of contributors 1 Towards global cultural policy studies Victoria Durrer, Toby Miller and Dave O’Brien PART I Situating cultural policy 2 Cultural policy in political science research Jonathan Paquette and Devin Beauregard 3 Cultural economics, innovation and intellectual property Nicola C. Searle 4 Sociology and cultural policy David Wright 5 The relationship between cultural policy and arts management Victoria Durrer PART II Regulating cultural policy 6 Regulating cultural goods and identities across borders J.P. Singh 7 No exceptions: cultural policy in the era of free trade agreements Graham Murdock and Eun-Kyoung Choi 8 Intellectual property as cultural policy Siva Vaidhyanathan 9 Cultural policy between and beyond nation-states: the case of lusofonia and the Comunidade dos Paises de Lingua Portuguesa Carla Figueira 10 Cultural governance and cultural policy: hegemonic myth and political logics Jeremy Valentine PART III Rights and cultural policy 11 Disabled people and culture: creating inclusive global cultural policies Anne-Marie Callus and Amy Camilleri-Zahra 12 Minority languages, cultural policy and minority language media: the conflicting value of the 'one language-one nation' idea Enrique Uribe-Jongbloed and Abiodun Salawu 13 Cultural policy in Northern Ireland: making cultural policy for a divided society Phil Ramsey and Bethany Waterhouse-Bradley PART IV Practice and cultural policy 14 The art collection of the United Nations: origins, institutional framework and ongoing tensions Mafalda Dâmaso 15 Exporting culture: the Confucius Institute and China’s smart power strategy Tony Tai-Ting Liu 16 From arts desert to global cultural metropolis: the (re)branding of Shanghai and Hong Kong Kristina Karvelyte 17 Making cultural work visible in cultural policy Roberta Comunian and Bridget Conor 18 Fringe to famous: enabling and popularising cultural innovation in Australia Mark Gibson, Tony Moore and Maura Edmond 19 Inside out: the role of 'audience research' in cultural policies in the United States Jennifer L. Novak-Leonard 20 Considering the second-order health effects of arts engagement in relation to cultural policy Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt PART V Global issues, regional cultural policy 21 Inequalities: when culture becomes a capital Laurie Hanquinet 22 Cultural policy and creative industries Susan Luckman 23 Too-explicit cultural policy: rethinking cultural and creative industry policy in Hong Kong Louis Ho 24 Cultural policy and mega-events Beatriz García 25 The challenges of the new media scene for public policies George Yúdice 26 Uniting the nations of Europe? Exploring the European Union's cultural policy agenda Kate Mattocks PART VI Development and cultural policy 27 The international politics of the nexus ‘culture and development’: four policy agendas for whom and for what? Antonios Vlassis 28 Reimagining development in times of crises: cultural policies, social imagination, and the creative economy in Puerto Rico Mareia Quintero Rivera and Javier J. Hernández Acosta 29 Neoliberalised development of cultural policies in Taiwan and a case of the Taiwanese film industry in a creative industries model Hui-Ju Tsai and Yu-Peng Lin 30 Uneasy alliances: popular music and cultural policy in the ‘music city’ Catherine Strong, Shane Homan, Seamus O'Hanlon and John Tebbutt PART VII The nation state and cultural policy 31 Cultural policy in India: an oxymoron? Yudhishthir Raj Isar 32 From Cultural Revolution to cultural engineering: cultural policy in post-Revolutionary Iran Ali Akbar Tajmazinani 33 K-pop female idols: culture industry, neoliberal social policy, and governmentality in Korea Gooyong Kim 34 ‘Regeneration’ in Britain: measuring the outcomes of cultural activity in the 21st century Peter Campbell and Tamsin Cox 35 Japanese cultural policy, nation branding and the creative city Tomoko Tamari 36 Cultural policy and the power of place, South Africa Rike Sitas PART VIII Conclusions 37 The light touch: the Nigerian movie industry in a low policy environment Jade L. Miller 38 The political career of the culture concept Tony Bennett Index
Victoria Durrer is Lecturer in Arts Management and Cultural Policy at Queen’s University Belfast, UK. Toby Miller is Director of the Institute for Media and Creative Industries, Loughborough University London, UK. Dave O’Brien is the Chancellor’s Fellow in Cultural and Creative Industries at the University of Edinburgh, UK.
Reviews for The Routledge Handbook of Global Cultural Policy
"‘This Handbook not only re-thinks and re-conceptualizes the dimensions of global cultural policy studies, but also documents up-to-dated policy cases from global north to global south.’ — Anthony Fung, Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Beijing Normal University 'Research and scholarship in cultural policy has grown in recent years alongside a continuing expansion in the interpretation of the concept at a practical policy-making level. How do these developments play out in an increasingly globalised world? This volume brings together a wide range of original essays that consider the political, economic, sociological and cultural dimensions of cultural policy in a context of globalisation and international cultural relations. The contributors are drawn from a variety of disciplines, intellectual traditions and geographical origins. Based on a thoughtful division of the subject matter into coherent sections, and edited by acknowledged leaders in the field, the book will appeal to scholars, researchers and policy-makers concerned about culture and policy in international affairs today.' — David Throsby, Distinguished Professor of Economics, Macquarie University, Australia 'A must-have for any arts and culture scholar, this book provides a walkthrough of the ""weird, wired world"" of cultural policies around the globe, plus a foundational survey of their roots, theories and practices, from the field’s chief protagonists' — Dr. Abigail Gilmore, Senior Lecturer, Arts Management and Cultural Policy, University of Manchester"
