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Cultural Policy Critical Dictionary: Culture and Imaginings
The realm of cultural policy is one where many discourses meet, ranging from academic discourse to the direct exercise of public and entrepreneurial responsibilities. This concurrence makes this book especially valuable. It offers an organic comprehension of contemporary cultural policy under the dictionary form.
Each entry sends the reader to various aspects of this relevant field, by an abundant body of bibliographic references. It does not only give the meaning of the word or expression, but it includes a critical comment on its use.
This Dictionary also offers key elements of the debate on what is culture and on cultural policy as an ordered system of concepts and practices. This book was important in introducing systematic studies of cultural policy at Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil, and it has become a global reference in its field. The author revised it especially for its Spanish publication by Gedisa.
Even though the concepts in this dictionary are treated in depth and the author cared to consult the most relevant references in this field, the reader coming from such diverse areas like public heritage administration, political strategies design or cultural industries, will find these pages both useful and practical.
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