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- Axelsson, Bodil, 1965-
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Museum diplomacy in the digital age
- 2022
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Ingår i: The International Journal of Cultural Policy. - : Routledge. - 1028-6632 .- 1477-2833. ; 28:1, s. 124-130
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- Biltekin, Nevra
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Unofficial Ambassadors : Swedish Women in the United States and the Making of Non-State Cultural Diplomacy
- 2020
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Ingår i: The International Journal of Cultural Policy. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1028-6632 .- 1477-2833. ; 26:7, s. 959-972
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article examines how women contribute to cultural diplomacy by engaging in activities that relate to their country of origin. The article focuses on one non-state network called the Swedish Women’s Educational Organization (SWEA). SWEA aims to foster interest in Swedish culture by organizing public cultural events and financially supporting causes that aim to increase engagement with Swedish culture. The transnational practices that these women engage in enables them to display Swedish culture to American society. This study examines how these women assume meaningful roles as unofficial ambassadors of Sweden, and how their daily and unpaid activities to promote their homeland culture is recognized by official Swedish representatives in the United States. Study findings show that the work these women perform became entangled with official diplomatic institutions. On a structural level, the women’s agency enables them to carve out meaningful spaces for themselves within the field of cultural diplomacy. At the same time, some of their assumed roles reinforce notions about feminine spheres of action within international relations.
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- Blomgren, Roger
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Autonomy or democratic cultural policy:that is the question
- 2012
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Ingår i: The International Journal of Cultural Policy. - : Routledge. - 1028-6632 .- 1477-2833. ; 18:5, s. 519-529
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article argues that the concept of democracy, i.e. a political system that reflects the will of the people either directly or through representatives, is never or very seldom emphasised as an essential value in cultural policy debates or in cultural policy research. Instead the concept of autonomy is often put forward as the principal value when cultural policies are debated. Autonomy is central to many democratic theories and in cultural matters it is often described as the arm’s length principle. In this article, I will lean on institutional theories to discuss and explain why democracy in the classical sense never has been put forward as an important value and why autonomy usually is. I will also undertake a critical examination of the autonomy concept, as it has been defined in cultural policy.
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- Borén, Thomas, et al.
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Policy-making as an emotionally-charged arena : the emotional geographies of urban cultural policy-making
- 2021
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Ingår i: The International Journal of Cultural Policy. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1028-6632 .- 1477-2833. ; 27:4, s. 449-462
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Analysis of the role emotions play in a range of social processes has increased significantly, but is neglected in the context of cultural policy-making. Recent literatures in feminist and emotional geographies draw attention to how emotions are emergent in, and play a role in shaping, a broad range of social contexts and processes, while other literatures stress the need to 'personalise' the expert and consider the emotional aspects of planning. Inspired by these literatures we deploy the notion of 'affective urbanism' to study how emotions are interwoven with cultural policy spaces in the city and explore the 'emotional regimes' that incorporate emotions with the multi-scalar politics that is shaping urban cultural policy-making. This is undertaken through an analysis of emotions in the working lives and political contexts of cultural policy-makers in Stockholm (Sweden), Gdansk (Poland) and Manchester (UK). Overall the paper seeks to develop a research agenda that places emotions centrally in studies of cultural policy formation and implementation.
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- Calderon-Sandoval, Orianna, 1987-
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Implementing gender equality policies in the Spanish film industry : persistent prejudices and a feminist will to 'exploit the centre into concentric circles'
- 2022
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Ingår i: The International Journal of Cultural Policy. - : Routledge. - 1028-6632 .- 1477-2833. ; 28:4, s. 446-460
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Over the last decade, gender equality measures like positive actions in public funding have been implemented in the Spanish film industry. This article discusses these measures by looking at both the gender order that has been embedded in the Spanish film governance regime since its origins and the ways in which such gender order re-emerges in the current context as expressed by women film workers. Two persistent prejudices that can be traced back to Franco's dictatorship are identified: Public funding as connected to censorship and/or lack of profitability, and the representation of women as incapable members of a so-called 'minority' that has to be assisted. Concrete measures including quotas are necessary for adjusting the unbalance in women's participation, but they are means towards an end that goes beyond quantitative changes, for the ultimate goal would entail transforming the structure of a patriarchal film governance regime from a bottom-up feminist approach.
