Contradictions in Participatory Public Art: Placemaking as an Instrument of Urban Cultural Policy

This article addresses the current focus within urban cultural policy on using art as a tool in urban development. Based on theories of participation, democracy, and public art, the article sets out to investigate critically the concept of placemaking. The discussion is based on an analysis of the public art project Placemaking, which took place during 2015 in eight municipalities around Copenhagen in Denmark. I argue that, when used as a tool in urban development, participatory public art engenders contradictory encounters. These encounters challenge the cultural political effort to democratize art and culture.     

Cultural Policy and Subjective Well-Being in Mexico

This article compares the notions of subjective well-being—which has been underscored as an aim for public policy—and optimism, studied by Oliver Bennett as an implicit cultural policy. It will give an overview of the high level of subjective well-being in Mexico according to several recent surveys and consider the relation that culture and arts have with subjective well-being in different countries. This will help to frame the proposal that happiness and life satisfaction could be promoted in Mexico through arts management and cultural policy.     

Training for Cultural Production and Management in Brazil

This article aims to contribute to the field of arts management by identifying the need to make cultural production/management an established field of professional practice and training in Brazil, and the challenges of doing so. To accomplish this, we reviewed several publications and we present first a discourse on theoretical texts in relation to the idea of culture and systems of cultural production and then an analysis of arts management publications in Brazil with observations about this field of work. In this article, we address the current paucity of training opportunities of this kind, the extent to which these roles have yet to be professionalized, and indicate, in the conclusion, that this is a matter of increasing importance and concern for cultural policy in Brazil.     

The Mechanics of Cultural Diplomacy: A Comparative Case Study Analysis from the European Context

The National Institutes for Culture have not attracted much scholarly attention examining their managerial practices. The aim of this article is to explore how the state expresses its agency over the Cultural Institutes of six European countries: the UK, Germany, France, Spain, Sweden, and Greece. Agency presents varying modalities, making instrumentalism more multifaceted than has been implied so far. The authors are introducing here a framework of five “touchpoints” to capture and analyze instrumentalism in cultural diplomacy. Funding, agenda setting, evaluation, hierarchy, and appointment power constitute the typical system of interactions between the Cultural Institutes and their reporting authorities.     

清初一个开封犹太人宗教文化身份的认同--开封著名犹太人赵映乘考述

开封犹太人从儒业举的士子在清初犹太人中已形成相对数量的群体,他们循儒之途中所尊奉铑的汉俗和儒家主流文化对犹太族汉化的影响至关重要.在这些犹太人儒家士子中尤其以赵氏家族中的赵映乘最具代表性,其影响也最大,所以对其生平的考述亦可作为分析开封儒家士子在犹太人族群中的作用.用方志记载材料可以分析儒家主流文化以及汉俗文化对开封犹太人族群的影响.     

后殖民理论视野中东方民族文化的历史命运

后殖民理论揭露出从殖民时期到全球化时代西方对东方的隐蔽的文化霸权,东方民族的文化在西方的知识生产和文化渗透下,被扭曲被贬低,被掩盖被抹杀。东方民族也有对西方的文化抵抗,但力量是非常微小的,东方民族文化的历史命运在后殖民理论视野中是悲观和无奈的。在东方民族面对全球化时代新的一轮西方文化冲击时,东方民族应坚守自己的民族文化。     

毁损类文物犯罪的成因与立法完善

依照我国现行刑法规定,毁损类文物犯罪不是一个具体的个罪,而是类罪。它主要包括故意损毁文物罪、故意损毁名胜古迹罪、过失损毁文物罪、失职造成珍贵文物损毁、流失罪4个罪名。受经济利益驱使、人们文物保护意识淡薄、规制文物违法犯罪行为法律不健全等因素的影响,毁损类文物犯罪日益上升,给我国的文物安全保护带来了巨大威胁。立法的完善是有效防控犯罪的途径之一,针对我国毁损类文物犯罪的立法现状特点,应以宽严相济刑事政策为主旨,扩大刑法的入罪法网,合理设计量刑制度。     

"文化中断"理论对我国民族教育的启示

本文阐述了西方教育人类学"文化中断"理论的产生背景,并借用了其研究方法分析了我国少数民族教育中"文化中断"的特殊内涵,认为"文化中断"是民族教育发展过程中的一种自然现象,最后从教育学的角度指出了减少"文化中断"对民族教育负面影响的具体措施.     

试论水书的书写系统及其文化属性

水书是一种特殊的汉字系文字,其书写符号系统的主体在汉字基础上发展而成。水书的使用和发展与水族宗教关系密切,是一种较为典型的巫术文字。这一文化属性对水书书写系统的发展有着重要的影响。     

云南民族文化发展报告

在实地考察的基础上 ,作者对近年来云南民族文化发展的成就与经验进行了系统的梳理和总结 ,分析了云南民族文化发展面临的问题并提出了有针对性的对策和建议。文章认为 ,民族文化多样性是云南在全球化和可持续发展进程中具有突出的比较优势的宝贵资源 ,是云南实现全面、协调、可持续发展并最终能够在西部乃至全国后来居上的坚实基础。社会主义时期是民族文化多样性发展繁荣的时期 ,发展繁荣民族文化多样性是建设中国先进文化和实践“三个代表”重要思想在民族地区的具体体现。