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Albro, Robert
Cultural rights in the context of cultural policy. - [S.l.] :
[s.n.], [2005]. - 31 p.
This paper examines the connection of cultural right claims to several
cultural policy concerns, tracking the shifting subjects and contents of
cultural rights. The author starts with cultural rights in cultural heritage
contexts, presenting in particular related UNESCO conventions and US
debates. He then goes on to look at status and formulation of cultural
rights in development contexts, exploring action of the World Bank and
dwelling especially on the event of the Universal Forum of Cultures in
Barcelona in 2004 which combined issues of access, participation and
expression in multicultural cities with promotion of local cultural
industries, tourism and urban regeneration. Here he discusses also the
UNESCO Convention on cultural diversity which understands culture as an
extractable content and governments as the right holders to apply their
cultural policies. This brings him to a broader consideration of state-based
concerns for cultural democracy. The final section is dedicated to the
cultural rights in grassroots movements and civil society activism. The
paper illustrates how promotion of cultural rights is always promotion of
other interests too, but this is probably a more promising way to advance
rights than the classical debates over a closed list of cultural rights.
Available online in Word:
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/.
Keywords: cultural rights - cultural objectives - cultural heritage -
international instruments - UNESCO - economic aspect - economic and social
development - urban renewal - cultural pluralism - democracy - interest
groups - protest movements
Call number: CP.B.6/20 |
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Comedia; Wood, Phil (ed.)
Inctercultural city : reader. - [Stroud] : Comedia, 2004. -
327 p. - ISBN 1-873667-92-2
(Intercultural city series ; 1)
This collection, addressed to a more policy-oriented audience, provides a
background to debates about cultural diversity and interculturalism, and
their relevance to innovative and progressive city development. The texts,
or rather extracts from texts, are structured into eight sections each of
which are preceded by an introduction and summary. The section "The
Cosmopolitan City" provides some context about the academic interest in
urban diversity and presents some ways of thinking about how cities work.
The following sections provide a couple of debates on diversity and clarify
the dimensions. The sections "The Economics of Urban Growth and Diversity"
and "Innovation and Knowledge Diffusion" locate the field of urban diversity
in relation to the mainstream approach to the economics of urban development
and innovation. The next part deals with intercultural competence and
communication, highlighting the cultural factors which determine how
different groups communicate, or fail to communicate. The part on the labour
market and small business contains text extracts which are based on
empirical research. The final section is dedicated to a more practical look
on urban interculturality with texts on how to manage the city of
difference, and how best to apply culture as source of positive energy to
the logic of urban competitiveness. The book ends with questions, linked to
several hypotheses about urban innovation; people with intercultural networking
capacity; openness across communities and social and spatial mobility;
capacities that innovate; and spatial dynamics in intercultural connections.
Contents: Reconsidering multiculturalism : towards an intercultural
project / Leonie Sandercock -- The key to creativity / Peter Hall -The
generators of diversity / Jane Jacobs -- Technology, talent and tolerance /
Richard Florida -- Contours of the next wave of creativity and innovation /
Charles Landry -- The English and the British today / Khrishan Kumar -- The
new approach / Yasmin Alibhai-Brown -- The new cosmopolitans / G Pascal
Zachary -- Migrant - do they bring economic benefit? / Migrations Watch UK
-- Beyond Sushiology does diversity work? / Peter Skerry -- Bio-ecological
diversity vs socio-economic diversity / Caroline Maignan et al. --
Development and growth / Dino Pinelli et al. -- The economic value of
cultural diversity / Gianmarco Ottaviano and Giovanni Peri -- Innovation /
Dino Pinelli et al. - The cultural swirl / Gisela Welz -- Elements of
diffusion / Everett M Rogers -- Culture / Dino Pinelli et al. --
Intercultural Communication / Everett M Rogers and Thomas M Steinfatt --
Negotiating reality as an approach to intercultural competence / Ariane
Berthoin Antal and Victor Friedman -- Past trends and future prospects /
Strategy Unit -- The local labour market effects of immigration in the UK /
Christian Dustman et al. -- Ethnic minority enterprise / Monder Ram and
David Smallbone -- Silicon Valley's new immigrant entrepreneurs / Annalee
Saxenian -- Multiculturalism in the city : managing diversity / Laura Capel
Tatjer - Integrating immigrants / Leonie Sandercock --- Women in the global
city / Saskia Sassen -- Equality and diversity in Birmingham / Ranjit Sondhi
-- Immigration and urban management in the 21st century / Marie-Claire Dumas
-- Urban social transformations and the impact of migration on metropolitan
areas -- Diversity and innovation / SOLACE.