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- de Boise, Sam, 1985-
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Tackling gender inequalities in music : A comparative study of policy responses in the UK and Sweden
- 2019
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Ingår i: The International Journal of Cultural Policy. - : Routledge. - 1028-6632 .- 1477-2833. ; 25:4, s. 486-499
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Cross-disciplinary research has highlighted the persistence of gender inequalities across music scenes. However, the way in which cultural policy shapes responses to gender inequalities in music has been relatively underexplored. This article draws on research from Swedish and UK contexts, supporting analysis with reference to 9 key-stakeholder interviews from both. Comparing perspectives from ‘more’ and ‘less’ gender-equal contexts, with sufficiently different cultural policy traditions, the article explores how responses to gender inequalities in music are influenced by ‘cultural democratic’ and ‘arm’s length’ approaches. It demonstrates that, as a result of these traditions, there is a comparatively more interventionist approach in Sweden at a national level, whereas the lack of central government response in the UK has encouraged more market-oriented solutions. It suggests that this ‘arm’s length’ approach necessitates different grassroots organisational strategies in order to affect change but notes that these, alongside austerity agendas, are insufficient in the long term.
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- Diurlin, Lars, 1979-, et al.
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Cultural policy as a governmental proxy tool for improved health : The Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare’s collaborations with cultural workers 1970–1975
- 2021
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Ingår i: The International Journal of Cultural Policy. - : Taylor & Francis Group. - 1028-6632 .- 1477-2833. ; 27:5, s. 667-682
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article highlights cultural policy as a governmental proxy to address political matters beyond the cultural domain – here civil health – and the need to problematize and historicize ‘arts in health’ policies. The article centres on the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare’s collaborations with cultural workers 1970–1975, framed by three contextual developments: politicization of the cultural sector, call for innovative governmental information, and changing character of health information. Theoretically, the article draws from the field of cultural policy research, with an emphasis on historiographical perspectives. The result shows that despite interdependence, the collaborations were an arena where interests clashed. The main conflict lay in what art should seek to change for the better: society or its citizens? However, the conflicts were also due to a mixture of roles: the agency suddenly found itself a patron of the arts, and the cultural workers producers of governmental information.
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- Flisbäck, Marita, 1973
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Creating a Life: The Role of Symbolic and Economic Structures in the Gender Dynamics of Swedish Artists
- 2013
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Ingår i: International Journal of Cultural Policy. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1028-6632 .- 1477-2833. ; 19:4, s. 462-480
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article examines the prevalence of parenthood among professionally practising artists in Sweden. The overall aim of the article is to employ feministic and sociological perspectives to provide a theoretically-based understanding of the problems of balancing work and family life in the arts. Data are presented that reveals that female artists are more frequently childless compared to their male counterparts and women in the overall population. Male artists, however, are less frequently childless than men in general. The article develops a theoretical explanation focused on the effect of economic resource structures, which leave women artists to cope with lower incomes with which to pursue careers in the arts, and symbolic structures, which present creative work as difficult to combine with everyday domestic work. Given that motherhood continues to be associated with more comprehensive caring responsibilities than fatherhood, women are more frequently confronted with a choice between starting a family and pursuing their artistic calling.
