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| Author | Laaksonen, A., | |
| Title | Measuring Cultural Exclusion through Participation in Cultural Life. | |
| Reference | Laaksonen, A. (2005). Measuring Cultural Exclusion through Participation in Cultural Life. Presentation at Third Global Forum on Human Development: Defining and Measuring Cultural Exclusion. 17 – 19 January, 2005 Paris. |
Link to article | http://www.gsdrc.org/document-library/measuring-cultural-exclusion-through-participation-in-cultural-life/ |
| Abstract | The presentation outlines several case studies that have attempted to measure and address issues of cultural exclusion, including the Interarts Foundation’s research on cultural rights in the city, which resulted in the development of a Charter recognizing the cultural dimension of urban space and promoting participation, a sense of place, affiliation and belonging, and social cohesion and inclusion. This was based on a 60-item survey of residents that allowed them to rank different rights in order to guarantee a full cultural life. |
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| Culture appears to have a strong role in building social cohesion and how community members relate to each other. . | In advocating cultural rights, the crucial link is the relationship between those rights termed as cultural and other rights such as the right to education and development, and different freedoms in relation to the right to take part in cultural life. . | Furthermore, cultural policies based on cultural rights enable the art and culture sector to look for concrete implications in the relation between cultural practices and social cohesion and inclusion. . | Since the Universal Declaration, the right to participate in cultural life has been the subject of further development, and a number of international and national documents on cultural policies have referred to the positive effect of cultural participation on personal development and social cohesion. . | Participation in cultural life can then also be described as a universe of opportunities for people to simultaneously operate in different cultural climates and discourses. . | Features of access and participation in cultural life are not easily to measured but one of the possibilities is to construct theme areas based on the key elements of the Right to Take Part in Cultural Life. . | But more importantly, an enabling and proactive environment for access, participation and community action facilitates and fosters the sense of inclusion and enjoyment of rights, and at the same time the sense of responsibility towards the community itself. . | As cultural rights themselves remain difficult to encapsulate exhaustively in order to build universally applicable definitions, the right to take part in cultural life fosters the importance of access and promotion, and survival of cultures while noting the constant changes that cultures go through and the inherent dynamism and specificity of the cultural field in different formations. . | Difference and exclusion Difference and diversity are frequently motors of culture and cultural action. . | The results of the exercise emphasize elements of access and participation, and active contribution in forms of expression and identification in the city are fundamental to cultural rights. . | The Charter aimed at a formulation of cultural action and entitlement by recognizing the cultural dimension of urban space, generating the use of public space, and promoting participation, a sense of place, affiliation and belonging and social cohesion and inclusion. The process was based on the idea that city is a clear cultural space which is not necessary physical, and cultural groups were invited to define the elements necessary to the harmonization of the shared space. The basic principle of the exercise was that participation forms an integral part of cultural action and that the involvement of the civil society in the implementation, definition and categorisation of rights and regulations is fundamental. The exercise meant not only to the possibility of sharing the public space in a tolerant, equal and respectful manner but also the opportunity to participate in social, political and economic processes in order to contribute to the social construction ofthis shared space17 The methodology used in order to chart the needs, necessities and priorities that the local people and communities have, a questionnaire of roughly 60 items was used. . | The aims of the principle of the Right to Take Part in Cultural Life are to remove obstacles to the equal access to possibilities, opportunities and resources by all members of the community on equal bases without discrimination. . | Quite simplifying that would mean that people should have certain rights to guarantee their ability to express and consume, and have access to, culture of their own choice, and that without the right to participate in cultural life, people are unable to develop the cultural and social bonds that hold societies together. . | Cultural Rights as a Framework for Participation Cultural rights are not just a curiosity in terms of legal aspects of the regulation of culture and its goods but are becoming a central theme in many social actions and programmes. . | These rights are central to participation in cultural life and allow individuals and groups of people to follow, adopt of create a way of life of their own choice4 This gives the individuals the right to choose the culture they want to participate in and the authorities the duty to ensure that individuals are entitled to freely enjoy these rights and have access to cultural activities and services of their environment. . |
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