Keywords: compilation - urban development - cultural pluralism -
urban areas - multicultural societies - policy-making - creativity -
scientific innovations - cultural innovations - intercultural communication
- value systems - economic competition - labour market - small enterprises -
cultural industry - local level - UK
Call number: CP.B.12.2/29 |
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Deutschland. Deutsche UNESCO-Kommission
Übereinkommen über Schutz und Förderung der Vielfalt kultureller
Ausdrucksformen : Magna Charta der internationalen Kulturpolitik. -
Bonn : Deutsche UNESCO-Kommission, 2006. - 111 p. - ISBN 3-927907-89-8
This booklet contains the text of the Convention on the Protection and
Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, adopted by the General
Conference of UNESCO on 20 October 2005, both in English and in German. The
German version was agreed upon between Austria, Germany and Switzerland. The
text is complemented by two articles. Von Schorlemer describes the making of
the Convention, looking at negotiations and contents, whereas Bernier
presents the steps which are necessary so that the Convention can realise
its full potential as international legal instrument, addressing the
question of monitoring. The German version of the UNESCO Declaration on
Cultural Diversity (2001) is included as well.
Keywords: legal text - international instruments - cultural pluralism
- cultural legislation - historical aspect - international cooperation -
monitoring - UNESCO - cultural policy - government policy - EU policy -
civil society
Call number: CP.B.7.0/41 |
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European Cultural Foundation (ECF); Keulemans, Chris (ed.)
The heart of the matter -- the role of arts and culture in the
Balkan's European integration. - Amsterdam : ECF, [2006]. - 73 p. :
ill. - ISBN 90-6282-047-6
The role of the arts and culture in the European integration in South-East
Europe was the main theme explored by the Balkan Reflection Group, an
initiative of the European Cultural Foundation. During 2005, the Group held
two meetings in Sarajevo and Belgrade in preparation of the conference in
The Hague in December 2005, at which the Balkan Inventive Fund for Culture
was set up. This colourful book includes the report of these two meetings,
together with the contributions of the artists, intellectuals, cultural
producers and political experts who were engaged in this exercise. The
recommendations adopted at the conference call for cultural development at
country level, cultural co-operation at regional level, and a cultural
dimension in the EU integration process. This book illustrates not only the
vital need - for all parties - to include the Balkan countries in Europe,
but also the risk for good-minded Westerners to adopt a patronising attitude
in their approach to cultural co-operation with South-East Europe.
Available online in PDF:
http://www.eurocult.org/uploads/docs/361.pdf.
Keywords: compilation - European integration - cultural aspect -
South East Europe - EU policy - cultural programmes - cultural cooperation -
regional cooperation - international cooperation - cultural development -
cultural conflicts - cultural finance
Call number: CP.SEE.1/2 |
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Giovinazzo, Mercedes
"Il Consiglio d'Europa e le misure in sostegno dell'accesso alla cultura".
In: Economia della cultura Vol. XVI, no. 2 (2006), p. 209-220 (ISSN
1122-7885)
This article presents the activities and achievements of the Council of
Europe in promoting cultural access, focussing on measures for people with
disabilities or from disadvantaged groups. The author starts by presenting
in general the Council of Europe's cultural co-operation work and goes then
on to look at the concept of disability. The second part lists in detail the
various programmes, publications and standard-setting texts of the Council
of Europe which refer to the cultural access and participation of disabled
or disadvantaged people. It covers both the sectors of culture and heritage
(DGIV), and of social cohesion (DGIII), and briefly looks also at the
Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe. An
integrated approach to the specific topic of cultural access of disabled
people is not (yet) in place.
Keywords: access to culture - disabled persons - disadvantaged groups
- Council of Europe activities - international instruments - cultural
participation - social integration
Call number: CP.J EDC16_2_209-220 |
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Hewison, Robert; Holden, John
The right to art -- making aspirations reality. - London :
Demos, 2004. - 16 p.