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- Fredriksson, Martin
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A critical guide to intellectual property
- 2018
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Ingår i: The International Journal of Cultural Policy. - : ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD. - 1028-6632 .- 1477-2833. ; 24:4, s. 559-561
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- Fredriksson, Martin, 1972-
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Protecting the classics in Swedish copyright law : intellectual property as a cultural policy tool
- 2024
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Ingår i: The International Journal of Cultural Policy. - 1028-6632 .- 1477-2833. ; , s. 1-14
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article discusses §51 of the Swedish copyright law, known as “the protection of classics”, as a cultural policy intervention. §51 protects culturally significant works by deceased authors against reproductions that are considered offensive, even if the works are in the public domain and thus not protected by copyright. The article provides a brief overview of the origin of §51 and analyses potential cases of violation between 1960 and 2020, where the Swedish authorities threatened to sue for infringement against §51 but refrained for various reasons. It also considers a recent case, the Swedish Academy (Svenska Akademien) v. Nordfront, where §51 was, for the first time, tried in court. The cases involving §51 are diverse and the motivations for suing (or not) are different. However, taken together, these examples reflect changing cultural norms and values in Sweden during the twentieth century. This article will show how the value system that has shaped the protection of classics, and its subsequent use is aligned with a Swedish cultural policy discourse where priorities have shifted from protecting fine art against popular culture, to countering the negative consequences of commercialism, and to promoting multiculturalism and inclusion.
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- Frenander, Anders
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Review : cool capitalism
- 2011
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Ingår i: The International Journal of Cultural Policy. - : Routledge. - 1028-6632 .- 1477-2833. ; 18:1, s. 128-130
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- Hanell, Fredrik, 1979-, et al.
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The public library as a political symbol : a post-political reading of the demise of the consensus-model in Swedish cultural policy
- 2023
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Ingår i: The International Journal of Cultural Policy. - : Taylor & Francis Group. - 1028-6632 .- 1477-2833. ; , s. 1-15
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Recent use of public libraries as political symbols by the radical right in their challenge of the established consensus in Swedish cultural policy is part of an ongoing (re)politicization of the field of cultural policy. This paper frames this development as part of a post-political condition of Swedish cultural and library policy. Through an analysis of previous research, policy, and policy debates, a conceptual understanding of the post-political condition is offered. The paper also provides an analysis with empirical examples of how this condition unfolds in librarians’ accounts of everyday public library practices. This composite analysis furthers our understanding of the enactment of Swedish cultural and library policy and contributes to a broader discussion of the current challenges facing these policy fields following the rise of the radical right in several countries. The findings point to a need for more nuanced and ideological discussions concerning the relationship between politics and culture and where public libraries are situated between autonomy and democracy.
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- Hedling, Olof, et al.
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‘Why not make films for New York?’ : The interaction between cultural, political and commercial perspectives in Swedish Film Policy 1963-2013
- 2016
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Ingår i: International Journal of Cultural Policy. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1028-6632 .- 1477-2833. ; 22:5, s. 743-757
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- During the last two decades or so, film support, film policy and the public financing of audiovisual production in Scandinavia and particularly Sweden have undergone extensive transformation. In diverse ways, these changes can be seen as responses to globalization, to increased sub-national regional independence as well as to the emerging idea of nurturing ‘creative industries’ taking hold. They may similarly be seen as a result of developments through which the borders of the European nation state have become more permeable. In addition, Scandinavia, as a region, has found itself as a provider of a popular cultural phenomenon with surprising international appeal and unforeseen longevity in the form of ‘Nordic noir’. This has paved the way for mounting co-production within the region. Moreover, it has also meant that production funding from abroad has regularly been secured. At the same time as these developments, however, the longstanding tension between culture, commerce and national film is still very much reflected in ongoing arguments about cultural policy. For instance, suggestions such as that film policy’s foremost aim should be to support and help to establish a national film culture of ‘quality’ – a crucial concept in policy documents ever since the Swedish film reform of 1963 – has been a recurrent point of dispute throughout the years.In the proposed article, it is our intention to trace a trajectory of tensions, contrasts and oppositions between art, economics and commerce, policy and politics as well conflict and cooperation in a geographically marginal part of Europe ever since film support were first introduced in the 1960s. A rationale for going thus far back is that the initial reform apparently planted the first seeds of tension and conflict that is still discernible in the present situation.
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- Hylland, O. M., et al.
