UNESCO's 2005 Convention: from creative economy to culture as foundational
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2023
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O'connor, J.
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Bailey, C.
Charalambous, E.T.
Drion, G.
Charalambous, E.T.
Drion, G.
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Source details - Title: Cultural Governance: Current and Future European Perspectives, 2023 / Bailey, C., Charalambous, E.T., Drion, G. (ed./s), Ch.13, pp.232-252
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UNESCO’s Mondiacult conference in Mexico city, September 2022, sought to look back over forty years of culture and development and find a vision for the future. This chapter critically examines this retrospective but comes to a very different conclusion. The chapter suggests that we are now at an epochal turning point, for humanity and for culture, and that a new conceptual and imaginative framework is required. However, the continued hold of the ‘creative economy’ paradigm over cultural policy represents a real obstacle to this radical rethinking. Recent pronouncements from UNESCO and other lead policy bodies concern ‘culture as a global public good’ and culture being adopted a distinct sustainable development goal. The chapter argues that culture is essential for the achievement of sustainable development and its exclusion from mainstream development policy will hamper this project. However, at this moment, it is not at all clear how UNESCO understands ‘global public good’ and so could easily become absorbed into the creative economy paradigm.
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Copyright 2024 selection and editorial matter, Organization for European Programmes & Cultural Relations; individual chapters, the contributors
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