(Demos report)
This essay deals with the right to cultural participation in policy and
practice in the United Kingdom, with particular emphasis on visual arts. The
authors start from the right to participate in the cultural life and to
enjoy the arts, as it is enshrined as Article 27 in the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights of 1948. They briefly examine its implementation
in the current British policy. Whereas there is definitely an effort under
New Labour towards widening access and increasing participation, not all
social groups are reached. An active engagement across government
departments is necessary to remove social, psychological and educational
barriers, and to achieve equality of access. In fact, as the authors argue,
a visual literacy is required to exercise the right to art. They call for a
new language to inform public policy which vehicles not only the economic
value of visual arts, but also its public value, highlighting the moral,
creative and collective values connected with public goods.
Available online in PDF:
http://www.demos.co.uk/files/TheRighttoArt.pdf.
Keywords: cultural participation - access to culture - visual arts -
museum attendance - government policy - UK - cultural education -
educational objectives - international instruments - cultural rights -
economic evaluation - value systems
Call number: CP.B.6/21 |
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Kulturpolitische Gesellschaft; Schwencke, Olaf
Das Europa der Kulturen - Kulturpolitik in Europa : Dokumente, Analyen
und Perspektiven - von den Anfängen bis zur Grundrechtecharta. -
Essen: Klartext Verlag, 2006. - 2nd rev. and enl. - 443 p. - ISBN
3-88474-957-9
(Edition Umbruch : Texte zur Kulturpolitik; Bd. 14)
This compendium, now available in its second enlarged edition, provides a
collection of more than 50 texts tracing the development of cultural policy
at European level since the end of World War II. The texts are organised
into 16 sections which span from Europe as political idea to the draft
Constitution of
the European Union. Each section is introduced by an analysis which situates
the primary texts in the political context and evaluates their meaning for
Europe. The review covers not only main steps and players (UNESCO, Council
of Europe, European Union) in the integration process, but also the basic
stages and topics in cultural policy making: cultural development, cultural
democracy, cultural policy as societal policy, cultural heritage, cultural
rights, etc. The book includes many standard-setting texts and publications
extracts of the Council of Europe in German translation. Whereas the
compilation in its totality presents a kind of success story of European
cultural policy, it also illustrates how the Council of Europe has changed
from an initiator and motor to an Organisation which only contributes minor
importance to the cultural dimension of its work.
Keywords: compilation - cultural policy - international level - legal
texts - international instruments - European integration - UNESCO - Council
of Europe activities - EU policy - historical aspect - cultural cooperation
- cultural agreements
Call number: CP.A.2/18 (2006) |
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Meinhof, Ulrike Hanna; Triandafyllidou, Anna (eds.)
Transcultural Europe -- cultural policy in a changing Europe.
- Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. - xii, 315 p. - ISBN 1-4039-9712-8
This book deals with the cultural configuration of the European space;
addressing key challenges for current cultural policy in Europe. In the
introductory chapter, the editors outline the point of departure for
cultural policies - deadlock of the European project, multiculturalism in
crisis, security emphasis on migration policies - and how shifting the look
towards large cities across Europe reveals a different environment where new
forms of cultural expressions thrive, and where transnational and
cosmopolitan realities are actually happening. These urban experiences open
up new conceptual and theoretical perspectives, pushing forward cultural
policy thinking. This approach is mirrored in the structure of the book: the
contributions in part I focus on cultural policy in Europe, part II presents
case studies of specific cities, highlighting the experiences of London,
Paris and Berlin, Vienna and Belgrade, and Rome, whereas part III
investigates more closely the transnational and transcultural connections. -
In the following, selected chapters are presented which merit special
attention: Sassatelli looks at the role of culture in European integration,
examining especially the European City of Culture programme as an example of
local content in a European frame. Dragicevic Sesic and Dragojevic analyse
the lines of division between West and East/South-East which run through
Europe's cultural space. Kiwan and Meinhof look at cultural policy from a
discourse-analytical perspective, reviewing the multiple meanings and
connotations of 'cultural diversity' at European, national and urban levels.
