Managing Culture

This book provides new insights into the relationship of the field of arts and cultural management and cultural rights on a global scale.

Globalisation and internationalisation have facilitated new forms for exchange between individuals, professions, groups, localities and nations in arts and cultural management. Such exchanges take place through the devising, programming, exhibition, staging, marketing, and administration of project activities. They also take place through teaching and learning within higher education and cultural institutions, which are now internationalised practices themselves.

With a focus on the fine, visual and performing arts, the book positions arts and cultural management educators and practitioners as active agents whose decisions, actions and interactions represent how we, as a society, approach, relate to, and understand ourselves and others. This consideration of education and practice as socialisation processes with global, political and social implications will be an invaluable resource to academics, practitioners and students engaging in arts and cultural management, cultural policy, cultural sociology, global and postcolonial studies.

Considers the intersection of international exchanges with the ways in which we work and experience cultural diversity, (in)equality and inclusion within nations Articulates the relationship between practice and education Allows practitioners, researchers and educators to interrogate how the field's dominant ideology and their own actions may be promoting or hindering cultural inclusion and equality.

Auteur

Victoria Durrer is Senior Lecturer in Arts Management and Cultural Policy at Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Raphaela Henze is Professor of Arts and Cultural Management at Heilbronn University, Germany.

Both are founders of the international and interdisciplinary network Brokering Intercultural Exchange.

Résumé

"The book contains helpful and necessary definitions of basic terms by each author, which can have different notions when used in certain contexts and regions. This idea alone makes the book worth reading because it makes the reader aware of his or her own subjectivity. ... Thus, the anthology is a have-to-read for arts and cultural managers, researchers and educators with a mainly national working context, as well as for those who hope to gain new insights on their international work." (artsmanagement.net, August 17, 2020)

Contenu

1. Managing Culture; Victoria Durrer and Raphaela Henze.- Part 1: Conditions.- 2. Culture and International Development: Managing Participatory Voices and Value Chains in the Arts; J.P. Singh.- 3. More Than Just Lost in Translation: The Ethnocentrism of Our Frames of Reference and the Underestimated Potential of Multilingualism; Raphaela Henze.- 4. Value as Fiction: An Anthropological Perspective; Kayla Rush.- Part 2: Practice.- 5. Affective Arrangements: Managing Czech Art, Marginality and Cultural Difference; Maruka Svaek.- 6. The 'West' versus 'the Rest'?: Festival Curators as Gatekeepers for Socio-Cultural Diversity; Lisa Guapp.- 7. Challenging Assumptions in Intercultural Collaborations: Perspectives from India and the UK; Ruhi Jhunjhunwala and Amy Walker.- Part 3: Education.- 8. A Call for Reflexivity: Implications of the Internalisation Agenda for Arts Management Programmes within Higher Education; Victoria Durrer.- 9. Cultural Management Training within Cultural Diplomacy Agendas in the MENA Region; Milena Dragievi-ei and Nina Mihaljinac.- 10. 'Silence is Golden': Cultural Collision in the Classroom; Melissa Nisbett.- 11. Intercultural Exchange: A Personal Perspective from the Outsider Inside; Hilary S. Carty.- Part 4: Future Directions.- 12. Navigating Between Arts Management and Cultural Agency: Latin America's Contribution to a New Approach for the Field; Javier J. Hernández-Acosta.- 13. Managing Cultural Rights: The Project of the 2017 Taiwan National Cultural Congress and Culture White Paper; Shu-Shiun Ku and Jerry C Y Liu.- 14. Rethinking Cultural Relations and Exchange in the Critical Zone; Carla Fizgueria and Aimee Fullman.