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Cultural policy regimes and arts councils. Thelongue duréeperspective, birth of the state, religious trajectories and national cultural policies

2021

The cultural policy orientation of European countries has usually been interpreted in the light of political ideological factors or the model of the welfare state. However, while these dimensions e...

The dark side of cultural policy: economic and political instrumentalisation, white elephants, and corruption in Valencian cultural institutions

2017

Cultural policy is usually assessed as a positive element for socio-economic development and therefore, its criticism is generally confined to poor implementation and discussion of its social effec...

Knowledge bases and regional development: collaborations between higher education and cultural creative industries

2016

This paper builds on the assumption that cooperation between higher education institutions (HEIs) and creative and cultural industries (CCIs) stimulates innovation and economic growth at the regional level. It further assumes that HEIs and CCIs hold different perspectives on their intention to cooperate with external actors and, thus, there is a need for joint arenas to develop and integrate knowledge and practices among stakeholders across academia and industry. With this rationale in mind, the paper’s main objective is to discuss how universities’ roles in the establishment and development of locally embedded CCIs change or evolve over time. Taking a process economics perspective and buil…

From Complement to Motor: The Changing Role of Leisure and Tourism in Local Development Strategies. The Case of the Recovery and Valorisation of Cult…

2012

In the Fordist society, the productive activity focused development strategies, considering the role of leisure and tourism as “complementary” productive activities. The consolidation of post-productivism since the decade of 1990s has caused profound changes in individual and collective values and priorities. These have seen the introduction of a radically different conception about the role of leisure and tourism in the vital programming and, consequently, in the strategies of companies, organisations and governments. This paper provides a discussion of the principles of local development and the, more and more, central function of leisure and tourism in regional development strategies, th…

Socio-spatial differentiation in transition: a preliminary comparative analysis of post-soviet St Petersburg and Riga

2020

Research into the socio-spatial dynamics in Central European cities is an important area of contemporary transition studies. Open issues in this domain range from defining a theoretical framework to data availability and methodological approaches. As to the former aspect, recent literature focuses on the hybrid nature of the post-socialist urban space, which underwent modernization in the conditions of globalization and economic liberalization; the earlier model of spatial development changed dramatically as a result. The multi-scalar and comparative approaches may shed new light on the complex patterns of urban socio-spatial differentiation and its post-Soviet dynamics. Growing regional so…

Cultural policies for sustainable development: four strategic paths

2017

In the Sustainable Development Goals adopted by the United Nations in 2015, the role of culture is limited. We argue that culture’s absence is rooted in the longue duree of interplay among theoreti...

Sociologìa del Turismo y el tiempo libre [Sociology of tourism and leisure time]

2017

Sports and safety management

2013

Sports and safety management, by Steve Frosdick and Lynne Walley, Oxford, Elsevier, Butterworth Heinemann, 2012, 336 pp., $57.95 (paperback), ISBN: 978-0-750-64351-1 The problem of hooliganism is g...

Filosofia Do Turismo: Teoria e Epistemologia

2013

Filosofia Do Turismo: Teoria e Epistemologia, by Alexandre Panosso Netto, Sao Paulo, El Aleph, 2011, 198 pp., $30.00, ISBN 978-8-576-57109-4 Taking advantage from the lack of studies regarding the ...

From Paris and Beijing to Washington and Brasilia: the grand design of capital cities and the early plans for Quezon City

2014

International audience; Political leaders have always sought to build monumental capitals, with earlier designs influencing those of later cities. The Western design that revolved around a central axis of power became evident in some Asian capitals, although cities in the Chinese cultural realm differed in shape but nonetheless had its own axis of power. This article provides a typology of capital cities and from this perspective it explores the design of the newly created capital of Quezon City in the late 1930s. Quezon City’s design embraced some design ideas from elsewhere, but it remained unique. However, the design was not realized entirely.