Making Culture Count

The Politics of Cultural Measurement

  • Lachlan MacDowall
  • Marnie Badham
  • Emma Blomkamp
  • Kim Dunphy
Book

Part of the New Directions in Cultural Policy Research book series (NDCPR)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Introduction: Making Culture Count

    1. Introduction: Making Culture Count
      Lachlan MacDowall
      Pages 1-5

  3. Qualifying and Quantifying Cultural Value: Critical Accounts of the History and Politics of Cultural Measurement

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 7-10
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    2. A Critical History of Cultural Indicators
      Emma Blomkamp
      Pages 11-26
    3. Culture, Value and Commensuration: The knowledge politics of indicators
      Guy Redden
      Pages 27-41
    4. The Politics of Cultural Statistics: from Legitimisation to Critique (France 1960–1990)
      Vincent Dubois
      Pages 42-52
    5. Growth and Depression in Hayek’s Garden: The Emotional Language of Accounting
      Harriet Parsons
      Pages 53-66
    6. Assessing the Cultural Impact of Economics
      Justin O’Connor
      Pages 67-86
    7. The Social Life of Cultural Value
      Dave O’Brien, Pat Lockley
      Pages 87-103

  4. Making Culture Count in Political Contexts and Discourses

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 105-108
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    2. Cultural Measurement in International Development: The Need for Capacity Building in Cultural Statistics
      José Pessoa
      Pages 109-128
    3. Creative Accounts: Reimagining Culture and Wellbeing by Tapping into the Global Movement to Redefine Progress
      Geoff Woolcock, Melanie Davern
      Pages 129-144
    4. Making It Real: Measures of Culture in Local Sustainability Planning and Implementation
      Nancy Duxbury, M. Sharon Jeannotte
      Pages 145-161
    5. Alternative Indicators of Wellbeing for Melanesia: Cultural values driving public policy
      Jamie Tanguay
      Pages 162-172
    6. Heritage as a Cultural Measure in a Postcolonial Setting
      José Antonio González Zarandona
      Pages 173-190

  5. Critical and Creative Approaches to Cultural Measurement Practice

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 191-194
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    2. Democratising Cultural Indicators: Developing a Shared Sense of Progress
      Marnie Badham
      Pages 195-213
    3. The Metrics Syndrome: Cultural Scientism and Its Discontents
      Arlene Goldbard
      Pages 214-227
    4. Accounting for Art in International Development: Insights from Artists’ Initiatives in Central America
      Polly Stupples
      Pages 228-242
    5. A Holistic Framework for Evaluation of Arts Engagement
      Kim Dunphy
      Pages 243-263

About this book

Introduction

This book is a collection of diverse essays by scholars, policy-makers and creative practitioners who explore the burgeoning field of cultural measurement and its political implications. Offering critical histories and creative frameworks, it presents new approaches to accounting for culture in local, national and international contexts.

Keywords

Cultural policy Art and culture Cultural measurement Cultural indicators Evaluation Cultural development Evidence-based policy Cultural democracy Instrumentalisation International development Cultural heritage Cultural value Cultural statistics Wellbeing Community Citizen engagement community democracy emotion evaluation Nation participation politics statistics sustainability

Editors and affiliations

  • Lachlan MacDowall
    • 1
  • Marnie Badham
    • 1
  • Emma Blomkamp
    • 2
  • Kim Dunphy
    • 3
  1. 1.University of MelbourneAustralia
  2. 2.Innovate ChangeNew Zealand
  3. 3.Cultural Development NetworkAustralia

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-46458-3
  • Copyright Information The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2015
  • Publisher Name Palgrave Macmillan, London
  • eBook Packages Palgrave Media & Culture Collection
  • Print ISBN 978-1-349-56539-9
  • Online ISBN 978-1-137-46458-3
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