Public Culture, Cultural Identity, Cultural Policy

Comparative Perspectives
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-137-39861-1
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 201 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 448 g

This book places the study of public support for the arts and culture within the prism of public policy making. It is explicitly comparative in casting cultural policy within a broad sociopolitical and historical framework. Given the complexity of national communities, there has been an absence of comparative analyses that would explain the wide variability in modes of cultural policy as reflections of public cultures and cultural identity. The discussion is internationally focused and interdisciplinary. Mulcahy contextualizes a wide variety of cultural policies and their relation to politics and identity by asking a basic question: who gets their heritage valorized and by whom is this done? The fundamental assumption is that culture is at the heart of public policy as it defines national identity and personal value.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mulcahy, Kevin V.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturpolitik, Kulturmanagement
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Europäische Union, Europapolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments iiPreface: Why Read About Public Culture?   viKey Words xv
Foreword: What is Cultural Policy? 1       Public Culture and Political Culture 2       Public Culture as Public Policy           9       Objectives and Justifications of Public Culture           13       What is Culture? 22       Coda: The U.S. -- and the Rest 25
Part 1: Politics and Patronage 1   Hidden-Hand Culture: The American System of Cultural Patronage 36     The City of Washington 37From The New Deal to the Great Society 38Justification for Public Intervention 46


Part 2: Ideology and Identity 4    Coloniality: The Cultural Policy of Post-Colonialism < 155Cultural Reassertion: Mexico After the 1920 Revolution 160Cultural Restatement: Canada 165Cultural Reconstruction: South Africa 172Cultural Conundrum: Ukraine 176Coda: Imperialism and the “Other” 1855    Internal Coloniality: Cultural Regions and the Politics of Nationalism 198      What is a Cultural Region? 198      Quebec: From Survivance to Mondialisation 202       Puerto Rico: Culture Constructed 209       Scotland: Culture Renewed 214       Catalonia: Cultural Resistance 219       Coda: Region or Country 2256     A Cultural Space: Acadiana and Cajun Culture 234       The Uniqueness of the Louisiana Cajuns 236       Acadiana - The Cajun Homeland in Louisiana 239       Cajun and Cajunness 244       Cajun Folk Heritage 249       The Cajun Patrimony 260       Coda: The King Cake 264Afterword: Configuring Cultural Policy 269       Cultural Polarities 269       Cultural Darwinism 274       The Future Culture Policy 277

Über Autor(innen)

Kevin V. Mulcahy is the Sheldon Beychok Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Public Administration at Louisiana State University, USA, and received his PhD from Brown University, USA. He is the co-author or co-editor of six books, including Public Policy and the Arts and America’s Commitment to Culture (1995), as well as over fifty articles in scholarly journals and chapters in edited books. He has served as Executive Editor of the Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society for sixteen years.