Full Description
This book is a collection of diverse essays by scholars, policy-makers and creative practitioners who explore the burgeoning field of cultural measurement and its political implications. Offering critical histories and creative frameworks, it presents new approaches to accounting for culture in local, national and international contexts.
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 1. A Critical History Of Cultural Indicators; Emma Blomkamp 2. Culture, Value And Commensuration: The Knowledge Politics Of Indicators; Guy Redden 3. The Politics Of Cultural Statistics: From Legitimisation To Critique (France 1960-1990); Vincent Dubois 4. Growth And Depression In Hayek's Garden: The Emotional Language Of Accounting; Harriet Parsons 5. Assessing The Cultural Impact Of Economics; Justin O'Connor 6. 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 7. Cultural Measurement In International Development: The Need For Capacity Building In Cultural Statistics; Jose Pessoa 8. Creative Accounts: Reimagining Culture And Wellbeing By Tapping Into The Global Movement To Redefine Progress; Geoff Woolcock And Melanie Davern 9. Making It Real: Measures Of Culture In Local Sustainability Planning And Implementation; Nancy Duxbury And Sharon Jeannotte 10. Alternative Indicators Of Well-Being For Melanesia: Cultural Values Driving Public Policy; Jamie Tanguay 11. Heritage As A Cultural Measure In A Postcolonial Setting; Jose Antonio Gonzalez Zarandona PART III: CRITICAL AND CREATIVE APPROACHES TO CULTURAL MEASUREMENT PRACTICE Introduction; Marnie Badham 12. Democratising Cultural Indicators: Developing A Shared Sense Of Progress; Marnie Badham 13. The Metrics Syndrome: Cultural Scientism And Its Discontents; Arlene Goldbard 14. Accounting For Art In International Development: Insights From Artists' Initiatives In Central America; Polly Stupples 15. A Holistic Framework Of Evaluation For Arts Engagement; Kim Dunphy 16. New Approaches To Cultural Measurement: On Cultural Value, Cultural Participation And Cultural Diversity; Audrey Yue And Rimi Khan 17. Cultural Measurement On Whose Terms? Critical Friends As An Experiment In Participant-Led Evaluation; Sophie Hope
