The Cultural Turn in International Aid: Impacts and Challenges for Heritage and the Creative Industries

ISBN-13: 9780367776992 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 264 str.

Sophia Labadi

Opis

The Cultural Turn in International Aid is one of the first volumes to analyse a wide and comprehensive range of issues related to culture and international aid. Assessing why international aid is provided for cultural projects, the book also considers whether and how donor funded cultural projects can address global challenges.

Spis treści

1. The Cultural Turn in International Aid? Setting the Scene

Part I: Definitions, approaches and discourses: International and regional perspectives

2. Creative Economy and Development: International Institution’s Perspectives

3. Culture in EU International Relations: between Discourse and Practice

4. Heritage Development: Culture and Heritage at the World Bank

5. UNESCO, Culture, Aid and Development in the New Millennium

Part II: National Policies and Ethnographies of International Aid for Culture

6. Whose tool for what purpose? The struggle for cultural industry infrastructure in Liberia

7. Behind the Facade of the Diplomacy of International Culture Aid

8. Life and Death of a Community Library: A Case Study in Micro-Development

9. Traditional Performing Arts Under the Influence of NGOs: Myth or Reality?

10. Blowing Hot and Cold: Culture-Related Activities in the Deployment of Australia’s Soft Power In Asia

Part III: Donors funded Cultural Projects and Global Challenges

11. Reconciliation through cultural heritage in the post-Yugoslav space: an apolitical endeavour

12. Reducing Disaster Vulnerability through Local Knowledge and Capacity

13. Heritage, Human Rights and Norwegian development collaboration: The Our Common Dignity Initiative and World Heritage

14. Clowns in Crisis Zones: the Evolution of Clowns without Borders International

Part IV: Conclusions

15. The Future of International Aid for Cultural Projects.

 

　

O autorze

Sophia Labadi is Senior Lecturer and co-Director of the Centre for Heritage at the University of Kent in the UK.