Victoria Durrer - Managing Culture: Reflecting On Exchange In Global Times

This series brings together academic work which considers the production and consumption of the arts, the social value of the arts, and analyses and critiques the impact and role of cultural policy and arts management. By exploring the ways in which the arts are produced and consumed, the series offers further understandings of social inequalities, power relationships and opportunities for social resistance and agency. It highlights the important relationship between individual, social and political attitudes, and offers significant insights into the ways in which the arts are developing and changing. Moreover, in a globalised society, the nature of arts production, consumption and policy making is increasingly cosmopolitan, and arts are an important means for building social networks, challenging political regimes, and reaffirming and subverting social values across the globe.

More information about this series at http://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/15469

Cover illustration: Anna Goulding

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We would like to thank the Arts and Humanities Research Council in the United Kingdom. This publication has been made possible through their funding of our international research network,Brokering Intercultural Exchange: Interrogating the Role of Arts and Cultural Management( www.managingculture.net ), in addition to support from the Wrth Foundation. We also thank the many researchers, practitioners, and policymakers who took part in our seminars so far. Without them, these contents would not have been possible.

This important book focuses on a relatively neglected aspect of cultural policy: the training, methods, practices, and agenda-setting by cultural managers Equally important is the exchange among managers, communities and institutions and the encounter of values and perspectives on their practice. Indeed, the book itself is a productand future directionof such an exchange, an ongoing one that can be followed and joined online.

George Ydice,Professor of Latin American Studies, and of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Miami, USA

The Enlightenment claim for the universal nature of European culture looks ever more fragile in a globalising world with changing power dynamics. This valuable book questions the critical assumptions underlying the systems of thought and practice in contemporary artistic production, highlighting especially the mutual reinforcement of dominant approaches in education and management. A bracing, vital read for anyone concerned with cultural management, which helps distinguish habit and self-interest from what might be of real and lasting value.

Francois Matarasso,Community artist and writer