Cultural policy intersects with political, economic, and socio-cultural dynamics at all levels of society, placing high and often contradictory expectations on the capabilities and capacities of the media, the fine, performing, and folk arts, and cultural heritage. These expectations are articulated, mobilised and contested at - and across - a global scale. As a result, the study of cultural policy has firmly established itself as a field that cuts across a range of academic disciplines, including sociology, cultural and media studies, economics, anthropology, area studies, languages, geography, and law. This Routledge Handbook of Global Cultural Policy sets out to broaden the field's consideration to recognise the necessity for international and global perspectives.

The book explores how cultural policy has become a global phenomenon. It brings together a diverse range of researchers whose work reveals how cultural policy expresses and realises common global concerns, dominant narratives, and geopolitical economic and social inequalities. The sections of the book address cultural policy's relation to core academic disciplines and core questions, of regulations, rights, development, practice, and global issues.

With a cross-section of country-by-country case studies, this comprehensive volume is a map for academics and students seeking to become more globally orientated cultural policy scholars.

Author: Victoria Durrer
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 02/14/2019
Series: Routledge International Handbooks
Pages: 648
Weight: 2.31lbs
Size: 9.69h x 6.85w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780367244163

About the Author

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

Toby Miller is Director of the Institute for Media and Creative Industries, Loughborough University London, UK.

Dave O'Brien is the Chancellor's Fellow in Cultural and Creative Industries at the University of Edinburgh, UK.