Rethinking the foundations: global cultural policy at the crossroads [Recurs electrònic] /

O'Connor, Justin

Rethinking the foundations: global cultural policy at the crossroads [Recurs electrònic] / Justin O’Connor - 18 p. : digital, fitxer PDF (192,44 Mb)

This article extends the culture-as-foundational approach to the global level of cultural policy. Reviewing the failure of the 2015 campaign to establish culture as one of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the article argues that reframing culture away from being an economic sector and towards a cross-cutting all of society thematic is likely to compound the problems facing culture at global level. The article argues for a narrower framing of culture as the symbolic system of ‘art and culture’, taking as its exemplars the 1982 UNESCO MONDIACULT Conference, the 1995 UNESCO Our Creative Diversity and the 2005 Convention on Diversity of Cultural Expressions. It tried to show how a foundational approach to culture, including the notion of (global) public goods, can open up a route to a new, more radical approach to global cultural policy fit for these more uncertain times. This article is part of the special issue Culture as Foundational. (Font: Autor)



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