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Pandemic cultural policy. A comparative perspective on Covid-19 measures and their effect on cultural policies in Europe
- 2024
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Ingår i: The International Journal of Cultural Policy. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1028-6632 .- 1477-2833. ; 30:1, s. 81-100
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- To what extent did the Covid-19 pandemic affect the tools, priorities and organisation of cultural policies? And did the pandemic enhance the digital aspect of these policies? This paper compares pandemic cultural policy measures in seven European countries to answer these questions. The countries all installed a plurality of mitigating measures, combining grants and subsidies, compensation of lost income, income support and financial flexibility, creating a tendency towards cultural policy turning into economic policy, fiscal policy, and labour market policy. Cultural policies have not been fundamentally challenged by the pandemic, in the sense that it has affected the essential political tools, divisions of labour, or core goals. The responses have confirmed an existing policy structure or enhanced existing developments. The importance of a state-centred or a federalist cultural policy system has not been challenged in a substantial way. Secondly there is little evidence to show a general acceleration of national digital cultural policies.
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- Jakobsson, Peter, 1977-, et al.
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Media policy attitudes and political attitudes : the politization of media policy and the support for the 'media welfare state'
- 2023
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Ingår i: The International Journal of Cultural Policy. - : Routledge. - 1028-6632 .- 1477-2833. ; 29:4, s. 431-448
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Previous research has neglected media audiences’ and citizens’ opinions on how the media should be organized, how they should function in society and what individual, corporate and state responsibilities should be in regard to these questions. In an attempt to understand the relationship between citizens’ broader political attitudes and their attitudes on media-related politics and responsibilities, this study uses a survey (n = 2003) of the adult Swedish population to investigate the distribution of a range of media political attitudes in the contemporary space of political positions. The results reveal overlaps between the space of media political attitudes and the broader political space, where support for a Nordic ‘media welfare state’ corresponds to leftist and GAL-oriented values, while TAN-oriented and right-wing attitudes link to scepticism towards state interventionism in the media landscape. A small but highly opinionated right-wing and TAN-oriented segment displays laissez-faire views on media policy that are reflected in current policy propositions from right-wing political parties in parliament.
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- Jansson, Maria, 1968-
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The quality of gender equality : gender quotas and Swedish film governance
- 2019
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Ingår i: The International Journal of Cultural Policy. - : Routledge. - 1028-6632 .- 1477-2833. ; 25:2, s. 218-231
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Since 2000, the Swedish Film Institute has been tasked with increasing gender equality by distributing commissioner support more equally between women and men. While this has resulted in an increase in the number of women behind the camera, this study shows that the implementation has been hampered due to a representation of gender equality as being in conflict with the core values of the film governance regime. This representation reveals a lingering gender order and opens avenues for stakeholders to consider behaviour that ignores the gender equality goals as legitimate. It is further argued that the design of gender equality measures creates a conflict between the economic conditions of women’s film making and the possibility to tell stories based on gendered experiences.
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- Lindsköld, Linnéa, 1985-, et al.
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Changes in the governance of the reading subject : Swedish reading policy, c.1949–1984
- 2023
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Ingår i: The International Journal of Cultural Policy. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1028-6632 .- 1477-2833. ; , s. 1-15
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper analyses significant changes in the political rationality underpinning Sweden’s official reading policy between the 1940s and 1980s. Using official inquiry reports as empirical material and drawing on a discourse analytical method, we examine policy changes regarding ideal readers (what reading should result in) and administrative practices (what policy actions could be used) and the kinds of academic knowledge that was used to justify specific measures. It is found that official reading policy ceased to be limited to distributing literature and expanded to include active reading promotion. The replacement of sociological perspectives by cognitive viewpoints as constituting knowledge is also noted. It is concluded that changes in the political rationality had consequences for how the individual reader was construed, from a subject with the potential to change society to a subject who had to adjust to society. We argue that the cultivation of readers evident in reading policy constitutes a specific technique of governance not sufficiently considered in previous cultural policy research.
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- Lindström Sol, Sofia, 1981-, et al.
