PLURAL VALUES OF CULTURE IN EUROPE / Edited by Arturo Rodríguez Morató, Nancy Duxbury, Antonella Fresa, and Gábor Sonkoly.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rodríguez Morató, Arturo.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cultural pluralism--Europe--Case studies.

Cultural pluralism.

Europe--Ethnic relations.

Europe.

Europe--Cultural policy.

Genre:

Case studies

Essays

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1ST ED.

Place of Publication:

ABINGDON : ROUTLEDGE, 2025.

Summary:

In recent years, the plurality of values of culture has been increasingly recognized in practical, academic, and policymaking contexts. Beyond its traditional intrinsic values-linked to aesthetics, authenticity, and excellence-its capacity to contribute to well-being, to promote identity and belonging and tolerance and inclusiveness, to stimulate creativity, and to foster innovation are ever more acknowledged by a great variety of social actors. However, an economy- and market-oriented perspective has come to dominate the administrative and managerial discourse on cultural valuation for a few decades. This has resulted in a predominance of an approach to valuing culture that is expressed exclusively in terms of its economic impact, obscuring other values of culture. The European research project UNCHARTED has tried to counteract this predominance by providing a broader vision of the societal value of culture in the European context and by applying this alternative view to some of the most relevant areas in which cultural valuation impinges on cultural management and cultural policy today. This book presents its main results.Based on a pragmatist perspective, we have carried out an extensive multiple case study (65 cases in seven countries) that considers the multiplicity of agents who participate in cultural valuation processes (citizens, professionals of creation and preservation, experts, and politicians) and the diversity of evaluative practices in which they engage within three main areas: the field of cultural participation, the field of cultural production and heritage, and the field of cultural administration. The book shows the irreducible plurality of the values of culture, the characteristic complexity of the dynamics of valuation and evaluation in the cultural sphere, and the current shortcomings and possible improvements in institutional processes of cultural evaluation. It is essential reading for cultural professionals, policymakers, and scholars of culture.

Contents:

List of tables

List of figures

Contributors

Foreword: A daring collaborative intellectual project / Michèle Lamont

Introduction / Arturo Rodríguez Morató

Selection criteria of case studies in phases 2, 3, and 4 / Matías I. Zarlenga and Nancy Duxbury

Part 1. Chapter 01. Critical factors in shaping the parameters of cultural valuation in Europe / Arturo Rodríguez Morató, Matías I. Zarlenga, Victoria D. Alexander, and Oliver Peterson Gilbert

Chapter 02 Identifying values of cultureJoão Teixeira Lopes and Ole Marius Hylland

Chapter 03. Evaluative practices in action: Features, tensions, and resolutions / Paolo Ferri and Simone Napolitano

Chapter 04. Does value underpin cultural action? Policies, institutions, and society / Julien Audemard, Félix Dupin-Meynard, and Emmanuel Négrier

Part 2. Chapter 05. Redefining cultural valuation processes: A general reflection on possibilities in light of the UNCHARTED experience / Eszter György, Gábor Oláh, and Gábor Sonkoly

Chapter 06. Cultural strategic planning from the UNCHARTED perspective / Giulia Fiorentini and Antonella Fresa

Chapter 07. New value perspectives in culture-led urban regeneration / Arturo Rodríguez Morató, Victoria Sánchez Belando, Mariano Zamorano, and Matías I. Zarlenga

Chapter 08. Promoting the plurality of values in cultural information systems / João Teixeira Lopes

Chapter 09. The challenges of recalibrating the values of culture in the cultural field: Key recommendations / Julien Audemard, Félix Dupin-Meynard, Emmanuel Négrier, Arturo Rodríguez Morató, and Matías I. Zarlenga

Appendix A. UNCHARTED project: Glossary of terms / Matías I. Zarlenga and Nancy Duxbury

Appendix B. Descriptions of case studies selected and analyzed in phases 2, 3, and 4 of the UNCHARTED project / Matías I. Zarlenga and Nancy Duxbury

Appendix C. List of researchers and advisory board members

Index.

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

1-003-50055-2

9781003500551

OCLC:

1534514248