Policies and Governance for Sustainability in the Cultural Management Context
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2021) | Viewed by 9977
Special Issue Editors
Interests: cultural policy; cultural management; cultural sustainability; cultural hybridity
Interests: cultural policy; cultural management; art activism, urban culture; cultural sustainability
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Without management and policy, sustainability is merely a word. How do we manage for sustainability, especially in the context of culture—sustainability’s fourth pillar (Hawkes, 2001)?
This Special Issue examines how governments, institutions, organizations, communities, and individuals contribute to sustainability through management and policy.
Our focus is on sustainability, broadly conceived; as more than the environment and preservation of natural resources. We are interested in culture-led sustainable development, sustainability of culture and cultural identity, of art/practice and expression, sustainability of arts/cultural organizations, how cultural sustainability endorses the sustainability of culturally or socially divided communities, and reflection on innovative ways to sustain economies through cultural and creative entrepreneurship and their challenges. We are also interested in the sustainability of cultural policy and management research models, methods, and theories, sustainability in the inherent relationships between arts/culture and the environment, environment as the basis for cultural sustainability, sustainability of artists’ life, work, and related issues. We invite research and reflection on how the delivery of arts and culture events, and support of arts/culture, may negatively affect sustainability. The key is how cultural management and policy (together or individually) figure into sustainability. Finally, reflections on cultural sustainability in crisis times, such as the Covid pandemic, are welcome.
Assoc. Prof. Constance DeVereaux
Prof. emerita Milena Dragicevic Sesic
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- cultural management
- cultural policy
- intersectionality
- sustainability in cultural management
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