Plural Values of Culture in Europe

Introduction

Arturo Rodríguez Morató

Selection criteria of case studies in phases 2, 3, and 4

Matías I. Zarlenga and Nancy Duxbury

Part 1

Chapter 01 Critical factors in shaping the parameters of cultural valuation in Europe

Arturo Rodríguez Morató, Matías I. Zarlenga, Victoria D. Alexander, and Oliver Peterson Gilbert

Chapter 02 Identifying values of culture

João Teixeira Lopes and Ole Marius Hylland

Chapter 03 Evaluative practices in action: Features, tensions, and resolutions

Paolo Ferri and Simone Napolitano

Chapter 04 Does value underpin cultural action? Policies, institutions, and society

Julien Audemard, Félix Dupin-Meynard, and Emmanuel Négrier

Part 2

Chapter 05 Redefining cultural valuation processes: A general reflection on possibilities in light of the UNCHARTED experience

Eszter György, Gábor Oláh, and Gábor Sonkoly

Chapter 06 Cultural strategic planning from the UNCHARTED perspective          

Giulia Fiorentini and Antonella Fresa

Chapter 07 New value perspectives in culture-led urban regeneration

Arturo Rodríguez Morató, Victoria Sánchez Belando, Mariano Zamorano, and Matías I. Zarlenga

Chapter 08 Promoting the plurality of values in cultural information systems

João Teixeira Lopes

Chapter 09 The challenges of recalibrating the values of culture in the cultural field: Key recommendations

Julien Audemard, Félix Dupin-Meynard, Emmanuel Négrier, Arturo Rodríguez Morató, and Matías I. Zarlenga

Biography

Arturo Rodríguez Morató, PhD in sociology, is a professor of sociology and director of the Centre for Culture, Politics and Society (CECUPS) at the University of Barcelona. He was the coordinator of the UNCHARTED project.

Nancy Duxbury, PhD in communication, is a principal researcher at the Centre for Social Studies (CES), University of Coimbra, Portugal, leading the interdisciplinary research line “Urban Cultures, Sociabilities, and Participation.”

Antonella Fresa is an information and communications technology expert, Director of Design and Implementation at Promoter S.r.l., and a contracted professor at the University of Pisa.

Gábor Sonkoly, PhD in history, is a professor of history at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, France.

Bringing together diverse perspectives, this book seeks to delineate a systematic research agenda and, more challengingly, to imagine future methodologies and approaches to decision-making that do not sweep the irreducible plurality under an economistic carpet. This is essential reading for anyone interested in value-based approaches to art and culture and in less reductive – and more democratic – forms of valuation.
Patrycja Kaszynska, Cultural Value Expert, Senior Research Fellow, University of the Arts London, UK.

Plural Values of Culture in Europe is an exceptionally ambitious and rare achievement. Bringing together the often disparate worlds of cultural production, consumption, and administration, it offers an analytically rigorous, empirically rich, and theoretically sophisticated account of cultural valuation -- one that is as policy-relevant as it is intellectually pathbreaking.
Vanina Leschziner, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto, Canada.

Plural Values of Culture in Europe situates values within more formalised regimes of valuation and evaluation whose inner complexities it explores by examining, inter alia, the grammars and methodologies governing their formation; and by examining the operation of these regimes across the relations between different actors in the processes through which cultural policies are formed and put into effect (constituency advocates and lobbyists, cultural sector professionals, politicians and bureaucrats). A landmark text, then, offering a rigorous counter to narrow economistic framings of the value issues that cultural policies need to engage with.
Tony Bennett, Emeritus Professor in Social and Cultural Theory, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University, Australia. Honorary Professor, College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University, Australia.

"All too often the value of culture is primarily seen in economic terms, as illustrated by concepts like creative economy or cultural industries.  Detailed studies from several countries demonstrate a far greater and nuanced richness of cultural values while suggesting how the potential of culture for society could be enhanced". Helmut K. Anheier, Senior Professor of Sociology, past President, Hertie School, Germany.