Naslov
Toward the New Public Culture

Autori
Katunarić, Vjeran

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u zbornicima skupova, cjeloviti rad (in extenso), znanstveni

Izvornik
Cultural Transitions in Southeastern Europe - Collection of papers from the course Managing Cultural Transitions: Southeastern Europe / Đokić-Švob, Nada - Zagreb : Institut za razvoj i međunarodne odnose (IRMO), 2004, 19-42

ISBN
953-6096-35-8

Skup
Cultural Transitions in Southeastern Europe

Mjesto i datum
Dubrovnik, Hrvatska, 09.05.2004. - 16.05.2004

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Poster

Vrsta recenzije
Nije recenziran

Ključne riječi
public culture; culture sector; cultural diversity

Sažetak
The public cultural sector represents the capability of a community to get different people into a common space of dialogue and co-operation by means of all forms of culture, i.e., patrician, plebeian or alternative. Currently, more and more heterogeneous people enter the public space and put their demands on it, especially in Europe. Such a development requires both conjoining and upgrading the capacities of cultural and other public policies in order to cope with the obstacles to such a process. The main obstacle comes with the outbreak of inter-communal conflict and violence. This is actually impeding the process of democratization in more than a hundred countries in the world, and also invalidates the achievements of public life in pre-conflict periods. Another obstacle to the growth of the public sector is caused by privatization on the basis of commercialization, which gains its momentum in the current shape of the globalization process. It amounts to a pressure on the public sector to downsize its institutional and spatial scope, particularly its competencies in the economy and management. This paper provides some arguments in favor of further growth of the public sector in culture, which may bring together different cultural stakeholders, various economic interests and a heterogeneous public into a common space of dialogue, cultural production and expressiveness. For this purpose, the concept of the “ new public culture” is propounded. It outlines, in terms of the ideal type, a host of different qualities needed for the further development of public infrastructure and policy, from building a continuum of public spaces to providing symbolic tools of cultural governance. In particular, it stresses the importance of cultural diversity and inter-communal dialogue as well as decentralized policy and (inter)regional cultural co-operation, as prerequisites for the further development of public culture, especially in peripheral areas of Europe, which cannot outgrow new centers by imitating the metropolitan areas.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Sociologija

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