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Integrating cultural and social policy through family home visits in suburban areas of exclusion : examining the rationalities of Bookstart Göteborg
- 2021
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Ingår i: The International Journal of Cultural Policy. - : Routledge. - 1028-6632 .- 1477-2833. ; 27:7, s. 952-966
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article explores the rationality of the Bookstart home-visiting programme in Gothenburg, Sweden, concerning its general ambition to provide social inclusion through mixing cultural- and welfare policy. Through the Bookstart programme, librarians visit families in their homes to inform and instruct parents about reading books for their children to enhance language learning. The areas of the city chosen for intervention were described as socially vulnerable, typically with a majority of citizens born outside Sweden. The analysis outlines the rationality and technologies formed in a philanthropist tradition, targeting the moral potential of parenting and creating the subjectivities of the reading parent and child. Different welfare professionals employ slightly different discourses but all base their legitimacy on the benign power of knowledge about what is best for children in the city. Through this analysis, we contribute to the knowledge of how cultural policy is integrated into social policy in the contemporary advanced liberal welfare state. © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
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- Lindström Sol, Sofia, 1981-, et al.
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Mobilising non-participant youth: using sport and culture in local government policy to target social exclusion
- 2019
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Ingår i: The International Journal of Cultural Policy. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1028-6632 .- 1477-2833.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The role of sport and cultural practices in policy initiatives tends to be assessed in both cases in terms of their assumed social benefits. However, the areas of sport and culture are often understood separately in research. Through an analysis of interviews with key local policymakers and civil servants in two Swedish municipalities, the aim of this article is to explore how sport and culture are formed as means to promote social policy objectives regarding young people. In addition, we reflect on the political significance of this in relation to the development of local policy. The analysis demonstrates how a discourse of urban segregation and unequal opportunities underpins actions to mobilise non-participant and at-risk youth. This is achieved by establishing centres for sport and culture, and by enabling an educational approach which focuses on participation, empowerment and good citizenship. Reasons for mobilising practices involving culture and sport overlap, though each area of policy appears to be differently underpinned by discourses of enlightenment and conformity. Differences in emphasis between the discourses on sport and culture are discussed in relation to scientific discourse on the social utility of each policy area.
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- Möller, Per, 1978-
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Cultural policy beyond the economy: work, value and the social : by Deborah Stevenson, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 2023, 168 pp., £75.0 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-78897-466-0 (book review)
- 2024
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Ingår i: The International Journal of Cultural Policy. - : Routledge. - 1028-6632 .- 1477-2833. ; 30:2, s. 270-273
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- Nolin, Jan
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Cultural Policy by Proxy : Internet-based cultural consumption as a copygray zone
- 2014
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Ingår i: The International Journal of Cultural Policy. - : Routledge. - 1028-6632 .- 1477-2833. ; 21:3, s. 273-290
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article pursues the assumption that cultural policy has been disallowed regulation of cultural rights on the Internet. Instead, early initiatives on IntellectualProperty Rights have prescribed cultural policy viewpoints. Restrictions of cultural rights can be connected to gray areas of ethics and markets. The first aim of the article is to articulate concepts useful for discussing gray phenomenon given restrictions of cultural rights on the Internet. The second aim is to critically analyze the historical development of ‘copygray’ areas. These can also be positioned within the context of an evolving surveillance society. The rights of the state and of corporations to large-scale quantities of personal information have been generously enlarged through lack of restrictions relating to social media. Thus, while cultural rights become restricted, citizens are simultaneously deprived of rights to control personal information. Both of these developments can be situated within legal and ethical gray areas.
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- Power, Dominic, 1973-
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Culture, Creativity and Experience in Nordic and Scandinavian Cultural Policy
- 2009
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Ingår i: The International Journal of Cultural Policy. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1028-6632 .- 1477-2833. ; 15:4, s. 445-460
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The article examines the impact that the 'creative industries' discourse which originated in the UK has had in the Scandinavian and Nordic countries. It is argued that the diversity of the region and the various national policy contexts make it hard to identify any one legacy. The discourse does, however, fit neatly into wider discourses within economic and regional planning that emphasise the roles of cultural and creative activities in industrial transformation and the knowledge economy. It is suggested that despite difficulties defining both 'creative industries' and 'Scandinavia' there is a role for cross-border policies aimed at supporting commercial actors through the exploitation of regional economies of scale and scope.
