Arts Management and Cultural Policy Research

by Paquette, Jonathan; Redaelli, Eleonora

• ISBN13: 9781137460912
• ISBN10: 1137460911
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-06-09
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Presenting concepts, knowledge and institutional settings of arts management and cultural policy research, this book builds on two assumptions that are simultaneously propositions. The first is that arts management research and cultural policy research evolve in an academic space that is very loosely connected, but nevertheless federated. The second is that we evolve in a field where there is a greater diversity of knowledge producers than it is often assumed. Practicing outside academia, many arts managers, policymakers, advocates, and other professionals still connect and mediate knowledge in spaces that are interconnected, and perhaps even more integrated than we would readily admit. This book offers a map, a representation of the concepts and spaces of knowledge production in the field. It constitutes an excellent introduction to students, and scholars and practitioners will find in it a renewed representation of the field and the seeds of an intellectual debate on our research community.

Author Biography

Jonathan Paquette is Associate Professor at the School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa, Canada. His current work focuses on cultural organizations, cultural policy and careers in the cultural sector. He was awarded the Roland-Parenteau Prize in 2011 from the Institute of Public Administration of Canada for his work on research in museums. Since 2013, he is Associate Researcher at the Centre for Cultural Industries of the University of Shenzhen, and adjunct Professor at the Culture and Leisure Industry Research Centre at the School of Public Administration at UIBE University in Beijing. He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society.

Eleonora Redaelli is Assistant Professor at University of Oregon, USA. She studies at Università degli Studi di Milano and at Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi. After working for public and private institutions in the cultural sector in Italy, she earned her PhD at The Ohio State University. She coordinated and taught in the Arts Management program at University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and in the fall of 2013 she joined the Arts & Administration program at University of Oregon. She specializes in cultural policy, cultural planning, and arts management education. Her works appear in International Journal of the Arts in Society; City, Culture and Society; Urban Affairs Review, Cultural Trends and Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society, Journal of Planning Education and Research, and Urban Geography.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Knowledge: Disciplines and Beyond
2. Academic beginnings: Arts Management Training and Cultural Policy Studies
3. Disciplinary Bridges: Functions of Management
4. More than Management: Organizational Perspectives
5. A Conventional Approach: Public Policy Research
6. Multidisciplinarity: Ideas, Institutions and Interests
7. On Paradigms: From Epistemology to Epistemic Cultures
8. Mapping the Field: Institutional Settings of Knowledge Production
Conclusion