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Accounting for Culture

Thinking Through Cultural Citizenship

Many scholars, practitioners, and policy-makers in the cultural sector argue that Canadian cultural policy is at a crossroads: that the environment for cultural policy-making has evolved substantially and that traditional rationales for state intervention no longer apply.

The concept of cultural citizenship is a relative newcomer to the cultural policy landscape, and offers a potentially compelling alternative rationale for government intervention in the cultural sector. Likewise, the articulation and use of cultural indicators and of governance concepts are also new arrivals, emerging as potentially powerful tools for policy and program development.

Accounting for Culture is a unique collection of essays from leading Canadian and international scholars that critically examines cultural citizenship, cultural indicators, and governance in the context of evolving cultural practices and cultural policy-making. It will be of great interest to scholars of cultural policy, communications, cultural studies, and public administration alike.

Contributors

Caroline Andrew

Caroline Andrew is a professor in the School of Political Studies and the dean of the Faculty of Social Studies at the University of Ottawa;

Monica Gattinger

Monica Gattinger is an assistant professor in the Public Administration Program at the University of Ottawa;

M. Sharon Jeannotte

M. Sharon Jeannotte is manager of the International Comparative Socio-Cultural Research Unit in the Strategic Research and Analysis Directorate of the Department of Canadian Heritage (Government of Canada); Will Straw is an associate professor in and chair of the Department of Art History and Communications at McGill University.

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Thinking Through Cultural Citizenship ; 6 $0.72

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Discusses the need to move along and up the "knowledge value chain" from data (statistics), to information (indicators), to knowledge (benchmarks), to wisdom (policy). 12 $1.44

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Why do we have the notion that every society should have a culture of its own, and why do we get nervous when it is threatened? 11 $1.32

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Argues that "cultural participation" should be a basic building block of cultural citizenship, suggesting that the term is better thought of as a means but not an end of citizenship and … 23 $2.76

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Cultural experiences have an impact on one’s general values, including diose related to politics. Thus culture affects, through one’s normative predilections, how one evaluates … 17 $2.04

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Looks at the importance of public support for the arts and culture. 8 $0.96

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The concept of cultural citizenship will only be useful if the public understands and embraces it. The first question artists will ask is whether or not they belong to a specific culture. Time … 7 $0.84

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In this chapter, it is argued that both culture and citizenship, as well as the points where they intersect, can be shown to be heavily influenced by rapid and extensive change in their … 13 $1.56

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Overview of the components of a content industry innovation system. ; ; ; ; 20 $2.40

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A synthesis of current knowledge about social and cultural capital and their relationship to questions of citizenship. 22 $2.64

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Most discussions about cultural capital seem to revolve around the consumption or use of cultural goods and services. This chapter attempts to address some aspects of a more fundamental role that … 13 $1.56

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Étude de quatre cas qui illustrent l’évolution des pratiques culturelles pendant la période allant de 1979 à 1999 et qui révèlent un certain remplacement des … 24 $2.88

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This chapter attempts to gather and develop some of the resources we might use in charting the life of cultural artefacts as "trajectories," pathways of movement through national life. 15 $1.80

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Examines the nature and functioning of non-hierarchical relationships and the means of working towards effective co-ordination when power, resources, and information are highly distributed across … 20 $2.40

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Culture, cultural value, and heritage are all weasel words and connote multidimensional, shifting, and elusive realities. The deconstruction of these concepts and of these realities with the … 14 $1.68

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Examine la nature des relations qui s’etablissent entre justificatifs des politiques culturelles et indicateurs de performance au Quebec, au sein de l’Union européenne et au … 22 $2.64

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The presence of cultural indicators in community indicator projects has evolved from isolated scenes characterized by fledgling, pioneering attempts to that of an emerging field and more … 16 $1.92

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Reflections on the Socio-cultural and Socio-political Implications of Cultural Citizenship—Paradoxes and Contradictions. ; 6 $0.72

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There is a worrisome amnesia confronting the cultural sector in Canada today, as though the collective "hard drive" of the sector has been wiped clean of past policy and research experience. 8 $0.96