Abstract
The rationale and importance of critically examining the rising internationalisation of the practice and teaching of arts and cultural management is outlined in this introduction to the edited volume Managing Culture: Reflecting on Exchange in Global Times. This chapter calls for greater attention to be paid to the personal and social nature of arts and cultural management practice and the education and training that has come to professionalise and legitimise that practice, particularly in the context of international exchange. ‘Exchange’ occurs in specific projects, training and higher education activities and between individuals, communities (of identity and of practice), institutions and /or nations with different (and perhaps similar) values and perspectives. The chapter sketches the book’s approach to understanding ‘culture’, not only in its anthropological sense, but also in relation to artistic output, specifically the fine, visual and performing arts. However, it is how these come to play in the internationalising ‘culture’ of the field of arts and cultural management that is under particular scrutiny. In highlighting the new empirical work presented in the collection, the chapter questions who, what and how particular ‘cultural voices’ are represented through the administration and management of artistic output, thus positioning educators and practitioners of arts and cultural management as active agents in the now global politics of representation.
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The discipline itself is varyingly referred to as ‘arts management’, ‘arts administration’, ‘cultural administration’ or ‘cultural management’, depending upon the national context. In an effort to represent this variety in as brief a way as possible, we have employed the term ‘arts and cultural management’ throughout the book. In some instances, authors refer specifically to ‘arts management’.
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While acknowledging that referring to the uniqueness of different nations and peoples in this fashion is reductive to an extent, for the sake of clarity of our broader argument, we refer to the Global North West as encompassing North America, Europe and Australasia.
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Durrer, V., Henze, R. (2020). Introduction. In: Durrer, V., Henze, R. (eds) Managing Culture. Sociology of the Arts. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24646-4_1
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