Research Catalog

Title

Making culture count : the politics of cultural measurement / edited by Lachlan MacDowall, University of Melbourne, Australia, Marnie Badham, University of Melbourne, Australia, Emma Blomkamp, Innovate Change, New Zealand, Kim Dunphy, Cultural Development Network, Australia.

Publication

• Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
• ©2015

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Additional Authors

• MacDowall, Lachlan, 1974-
• Badham, Marnie, 1973-
• Blomkamp, Emma, 1983-
• Dunphy, Kim Frances

Description

xviii, 304 pages; 23 cm

Series Statement

New directions in cultural policy research

Subjects

• Arts and society
• Cultural policy
• Cultural awareness

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 -- A critical history of cultural indicators / Emma Blomkamp -- Culture, value and commensuration: the knowledge politics of indicators / Guy Redden -- The politics of cultural statistics: from legitimisation to critique (france 1960-1990) / Vincent Dubois -- Growth and depression in Hayek's garden: the emotional language of accounting / Harriet Parsons -- Assessing the cultural impact of economics / Justin O'Connor -- 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 -- Cultural measurement in international development: the need for capacity building in cultural statistics / José Pessoa -- Creative accounts: reimagining culture and wellbeing by tapping into the global movement to redefine progress / Geoff Woolcock and Melanie Davern -- Making it real: measures of culture in local sustainability planning and implementation / Nancy Duxbury and Sharon Jeannotte -- Alternative indicators of well-being for Melanesia: cultural values driving public policy / Jamie Tanguay -- Heritage as a cultural measure in a postcolonial setting / José Antonio Gonzalez Zarandona -- Part III. Critical and creative approaches to cultural measurement practice -- Introduction / Marnie Badham -- Democratising cultural indicators: developing a shared sense of progress / Marnie Badham -- The metrics syndrome: cultural scientism and its discontents / Arlene Goldbard -- Accounting for art in international development: insights from artists' initiatives in Central America / Polly Stupples -- A holistic framework of evaluation for arts engagement / Kim Dunphy -- New approaches to cultural measurement: on cultural value, cultural participation and cultural diversity / Audrey Yue and Rimi Khan -- Cultural measurement on whose terms? Critical friends as an experiment in participant-led evaluation / Sophie Hope.

Call Number

JFD 15-3838

ISBN

• 9781137464576
• 1137464577

LCCN

2015018581

OCLC

910090998

Title

Making culture count : the politics of cultural measurement / edited by Lachlan MacDowall, University of Melbourne, Australia, Marnie Badham, University of Melbourne, Australia, Emma Blomkamp, Innovate Change, New Zealand, Kim Dunphy, Cultural Development Network, Australia.

Publisher

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Copyright Date

©2015

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

New directions in cultural policy research

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

MacDowall, Lachlan, 1974- editor, author.

Badham, Marnie, 1973- editor, author.

Blomkamp, Emma, 1983- editor, author.

Dunphy, Kim Frances, editor, author.

Research Call Number

JFD 15-3838