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Politiques culturelles en Europe: La problématique locale
Cultural policies in Europe: Local Issues
by Mario d'Angelo
Council of Europe Publishing, Strasbourg, 2000, 189 pp., ISBN 92-871-4325-0,
English version: ISBN 92-871-4326-9
This manual
presents the historical and cultural aspects of local issues in European
cultural policies. In the early eighties (Bremen Conference, 1983), the Council
of Europe underlined the role of local communities in European cultural
development and launched numerous projects addressing different aspects of this
issue. Life in local communities and culture are, in fact, at the crossroad of
two different themes: democracy and its interaction with local authorities and
culture in its interaction with identities and pluralism.
This manual
undertakes to present the complexity of the problems connected with local
cultural policies in Europe. It also tries to present and explain some examples
of similarities and differences, while following the main topic of the book -
the importance of culture for local communities, respecting their prerogatives
regarding identity, diversity, creativity and participation.
The book is
divided into four chapters and annexes. The first chapter gives a historical
background, while the second elaborates questions of urban communities as they
exist in today's Europe. The third chapter presents the role of culture in
local development and analyzes inter-sectoral relations between different
cultural, economic, social, educational and communicational aspects. The last
chapter is devoted to administration and cultural management at the local
level.
Extracts from
different studies and reports of the Council of Europe completed during this
period are included as annexes in the second part of the book and represent a
valuable resource for further research.
To order this
publication, please contact: Council of Europe Publishing, F-67075 Strasbourg Cedex, France, tel.:
+33 3 88 41 25 81; fax: +33 3 88 41 39 10; e-mail: publishing@coe.int; http://book.coe.fr
Cultural employment in Europe
by Andy Feist
Culture - Policy Note 8, Cultural Policies Research and Development Unit
Council of Europe Publishing, Strasbourg, 2000, 55 pp., ISBN 92-871-4385-4
This booklet
tries to shed some light on a broad range of issues around cultural employment
in Europe. It faces the challenge of addressing a sector that is increasingly
diverse, fluid and changeable. The author claims that it seems more defensible
to talk about a complex series of cultural labour markets rather than a single
market. The main issues addressed in this study are the general characteristics
of the cultural labour force in Europe, the factors that are changing the
cultural labour market and the consequences of that change, the role of policy
makers in supporting sustainable cultural sector employment, and several other
practical and theoretical aspects of theses problems. The cultural sector will
surely continue to grow and flourish in this century, and governments need to
pay due attention to stimulating sustainable employment. This will require a
multi-pronged and cross-governmental approach, which simultaneously tackles
issues of training provisions, equality of opportunity and post-training
development.
The author,
however, stresses that the overall availability of data remains unsatisfactory
and that some observations and comments had to be understated because it was
not possible to assess how prevalent they were across Europe.
For more
information, please contact: The Cultural Policies Research and Development Unit, Cultural Policy
and Action Department, Council of Europe, F-67075 Strasbourg Cedex, France,
fax: +33 3 88 41 37 82; e-mail: decsrdu@coe.int;
http://www.coe.fr
Cultural policy in action throughout Europe
Edited by Visibility DG IV in co-operation with the Cultural Policy and Action Department
Council of Europe Publishing, 2000, 34 pp.
The booklet Cultural
policy in action throughout Europe reports on the activities of the
Cultural Policy and Action Department of the Council of Europe. The first part
of the publication is entitled 'Developing Europe's cultural policies', and it
includes information on understanding culture and cultural policy, cultural
policy review programme, activities related to Central and Eastern Europe, as
well as general information about the Cultural Policies Research and
Development Unit.
The title of the
second part is 'Cultural challenges of contemporary society', and it includes
information about new technologies and their impact and application in
different cultural sectors.
'On-the-spot
activities: co-operation and networks' is the third part of this publication,
which presents the activities of the Council of Europe in supporting networks
and networking. The last part, 'Visions of Europe: Council of Europe art
exhibitions', gives a list of recently held exhibitions and those currently
planned by the Council of Europe.
Each chapter
contains a list of the most important web sites for the relevant topics.
This booklet is
also published in French, entitled Politiques
culturelles en action à travers l'Europe.
For more
information, please contact: Cultural Policy and Action Department, Council of Europe, F-67075 Strasbourg Cedex, France, fax: +33 3 88 41 37 82; e-mail: decsrdu@coe.int; http://culture.coe.int/clt/eng/eculture.html
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