Enhancing Cultural Democracy: From national to global cultural democracy in cultural policies

Abstract: "Cultural Democracy", like many cultural policy themes, has different meanings, relevance and importance depending on the political, economic, cultural and social contexts in which it is applied. "Democratising culture" - implementing strategies to increase access to and the dissemination of ideas and values - has certainly been aided by the arrival of the internet, but it remains those with resources, with networks, with expertise and historical privilege, who are best able to assert their values, ideas, beliefs and ideological assumptions: what hopes then, for a more democratic world order, in which everyone - or at least the majority of people - may be able to project their views, traditions, values and perspectives into the "global market of ideas"? My reflections on this theme will be informed by my South African experience, by my serving as part of UNESCO's technical facility on the 2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, and

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• ISBN: 9783921970225
• Extent: Online-Ressource, 7 S.
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Veröffentlichungsversion ; begutachtet

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: ifa Input ; Bd. 01/2018

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Politik

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Stuttgart
• (who): ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen)
• (when): 2018
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Mannheim
• (who): SSOAR - Social Science Open Access Repository
• (when): 2018
• Creator: Van Graan, Mike
• Contributor: ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen)

Further information

• DOI: 10.17901/AKBP2.03.2018
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2020120908494397032431
• Rights: Open Access; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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