Date: 2020
Type: Article
Cultural policies in cities of the 'global South' : a multi-scalar approach
International journal of cultural policy, 2020, Vol. 26, No. 6, pp. 711-721
MOLHO, Jeremie, LEVITT, Peggy, DINES, Nick, TRIANDAFYLLIDOU, Anna, Cultural policies in cities of the 'global South' : a multi-scalar approach, International journal of cultural policy, 2020, Vol. 26, No. 6, pp. 711-721
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Building on the literature on global cities and on the worlding of cities, the articles in this special issue chart how cities outside Europe and North America try to reinvent and rescale themselves using culture. They suggest that the fabric of urban cultural policy is embedded in multi-scalar power dynamics. First, the contributions in this special issue reveal the importance of circulating standards across borders in structuring narratives about urban history, heritage and identity, in conjunction with local actors’ interests. Second, the diffusion of hegemonic cultural policy models such as the “creative city” leads to logics of exclusion, gentrification, and has been met with resistance, which suggest that these models can be to the detriment of local residents, despite the progressive values they are often claim to promote. Third, this special issue points to the need to rethink the politics of cultural policy mobility and offers conceptual tools such as vernacularization to make sense of the ways in which urban elites navigate, negotiate and take advantage of circulating cultural policy models.
Additional information:
Published online: 05 October 2020
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/68878
Full-text via DOI: 10.1080/10286632.2020.1811256
ISSN: 1028-6632; 1477-2833
Publisher: Routledge
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