Cultura y políticas públicas después del diluvio. Las ciencias sociales y la refundación de la política cultural

Since its invention in the fifties, cultural policy has been the subject of analysis and reflection by the social sciences. Initially, social sciences adopted a critical point of view on the objectives and instruments of public action in the cultural sphere. An attitude that Social Science were losing and finally ended uncritically legitimizing the projects of economic and urban development based on culture. This paradigm is currently exhausted, first, by the excesses one vision instrumentalization of culture and, moreover, by a general collapse of the cultural system due to the economic crisis, lack of planning and evaluation and, because of the transition to digital paradigm. In this cont…