Journal article
Greening cultural policy
International Journal of Cultural Policy, Vol.23(2), pp.174-185
2017
Abstract
This article focuses on greening cultural policy within a sustainable development context. We examine shortcomings of major public-policy responses to the ecological crisis, linking this to the ambivalent philosophical heritage of anthropocentric worldviews that underpin ideas about the relation of culture to non-human nature. This ambivalence is reflected by weak environmentalism in the cultural policy arena, exemplified by surprisingly non-green cultural platforms espoused by green political parties. Green thinking is further hampered by the widespread adoption of digitisation within cultural organizations, which we contextualise in the broader political economy of digital capitalism and the attendant myth that high-tech culture is a low emissions business. Green cultural policy necessitates intensive self-examination of cultural institutions’ environmental impact, at the same time these institutions deploy art, education, entertainment, sports, and news to raise awareness of ecological crisis and alternative models of economic activity. We cite the efforts of activist artists’ resistance against fossil fuel corporations’ sponsorship of arts and cultural organizations as a welcome provocation for greening cultural policy within cultural organizations and green political parties alike.
Details
- Title
- Greening cultural policy
- Authors/Creators
- R. Maxwell (Author/Creator)T. Miller (Author/Creator)
- Publication Details
- International Journal of Cultural Policy, Vol.23(2), pp.174-185
- Publisher
- Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
- Number of pages
- 12
- Identifiers
- 991005541237307891
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Arts
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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