Full Description
How do Canadian provincial and territorial governments intervene in the cultural and artistic lives of their citizens? What changes and influences shaped the origin of these policies and their implementation? On what foundations were policies based, and on what foundations are they based today? How have governments defined the concepts of culture and of cultural policy over time? What are the objectives and outcomes of their policies, and what instruments do they use to pursue them?
Answers to these questions are multiple and complex, partly as a result of the unique historical context of each province and territory, and partly because of the various objectives of successive governments, and the values and identities of their citizens.
Cultural Policy: Origins, Evolution, and Implementation in Canada's Provinces and Territories offers a comprehensive history of subnational cultural policies, including the institutionalization and instrumentalization of culture by provincial and territorial governments; government cultural objectives and outcomes; the role of departments, Crown corporations, other government organizations, and major public institutions in the cultural domain; and the development, dissemination, and impact of subnational cultural policy interventions.
Published in English.
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Annexes
Foreword: The Complexity of Provincial and Territorial Cultural Policies
Fernand Harvey
Preface
INTRODUCTION
Provincial and Territorial Cultural Policy in Canada: Project Overview and Preliminary Observations
Diane Saint-Pierre and Monica Gattinger
CHAPTER ONE
Newfoundland and Labrador: Cultural Policy for a Post-Colonial Society
Ronald Rompkey
CHAPTER TWO
New Brunswick: Cultural and Institutional Duality
Nicole Barrieau and Daniel Bourgeois
CHAPTER THREE
Nova Scotia: Clientelism, Advocacy, and Provincial Support for the Arts and Founding Cultures
Jan Marontate
CHAPTER FOUR
Prince Edward Island: A Popular and Community-Based Cultural Policy
Daniel Bourgeois and Nicole Barrieau
CHAPTER FIVE
Québec and Its Cultural Policies: The Affirmation of a National Identity, a Distinct Culture, Creative and Open to the World
Diane Saint-Pierre
CHAPTER SIX
Ontario: From Reactive to Proactive Cultural Policy?
Monica Gattinger
CHAPTER SEVEN
Centres and Hinterlands: The Conflicted Heart of Cultural Policy in Manitoba
Joy Cohnstaedt and M. Sharon Jeannotte
CHAPTER EIGHT
Saskatchewan's Cultural "GDP": Geography, Demographics, and Politics and the Shaping of Cultural Policy
M. Sharon Jeannotte and Joy Cohnstaedt
CHAPTER NINE
Alberta: From Rags to Riches to Roulette
David Whitson, Karen Wall, and Donna (Cardinal) Gannon
CHAPTER TEN
British Columbia's Place-Based Approach: Policy Devolution and Cultural Self-Determination (1952-2009)
Catherine Murray and Alison Beale
CHAPTER ELEVEN
Cementing Nordicities: The Cultural Policy of the Northern Territories
Patrice A. Dutil
CHAPTER TWELVE
Canadian Cultural Statistics: Overview and Critique
Jean-Paul Baillargeon and Dick Stanley
CONCLUSION
Provincial and Territorial Cultural Policy in Canada: A Framework for Comparative Analysis
Monica Gattinger and Diane Saint-Pierre
Contributor Biographies
