Systems, Bubbles, Fragments
How Society Challenges Arts Management and Cultural Policy
Societies and the reception of arts and culture have been studied by (cultural) sociology for many years. Pierre Bourdieu, Paul Gilroy, Antoine Hennion, Eva Illouz, Niklas Luhmann, Richard A. Peterson, Andreas Reckwitz or Gerhard Schulze and many more give examples for how societies can be de- and reconstructed in terms of artistic reception and production. Recently, both the analytical tools and modes to describe societies, and societies themselves, have become more and more fragmented, with social media accelerating this transformation. Emerging, isolated social “bubbles” are forming unconnected and parallel structures, and manifest – at the same time – social multivocality and diversity.
This fragmentation poses new challenges for arts and culture organizations and cultural policy. What role can arts organizations play in singularized societies? Do traditional civic ideals promoted by Schiller, Humboldt, and Dewey still hold true today, or have cultural organizations merely become a self-loving, self-absorbed folklore movement seeking to preserve high cultural inventory? How could, and should, arts and culture organizations change in order to avoid musealization and to create social resonance and relevance, especially in light of socio-demographic shifts? What role can cultural policy play in this transformation process?
This issue welcomes contributions from historical, cultural sociological, organizational theoretical, political scientific and interdisciplinary perspectives.
Submission Deadline: 1 March 2024
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Current Calls for Papers
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Artists’ Narratives in Cultural Policy and Management Research
Guest Editors: Simone Wesner, Birkbeck, University of London & Jane Woddis, University of Warwick
Submission Deadline: 1 June 2022
Artists shape policy and management processes integral to their career development and to their practice. As the main art producers, they are considered as decisive participants in artistic terms, but they remain side-lined in policymaking, and ...
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Intangible Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development with a Special Focus on the Performing Arts
Guest Editors: Prof. Dr. Tiago de Oliveira Pinto, UNESCO Chair on Transcultural Music Studies, University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar/Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany
Submission Deadline: 1 March 2023
This issue focuses on the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage and its manifold implications, especially in relation to environmental and sustainable development. We welcome research articles, case studies, and essays from sociology, cultural studies, and performance ...
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Non-Visitor Studies and New Audiences
Guest Editors: tbd
Submission Deadline: 1 September 2023
Audience and visitor studies are well established fields. Numerous journals and books address the audiences of museums, concerts, theaters, or film festivals. Research on non-visitors, however, hardly exists, although a large part of the population belongs ...
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Keywords
- aesthetics
- higher education
- cultural diplomacy
- career, professional role
- audience studies
- Business
- digitalization, digitization
- diversity
- empirical aesthetics
- entrepreneurship
- development, transformation
- ethics
- Evaluation
- festival
- film
- social change
- ideology
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- communication
- Concert
- creativity
- culture
- arts organizations, cultural organizations
- fincancing the arts
- cultural history
- cultural economy
- cultural policy
- cultural sociology
- audience development, art education
- arts administration, arts management
- cultural industry
- cultural sciences
- art
- arts research
- curating
- artists
- leadership
- management
- marketing
- market
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- methods development
- museum
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- organization
- law
- community arts
- state
- urbanism
- dance
- theater
- theory development
- tourism
- civil society, third sector