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- Renko, Vappu, et al.
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Pursuing decentralisation : regional cultural policies in Finland and Sweden
- 2021
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Ingår i: The International Journal of Cultural Policy. - : Taylor & Francis Group. - 1028-6632 .- 1477-2833.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In both Finland and Sweden, decentralisation has traditionally been an essential cultural policy aim. This article explores how, by pursuing decentralisation, the regional jurisdictions have been presented with more possibilities to fulfil their purposes and in this way, gain legitimacy in cultural policy. Based on the analysis of political, legal, and administrative documents, three main periods of regional decentralisation in cultural policies are identified: regions as vehicles of welfare policy, regionalisation, and competitive regions. In both countries, national governments have promoted the regional level’s agency, and in doing so, potential institutional change in cultural policy. However, the increase of the regional level’s role has been limited by the countries’ strongly institutionalised cultural policy systems.
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- Rindzeviciute, Egle
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Making culture, changing society
- 2016
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Ingår i: The International Journal of Cultural Policy. - : ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD. - 1028-6632 .- 1477-2833. ; 22:2, s. 307-308
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- Rindzevičiūtė, Egle, et al.
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The international transfer of creative industries as a policy idea
- 2016
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Ingår i: The International Journal of Cultural Policy. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1028-6632 .- 1477-2833. ; 22:4, s. 594-610
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article examines the transfer of creative industries as a policy idea to Lithuania. Tracing the stages of the transfer and analysing its consequences in the local cultural policy field, this paper argues for the importance of studying cultural policy process. The findings reveal that the process of the international transfer of creative industries mattered, because it generated wider transformations in cultural policy field by having ambiguous effects on local power relations. The policy idea of creative industries opened the cultural policy field to new actors. As a result, competition for scarce state funding increased, but cultural organisations gained access to the European Union structural funds. In all, creative industries as a policy idea significantly transformed Lithuanian state cultural policy, in that it led to a reassessment of both the practices and identities of cultural organisations.
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- Sotamaa, Olli, et al.
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Public game funding in the Nordic region
- 2020
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Ingår i: The International Journal of Cultural Policy. - : Routledge. - 1028-6632 .- 1477-2833. ; 26:5, s. 617-632
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this paper, we explore the policies related to support structures surrounding national game industries, with focus on the three Nordic countries Finland, Norway and Sweden, and investigate what kind of context the Nordic welfare state model has provided for game development. The three cases illustrate how Nordic welfare state measures have interacted with the games industry over time. While the political ideals have been fairly similar, our study demonstrates how the objectives and practical means of state engagement have differed significantly. We argue that although the three countries all have support schemes of which game companies can take advantage, there are significant differences in the degree to which each individual country has organized government interventions and support. While the Finnish state has treated game development as an endeavour in business development, the regional Nordic game program and the Norwegian state has developed a cultural policy that primarily aims to protect the cultural heritage. The Swedish state has not established a tailormade policy directed towards game development but has a broad spectrum of general policies for supporting research and business development. We suggest that future research should investigate how the public funding is structured and how discourses are formulated around appeals for more public funding for the games industry.
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- Stengård, Malin, 1986-, et al.
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Funder and facilitator : Swedish development aid aimed at cultural heritage in Bosnia and Herzegovina 1995–2008
- 2019
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Ingår i: The International Journal of Cultural Policy. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1028-6632 .- 1477-2833. ; 25:7, s. 858-870
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The paper investigates the relationship between the Swedish development agency Sida and Cultural Heritage without Borders (CHwB), a facilitating organisation in the field of cultural heritage in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) following the Bosnia War. From 1995 to 2008 CHwB was the only NGO in BiH working to preserve cultural heritage, and was almost exclusively funded by Sida. From having been an organisation focusing on the restoration of historic monuments, CHwB transformed into becoming an NGO facilitating social and economic development. The paper suggests that CHwB gradually changed from having a very particular position of working with the pre- servation of an ethnically diverse cultural heritage with the aim of promot- ing reconciliation, to one where it needed to focus on reconstruction and its implications for economic development. By analysing a large number of key documents using Norman Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis this change is interpreted in relation to changes taking place within the land- scape of international aid and post-conflict recovery.
