TY - JOUR
T1 - Cultural participation in Europe
T2 - Shared problem or shared problematisation?
AU - Stevenson, David
AU - Kann-Rasmussen, Nanna
AU - Balling, Gitte
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Europe has a ‘problem’; it is becoming a ‘less cultural continent’ as fewer Europeans are ‘engaging in cultural activities’. This conclusion has been reached due to the findings of the latest cross national cultural participation survey. This paper questions the existence of this ‘problem’ and instead suggests that there is a shared problematisation across Europe sustained by common discursive archaeology that employs various discursive strands in relation to a dominant institutional discourse. The argument is that the ‘problem’ of ‘non-participation’ legitimates a ‘solution’ that predates its emergence: the state subsidy of arts organisations. The paper recaps the comparable problematisations that the researchers have previously identified in the policy texts of their respective countries. It progresses to consider three distinct but interwoven discursive strands upon which the problem representation in both countries, and potentially across Europe, appears to rely.
AB - Europe has a ‘problem’; it is becoming a ‘less cultural continent’ as fewer Europeans are ‘engaging in cultural activities’. This conclusion has been reached due to the findings of the latest cross national cultural participation survey. This paper questions the existence of this ‘problem’ and instead suggests that there is a shared problematisation across Europe sustained by common discursive archaeology that employs various discursive strands in relation to a dominant institutional discourse. The argument is that the ‘problem’ of ‘non-participation’ legitimates a ‘solution’ that predates its emergence: the state subsidy of arts organisations. The paper recaps the comparable problematisations that the researchers have previously identified in the policy texts of their respective countries. It progresses to consider three distinct but interwoven discursive strands upon which the problem representation in both countries, and potentially across Europe, appears to rely.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - comparative cultural policy
KW - cultural participation
KW - Scottish cultural policy
KW - Danish cultural policy
KW - non-participation
KW - cultural participation surveys
U2 - 10.1080/10286632.2015.1043290
DO - 10.1080/10286632.2015.1043290
M3 - Journal article
SP - 1
EP - 18
JO - International Journal of Cultural Policy
JF - International Journal of Cultural Policy
SN - 1028-6632
ER -