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| Id | 208 | |
| Author | Badham, M., | |
| Title | Cultural Indicators: Tools for Community Engagement? | |
| Reference | Badham, M. (2009). "Cultural Indicators: Tools for Community Engagement?" The International Journal of the Arts in Society 3(5). |
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| Link to article | https://doi.org/10.18848/1833-1866/CGP/v03i05/35525 |
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| Abstract | As our world becomes more heterogenous and experiences ongoing conflict, “Whose culture is valued?” is a crucial question. Traditionally, mainstream culture has been exclusive, dominated by the tastes of the powerful, manifesting in built environments, social interactions, and interpretation of history. Without understanding culture more broadly as “ways of life”, the potential to develop creative and resilient societies may be lost. Indicators attempt to measure progress, with respect to our goals and values: where we have been, where we are now, and where we anticipate going in the future. Post-industrial society has concerned itself not only with economic measurement, but now also social performance. Today, here are many notable efforts reflecting unique community values, community progress, promoting engagement and evidence based policy development. There are also numerous shortcomings in this field, including major conceptual challenges and the issue of statistics, which can be subject to various configurations and interpretation. This paper presents an overview of Cultural Indicators contexts: comparative community wellbeing frameworks based on government policy priorities (Australia, Canada), broad international goals for cultural development and human rights (UNESCO, OECD), and creative indexes of cities for marketing purposes (China, USA). Critical analysis will evaluate their conceptual frameworks, methods of engagement, intended audience, scope, collection of data, and interpretations of “culture”. The research suggests that there may be a more useful approach to cultural indicators. The paper is also interested in a number of emerging initiatives in which cultural indicators can be tools for community engagement and cultural democracy. The paper concludes with offerings of innovative research into catalytic engagement processes with underserved communities and future impacts on public policy. |
Traditionally, mainstream culture has been exclusive, dominated by the tastes of the powerful, manifesting in built environments, social interactions, and interpretation of history. the endorsement of these existing bench- marks suggests satisfaction and consensus regarding these mainstream values stemming from an ethno- centric ideology ultimately ignoring the existence of others cultures and multiple realities. the lens of cultural indicators can bring together these often disparate notions of cultural value local democracy and measurement progress. prospect- ive cultural indicators may provide new and innov- ative ways for articulating the values of a diversity of culture and expression through collaborative dia- logue regarding culture may be used as an inclusive policy-making strategy reflective of the values of everyday citizens. perhaps a new mandate of cultural indicat- ors could propose a method of postmodern content analysis that recognizes not only multiple social and political contexts but also acknowledges the preju- dices of the researchers and possibility of non-text based processes of interpretation by other participants oral storytelling image.
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