Making Culture Count : The Politics of Cultural Measurement /: The Politics of Cultural Measurement. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Lachlan MacDowall, University of Melbourne, Australia, Marnie Badham, University of Melbourne, Australia, Emma Blomkamp, Innovate Change, New Zealand, Kim Dunphy, Cultural Development Network, Australia.
• Editors: MacDowall, Lachlan, 1974-; Badham, Marnie, 1973-; Blomkamp, Emma, 1983-; Dunphy, Kim Frances
• Contents: Introduction: Making culture count / Lachlan MacDowall -- Part I Qualifying and quantifying cultural value: critical accounts of the history and politics of cultural measurement -- Introduction / Emma Blomkamp -- A critical history of cultural indicators / Emma Blomkamp -- Culture, value and commensuration: the knowledge politics of indicators / Guy Redden -- The politics of cultural statistics: from legitimisation to critique (france 1960-1990) / Vincent Dubois -- Growth and depression in Hayek's garden: the emotional language of accounting / Harriet Parsons -- Assessing the cultural impact of economics / Justin O'Connor -- The social life of cultural value / Dave O'Brien and Pat Lockley -- Part II. Making culture count in political contexts and discourses -- Introduction / Kim Dunphy -- Cultural measurement in international development: the need for capacity building in cultural statistics / José Pessoa -- Creative accounts: reimagining culture and wellbeing by tapping into the global movement to redefine progress / Geoff Woolcock and Melanie Davern -- Making it real: measures of culture in local sustainability planning and implementation / Nancy Duxbury and Sharon Jeannotte -- Alternative indicators of well-being for Melanesia: cultural values driving public policy / Jamie Tanguay -- Heritage as a cultural measure in a postcolonial setting / José Antonio Gonzalez Zarandona -- Part III. Critical and creative approaches to cultural measurement practice -- Introduction / Marnie Badham -- Democratising cultural indicators: developing a shared sense of progress / Marnie Badham -- The metrics syndrome: cultural scientism and its discontents / Arlene Goldbard -- Accounting for art in international development: insights from artists' initiatives in Central America / Polly Stupples -- A holistic framework of evaluation for arts engagement / Kim Dunphy -- New approaches to cultural measurement: on cultural value, cultural participation and cultural diversity / Audrey Yue and Rimi Khan -- Cultural measurement on whose terms? Critical friends as an experiment in participant-led evaluation / Sophie Hope.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (328 pages), (31 illustrations)
• Subjects: 306; Media Tie-In; Cultural policy; Cultural awareness; Arts and society; Media Studies; Society & social sciences; Humanities
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137464590; 1137464593
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