Cultural Policy and Industries of Identity

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Falling Down Before the Divine Right of Experts? Exploring the significance of epistemic communities in multi-level governance arrangements

“…For example, the PLQ passed the Official Language Act 1974 to make French the only official language of the province in response to the aforementioned national act making Canada officially bilingual, while the PQ passed the Charter of the French Language in 1977 that extended the requirement to use French only in advertising and education (Guibernau, 2006). Numerous efforts were also made by both parties at reforming cultural and heritage policies, often inspired by pre-existing policies in France, which had been another common feature of Québec policymaking for a much longer period of time (Beauregard, 2018;Handler, 1988).…”

Oceanic imaginaries in film and development: lenses of collaboration

“…Secondly, there has been global acknowledgement of the importance of cultural practices (including cultural expression) in the development agenda (World Commission, on Culture and Development, 1996). There has been increasing attention to the preservation of heritage and performative cultures (Basu and Modest, 2014;Musteata, 2018;Lenao and Saarinen, 2015;Gordin and Matetskaya, 2011) and growing interest in cultural economies (Keser, 2016;Greeffe, Pfliger and Noya, 2005;Throsby, 2015;Beauregard, 2018). Some of this attention has been more focused on the instrumental impact of culture in development.…”