In this context, they also analyse selected Council of Europe texts on the
issue of cultural diversity, identifying limiting and even contradictory
conceptions. Considering, in the third section, the challenge that the
presence of diverse migrant populations presents for Europe, Aksoy proposes
to take their experiences and networking as a paradigm for a transnational
Europe. Meinhof and Triandafyllidou introduce the new concept of
transcultural capital referring to a particular blend of social and cultural
capital in migrants' lives which can have positive economic consequences:
multiple identifications in diverse cultural settings, combined with bi- or
multilingualism, and strong transnational ties within and across migrant
communities constitute a powerful transcultural capital. Janovic and Mocnik
explore the complex interactions ("nexal flows") that occur between places
and social groups and which go beyond the national framework and
policy-making. Whereas public policies miss these streams, certain sectors
of cultural industries and alternative practices only seem able to mobilise
the enormous potential inherent in these processes. The chapter by Robins
concludes the book with an outlook on what a European policy for
transcultural diversity might look like; he shows how the transnational
connectivity and practices have changed the terrain, requiring new cultural
spaces, values and objectives, beyond the limitations of the national frame.
Contents: 1. Transcultural Europe : an introduction to cultural
policy in a changing Europe / Ulrike Hanna Meinhof and Anna Triandafyllidou
-- 2. The logic of Europeanizing cultural policy / Monica Sassatelli -- 3.
Imagined or real divides? / Milena Dragicevic Sesic and Sanjin Dragojevic --
4. Perspectives on cultural diversity : a discourse-analytical approach /
Nadia Kiwan and Ulrike Hanna Meinhof -- 5. London and the project of urban
cosmopolitanism / Asu Aksoy -- 6. The 'whiteness' of cultural policy in
Paris and Berlin / Nadia Kiwan and Kira Kosnick -- 7. Despite and beyond
cultural policy : third and fourth-sector practices and strategies in Vienna
and Belgrade / Martina Böse, Brigitta Busch and Milena Dragicevic Sesic --
8. Urban cultural policy and immigrants in Rome : multiculturalism or simply
'paternalism'? / Ankica Kosic and Anna Triandafyllidou -- 9. Challenge of
migrants for a new take on Europe / Asu Aksoy -- 10. Beyond the diaspora :
transnational practices as transcultural capital / Ulrike Hanna Meinhof and
Anna Triandafyllidou -- 11. Three nexal registers: identity, peripheral
cultural industries and alternative cultures / Nikola Janovic and Rastko
Mocnik -- 12. Towards a transcultural policy for European cosmopolitanism /
Kevin Robins.
Table of contents, introductory chapter by the editors and index available
online in PDF:
http://www.palgrave.com/pdfs/1403997128.pdf.
Keywords: compilation - cultural pluralism - international level -
urban areas - immigrants - communication technology - cultural industry -
cultural interaction - cultural innovations - cultural change - cultural
policy - multiculturalism - EU policy - European integration - cultural
dimension - cultural events - local level - cultural identity - Council of
Europe activities - Eastern Europe - traditional cultures - cultural participation - social
integration - UK - Germany - France - Serbia - Austria - Italy - policy
making - cultural objectives - cultural theory
Call number: CP.A.2/47 |
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Meyer-Bisch, Patrice (ed.)
Les droits culturels, une catégorie sous-développée de droits de
l'homme : actes du VIIIe Colloque interdisciplinaire sur les droits de
l'homme. - Fribourg : Editions universitaires, 1993. - 360 p. - ISBN
2-8271-0653-1
(Collection interdisciplinaire ; n° 28)
(Droits de l'homme ; n° 9)
This publication documents the eighth interdisciplinary colloquy on human
rights, organised by the Interdisciplinary Centre for Ethic and Human Rights
of the University of Fribourg in November 1991. The colloquy set out to find
a broadly shared definition of the nature and the importance of cultural
rights. The contributions are divided into five parts. The first one takes
stock of previous and ongoing activities related to cultural rights, looking
in particular at the situation at UNESCO and the Council of Europe. Against
the background of the difficult relations between culture and human rights,
Leuprecht describes how the Council of Europe, at first, enshrined in the
European Convention of Human Rights some rights with a cultural dimension
(freedom of religion, freedom of expression, freedom of assembly and
association), but was then urged by the increasing importance of the issue
to start further reflections and activities also with a view to additional
instruments. The second part is dedicated to sociological and legal aspects
of recognised cultural rights in the area of communication and information,
while the contributions in the third one discuss the links between cultural
rights and other rights, mostly related to territories and communities. The
fourth part, finally, presents political approaches to the implementation
and protection of rights. The conclusions of the colloquy, available in
French, German and English, state that cultural rights are rights to
identity, describe their characteristics both as individual and as
collective rights, and provide an indicative list of cultural rights.