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- Tawat, Mahama
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Danish and Swedish immigrants’ cultural policies between 1960 and 2006 : toleration and the celebration of difference
- 2014
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Ingår i: The International Journal of Cultural Policy. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1028-6632 .- 1477-2833. ; 20:2, s. 202-220
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In the late 1960s, as non-Nordic immigrants became an important component of their immigration flows, despite their similar policy backgrounds Sweden opted for multiculturalism, while Denmark did not. Their policies diverged even further from the so-called migration crisis of the 1990s. This article compares and analyses Sweden and Denmark’s respective policies between 1960 and 2006, arguing that their policies effectively diverged in the late 1960s; Danish assimilation is constituted of the toleration or acceptance, albeit disapproving, of immigrants’ cultures. Swedish multiculturalism, by way of contrast, celebrates difference, holding that immigrants’ cultures are necessary for their well-being and that ethnocultural diversity enriches the national culture. However, both policies deemed some aspects of immigrants’ cultures unacceptable, in that they were looked upon as illiberal or repugnant. This study also contends that, alongside citizenship and national identity studies, Ministries of Culture’s policies are a relevant field of enquiry into states’ policies on immigrants’ cultures.
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- Tawat, Mahama
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The birth of Sweden's multicultural policy : The impact of Olof Palme and his ideas
- 2019
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Ingår i: The International Journal of Cultural Policy. - : Routledge. - 1028-6632 .- 1477-2833. ; 25:4, s. 471-485
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The breadth of Sweden's multicultural policy has left it as one of the few truly multiculturalist countries in the West. This exceptionalism is puzzling and has generated a lot of attention from scholars and the public alike. Using a policy process perspective, this article traces its process of adoption in the 1970s. It shows that the adoption of an official multicultural policy relied crucially on Olof Palme and his ideas in his role as an 'activist gatekeeper.' The article takes as illustration the country's first State Cultural Policy passed in 1974.
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- Lindqvist, Katja
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Public governance of arts organisations in Sweden : Strategic implications
- 2007
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Ingår i: International Journal of Cultural Policy. - : Taylor&Francis/Routledge, London. - 1028-6632. ; 13:3, s. 303-317
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The article investigates public governance of arts organisations in Sweden by examining the relationship between these public principals and arts organisations and by illustrating how this connection affects the strategic action of individual arts organisations. Two case studies provide the basis for theanalysis: Nationalmuseum, the national museum of older fine art and crafts located in Stockholm, and Edsvik konst och kultur, a kunsthalle, or gallery, located in the municipality of Sollentuna. The article concludes that public governance does affect strategic planning and action in the individual arts organisation by presenting it with opposing logics of control and evaluation and by creating economic and political vulnerability for the organisation through budget and management controls.
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- Rindzeviciute, Egle, 1978
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Post-Soviet transformation of Lithuanian state cultural policy: the meanings of democratisation
- 2012
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Ingår i: International Journal of Cultural Policy. - 1477-2833. ; 18:5, s. 563-578
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper presents a general overview of the process of the democratisation of cultural policy in Lithuania by exploring explicit arguments about democratisation in debates and policy documents in Lithuania (1988–2011). At the early stage of transformation (1988–1992), democratisation was envisaged as the administrative decentralisation of political institutions, particularly the Ministry of Culture, and as the introduction of democratic principles, such as freedom of speech and cultural self-regulation. More substantial meanings of democratisation were articulated in debates about ethnic diversity and social equality. The study reveals tensions between the values of high culture and pop culture and the unitary notion of Lithuanian national ethnic culture and the cultures of national minorities. At a later stage, the salience of the ethnic dimension decreased when the democratisation of cultural policy was conceptualised in relation to the knowledge economy, which required revision of the early post-Soviet confrontation between culture and its economic use.
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