Format:
1 online resource (235 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781409438724
Content:
How have cultural policies created new occupations and shaped professions? This book explores an often unacknowledged dimension of cultural policy analysis: the professional identity of cultural agents. It analyses the relationship between cultural policy, identity and professionalism and draws from a variety of cultural policies around the world to provide insights on the identity construction processes that are at play in cultural institutions. This book reappraises the important question of professional identities in cultural policy studies, museum studies and heritage studies. The authors address the relationship between cultural policy, work and identity by focusing on three levels of analysis. The first considers the state, the creativity of the power relationship established in cultural policies and the power which structures the symbolic order of cultural work. The second presents community in the cultural policy process, society and collective action, whether it is through the creation of institutions for arts and heritage profession or through resistance to state cultural policies. The third examines the experience of cultural policy by the professional. It illustrates how cultural policy is both a set of contingencies that shape possibilities for professionals, as much as it is a basis for identification and identity construction. The eleven authors in this unique book draw on their experience as artists and researchers from a range of countries, including France, Canada, United Kingdom, United States, and Sweden.
Content:
Cover -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Theories of Professional Identity: Bringing Cultural Policy in Perspective -- 2 Cultural Policy and the Promotion of World War I Heritage Sites in France: Emerging Professions and Hybrid Practices -- 3 Cultural Democracy and the Creation of New Professional Subjectivities: The Case of Cultural Mediation -- 4 Technology, Cultural Policy and the Public Service Broadcasting Tradition: Professional Practices at BBC News in the Social Media Era -- 5 Curators and the State, a Question of Interdependencies: The Case of France -- 6 Policy Rationale and Agency: The Notion of Civil Society Organizations in Swedish Cultural Policy -- 7 Museum Volunteers: Between Precarious Labour and Democratic Knowledge Community -- 8 The Transcendental Fan: Navigating the Producer-Consumer Dichotomy and Cultural Policy in the Digital Age -- 9 American Cultural Policy and the Rise of Arts Management Programs: The Creation of a New Professional Identity -- 10 Becoming a Cultural Entrepreneur: Creative Industries, Culture-led Regeneration and Identity -- 11 Cultural Policy and Agency in a Cultural Minority Context: Artistic Creation and Cultural Management in Northern Ontario -- 12 Being Part of the 'Supercreative Core': Arts, Artists and the Experience of Local Policy in the Creative City Era -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781409438717
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781409438717
Language:
English
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