Public Culture, Cultural Identity, Cultural Policy: Comparative Perspectives

Mulcahy, Kevin V.

This book places the study of public support for the arts and culture within the prism of public policy making. It is explicitly comparative in casting cultural policy within a broad sociopolitical and historical framework. Given the complexity of national communities, there has been an absence of comparative analyses that would explain the wide variability in modes of cultural policy as reflections of public cultures and cultural identity. The discussion is internationally focused and interdisciplinary. Mulcahy contextualizes a wide variety of cultural policies and their relation to politics and identity by asking a basic question: who gets their heritage valorized and by whom is this done? The fundamental assumption is that culture is at the heart of public policy as it defines national identity and personal value.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2016-11-23

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781137398611

DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-43543-9

Dimensions: 210.0cm x148.0cm

Pages: 201.0