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The Cultural Turn in International Aid: Impacts and Challenges for Heritage and the Creative Industr

The cultural turn in international aid? Setting the scene International aid: the White Man’s Burden?Cultural turns in international aid?Critical self-reflexive questioning References I: Definitions, approaches and discourses: international and regional perspectives Creative economy and development: international institutions and policy synchronization Institutional perspectives Implications: why definitions and demarcations matter ‘Development’: the struggle for influence In conclusion Notes References Culture in EU international relations: between discourse and practice Introduction Mainstreaming culture in EU policies in the Mediterranean 1995-2020 The case of two regional programmes: Euromed Heritage and Med Culture Reflections on EU policies and programmes involving culture and challenges Conclusions Notes References Heritage development: Culture and heritage at the World Bank Culture in sustainable development: “a constructive, constitutive, and creative role”Heritage development at the World Bank The development paradigm beyond the development banks References UNESCO, culture, aid and development in the new millennium Culture does not count for the millennium development goals Culture, a driver and enabler of development?Explaining failure Conclusion Notes References II: National policies and ethnographies of international aid for culture Whose tool for what purpose? The struggle for cultural industry infrastructure in Liberia The dream of the creative economy vs. the reality of cultural subordination Public/private expatriate worker Foreign institutional experts who believe in the transformative power of music Applying the creative economy discourse: the normative approach and the copyright problem PSDS strategy negotiation outcomes Being a tool The efficiency of telechargeurs Formalising the informal: enforcing copyright by integrating existing systems Telling them what they want Conclusion Notes References Behind the facade of the diplomacy of international culture aid Introduction The language and practices of international culture aid Gorée: a place of memory From Euro aid to Place de Europe Conclusion References Life and death of a community library: a case study in micro-development The fragmentation of aid in a global society Case study: a community library Small is beautiful?Micro-development of the future References Traditional performing arts under the influence of NGOs: myth or reality?Situation of traditional performing arts before the Khmer Rouge Emergence and development of NGOs in Cambodia and along the Thai-Cambodian border From intermediary to representative of performing arts Conclusions Notes References Blowing hot and cold: culture-related activities in the deployment of Australia’s soft power in Asia Australian ‘soft power’ in Asia: some generalities The 1990s: Australia’s soft power in Asia takes a cultural turn The 21st century: governments blowing hot and cold The Australia’s soft power in Asia today Conclusion: where to next?Notes References III: Donors funded cultural projects and global challenges Reconciliation through cultural heritage in the post-Yugoslav space: an apolitical endeavour Introduction Imposed reconciliation and internalized ethnonationalization: irreconcilable post-war political processes?Pinning down reconciliation efforts through heritage in the Western Balkans Conclusion Notes References Reducing disaster vulnerability through local knowledge and capacity Appropriateness of traditional technology for postearthquake reconstruction: the case of Gujarat, India Cultural sensitivity in post-disaster reconstruction: the case of Marathwada, India Reconciling safety and heritage values through resistance or resilience? The case of Kathmandu Valley, Nepal Lessons learnt Notes References Heritage, human rights and Norwegian development cooperation: the our common dignity initiative and World Heritage Introduction Heritage, human rights, and development cooperation Human rights and cultural heritage in Norwegian development cooperation Cultural heritage protection as a (Norwegian) field of cooperation The our common dignity initiative Lessons learned and concluding remarks Notes Clowns in crisis zones: the evolution of Clowns without Borders International Introduction The importance of playfulness and laughter Clowns without borders “You are the clowns that came here:” defining the crisis Partnerships Breaking the rules: the dead and dying Response to the global refugee crisis Funding Ethics Conclusion References The future of international aid for cultural projects The ‘new orthodoxy’ is back Lack of support Community Engagement vs international aid workers?Continued asymmetrical power relations What can be done? Possible ways forward Notes References

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The cultural turn in international aid? Setting the scene
Sophia Labadi International aid is often associated with humanitarian assistance. Humanitarian assistance is arguably the most visible aspect of international aid because it is often reported in the press. Images of planes full of basic necessities fill news reports as noticeable responses to natural...
(The Cultural Turn in International Aid: Impacts and Challenges for Heritage and the Creative Industries)
Cultural turns in international aid?
The cultural turn in international aid refers, in this volume, to three phenomena: first, the cultural turn in projects on economic development, second, the cultural turn in human development projects and finally cultural and heritage diplomacy. The cultural turn in economic development projects funded...
(The Cultural Turn in International Aid: Impacts and Challenges for Heritage and the Creative Industries)
National policies and ethnographies of international aid for culture
Whose tool for what purpose? The struggle for cultural industry infrastructure in Liberia Benjamin A. Morgan In this chapter, I will reflect on my experience in Monrovia 2010-2013 as an expatriate concert promoter participating in the local music industries,1 and the subsequent research in 2014...
(The Cultural Turn in International Aid: Impacts and Challenges for Heritage and the Creative Industries)
The future of international aid for cultural projects
This conclusion reflects on the overall aims of this volume and the different discussions conducted on whether a cultural turn in international aid has really happened and the forms that it may have taken. The first section discusses key issues which emerge from the previous chapters: the focus on economic...
(The Cultural Turn in International Aid: Impacts and Challenges for Heritage and the Creative Industries)
Feeding the Trojan Horse: International Aid Policies in support to NGOs (1990-2015)
Igor Pellicciari Background From the perspective of classical international relations, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have often been accused of acting as hidden agents of foreign states in their effort to protect their own national interests abroad and in particular when trying...
(Partnerships in International Policy-Making: Civil Society and Public Institutions in European and Global Affairs)
Politics of International Aid after the end of Bipolarism (Post-War and Post-Soviet Transitions)
Such a politically based approach to the idea of aid interventions requires a critical review of several other related aspects, such as: • the types of aid actors that interact in any intervention scenarios, both from the side of the donors and the recipients. This includes a great variety of implementing...
(Partnerships in International Policy-Making: Civil Society and Public Institutions in European and Global Affairs)
The International Aid to NGOs in Transition Scenarios
In this framework, designed in an era in which IAPPs are spreading through intervention in countries that are already developed, a large share of state-funded assistance has been channeled through the nongovernmental sector. While the amount of NGO assistance represents a smaller quantitative...
(Partnerships in International Policy-Making: Civil Society and Public Institutions in European and Global Affairs)
DEVELOPING AWARENESS OF HOW INTERNAL FACTORS IMPACT ON THE SELF
So far we have focused on how an awareness of our physical and emotional needs can help us to think more carefully about how we interact with others. Equally important and influential are more deeply rooted traits which come from our values and beliefs and how they affect our attitudes. Carl Rogers,...
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Cultural Measurement in International Development: The Need for Capacity Building in Cultural Statistics
Josi Pessoa Introduction True, there have been drastic global changes with regard to culture; demand for cultural products has increased significantly, market power has grown and become increasingly concentrated in a small number of multinational conglomerates, the legal and political institutions...
(New Directions in Cultural Policy Research : Making Culture Count.)
Philanthropy and International Aid
Philanthropy is one of the most profound examples of human altruism, whereby people donate their private goods to collective causes. Whether it is a donation of money to victims of a natural disaster or a collection of food donated to the local homeless shelter, charitable acts often serve a part of...
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