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Eriksson, Birgit; Rung, Mette Houlberg; Sørensen, Anne Scott

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“…Research into cultural centers has been rare, but there is growing interest in their organization, historical changes, participation and social function (Kangas, 2017;Bogen, 2018;Kulbok-Lattik, 2018;Eriksson et al, 2019;Järvinen, 2021;Pfeifere, 2022;. It has been found that the centers and their activities facilitate cultural democracy (Duelund, 2009), education, cohesion, and citizen participation-a key concept in cultural centers, but increasingly also in other cultural institutions and cultural policies (Kangas, 2017).…”

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“…Further, an important common feature of cultural centers is that both they and their activities facilitate cultural democracy (Duelund, 2009) and citizen participation. Participation, which is a malleable concept with many meanings and values attached (Carpentier, 2011;Eriksson et al, 2019), is one of the central concepts relating to cultural centers, cultural policies and sustainability.…”

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“…For instance, in Finland, cultural centers offer a multitude of cultural activities and cultural participation has been a key concept of Finnish national cultural policies, increasing equality and accessibility in society (Kangas, 2017). Participation in cultural centers was studied at a European level by the "RECcORD" research project (Eriksson et al, 2019(Eriksson et al, , 2020 and in a Danish context in the "DELTAG" project . Further examples of increasing interest in "participation" research include "Removing Barriers: Participative and Collaborative Cultural Activities Kuulto" action research in Finland (Kangas, 2017), in Danish and Finnish cultural centers (Järvinen, 2021), and also on the roles of, and challenges faced by, Estonian community houses (Kulbok-Lattik et al, 2021).…”

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Cultural sustainability and Estonian community houses

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Roosalu,

Saro

2024

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This article explores the role of Estonian community houses in supporting sustainable cultural development and the vitality of communities in a turbulent era of global change. It poses the following questions: (1) How do the representatives of community houses perceive their roles and challenges? (2) How does organizational agency and cultural policy (at national and sub-national level) contribute to cultural sustainability in the context of such disruptions? To answer the first question, in 2022 an online questionnaire survey targeting representatives of Estonian community houses was conducted. The article is based on quantitative and qualitative analysis of 126 responses. The second question provides historical, political, and cultural context to address the first. Estonian community houses, numbering 376 in operation today, are a unique network to study. In the nineteenth century, these cultural hubs became the basis for the system of non-formal life-long education, arts and culture, and later regulated and developed within the subnational politics of culture and education in the Estonian nation-state (1918–40), in the Soviet Union (1940–91), and in today's Estonia (1991–2023) as part of the European Union. The COVID-19 pandemic added a new set of disruptions. In this light, the continuity of the functioning of community houses, alongside their ability to adapt, becomes particularly important for both local communities and sustainable cultural development.

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