Title: Making culture count : the politics of cultural measurement /
Authors: MacDowall, Lachlan, 1974-; Badham, Marnie, 1973-; Blomkamp, Emma, 1983-; Dunphy, Kim Frances,
Year: 2015
Subjects: Cultural policy.; Cultural awareness.; Arts and society; Arts and society.; Cultural awareness; Cultural policy; Media Tie-In.; Media Studies.; Society & social sciences.; Humanities.; POLITICAL SCIENCE Public Policy Cultural Policy.; SOCIAL SCIENCE Anthropology Cultural.; SOCIAL SCIENCE Popular Culture.
Abstract: 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.
Contents: Introduction: Making culture count / Lachlan MacDowall -- Part I Qualifying and quantifying cultural value: critical accounts of the history and politics of cultural measurement -- Introduction / Emma Blomkamp -- A critical history of cultural indicators / Emma Blomkamp -- Culture, value and commensuration: the knowledge politics of indicators / Guy Redden -- The politics of cultural statistics: from legitimisation to critique (france 1960-1990) / Vincent Dubois -- Growth and depression in Hayek's garden: the emotional language of accounting / Harriet Parsons -- Assessing the cultural impact of economics / Justin O'Connor -- The social life of cultural value / Dave O'Brien and Pat Lockley -- Part II. Making culture count in political contexts and discourses -- Introduction / Kim Dunphy -- Cultural measurement in international development: the need for capacity building in cultural statistics / José Pessoa --^