Keywords: conference report - conference report - cultural rights -
civil and political rights - human rights - cultural aspect - legal aspect -
international instruments - UNESCO - Council of Europe activities - cultural
identity - cultural participation - access to culture - access to
information - right to education
Call number: CP.B.6/19 |
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Sutter, Eric
L'évaluation et les indicateurs de la performance des activités info-documentaires.
- Paris : ADBS, 2006. - 60 p. - ISBN 2-84365-082-8
(L'essentiel sur...)
This manual deals with performance evaluation and construction of
performance indicators in the area of information and documentation. The
author starts by clarifying basic concepts such as utility, efficacy,
efficiency, performance, and introduces then the existing reference texts
which he used for his approach: ISO 9004 Guidelines for performance
improvements, EFQM Excellence Model, etc. The second part is dedicated to
the measurement of performance in information and documentation activities.
In the third part, the author explains how to use the outcome of such an
evaluation for improvement. The annexes include as example the criteria for
capacity evaluation in information management of the National Archives of
Canada. This booklet is in particular interesting for information managers
for auto-evaluation with a view to performance enhancement.
Keywords: guide - information services - documentation - evaluation -
measurement - performance appraisal - quality control - management
techniques - information/library management
Call number: CP.R/Infodoc 3 |
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Regional Observatory on Financing Culture in East-Central Europe; Hunyadi,
ZsuzsaInkei; PéterSzabó, János Zoltán
Festival-world summary report : national survey on festivals in
Hungary including deliberations on public funding, evaluation and monitoring
[electronic resource]. - Budapest : KultúrPont Iroda, 2006. - 44 p.
- ISBN 963-06-0974-6
This report summarises the findings of the research on the Hungarian
festival scene carried out in 2004-2005, complemented with current
information on public financial support to festivals in 2006.
Available online in PDF.
Keywords: festivals - Hungary - cultural finance - state aid - survey
analysis - cultural statistics |
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Scotland. Scottish Executive. Social Research; Galloway, Susan
Quality of life and well-being -- measuring the benefits of culture
and sport : literature review and thinkpiece [electronic resource].
- Edinburgh: Scottish Executive, 2006. - 160 p. - ISBN 0-7559-2907-1
(Education ISSN 0950-2254)
Consists of a literature review, a review of research into subjective
well-being and its relation to sport and culture including examples of
quality-of-life definitions, and an analysis of the results of these reviews
with a view to policy applications.
Available online in HTML and PDF.
Keywords: literature review - quality of life - culture - sport -
measurement - social impact - economic evaluation |
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Scotland. Scottish Executive. Social Research; McIntyre, Morris Hargreaves
A literature review of the social, economic and environmental impact
of architecture and design [electronic resource]. - Edinburgh :
Scottish Executive, 2006. - 95 p. - ISBN 0-7559-6151-X
(Education ISSN 0950-2254)
Research aimed to gather sufficient national and international evidence of
the social, economic and environmental impact of architecture and design,
both positive and negative, to inform new design with a view to improving
people's quality of life.
Available online in HTML and PDF.
Keywords: literature review - quality of life - architecture - urban
design - measurement - social impact - economic evaluation - environmental
impact assessment |
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UNESCO; [Del Corral , Milagros]
Cultural and linguistic diversity in the information society
[electronic resource]. - Paris : UNESCO, 2003. - 72 p.
(UNESCO publications for the World Summit on the Information Society)
The report is intended to take the measure of the upheavals brought about by
the emergence of information and communications technology. Includes the
UNESCO Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity.
Available online in PDF.
Keywords: cultural pluralism - language - information society -
Internet - access to information - access to culture - copyright |
