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The Cultural Turn in International Aid: Impacts and Challenges for Heritage and the Creative Industries book cover

1st Edition

The Cultural Turn in International Aid Impacts and Challenges for Heritage and the Creative Industries

Edited By Sophia Labadi Copyright 2020
280 Pages
by Routledge

280 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

280 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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The Cultural Turn in International Aid is one of the first volumes to analyse a wide and comprehensive range of issues related to culture and international aid in a critical and constructive manner. Assessing why international aid is provided for cultural projects, rather than for other causes, the book also considers whether and how donor funded cultural projects can address global challenges,... Read more

1. The Cultural Turn in International Aid? Setting the Scene



Part I: Definitions, approaches and discourses: International and regional perspectives



2. Creative Economy and Development: International Institution’s Perspectives



3. Culture in EU International Relations: between Discourse and Practice



4. Heritage Development: Culture and Heritage at the World Bank



5. UNESCO, Culture, Aid and Development in the New Millennium



Part II: National Policies and Ethnographies of International Aid for Culture



6. Whose tool for what purpose? The struggle for cultural industry infrastructure in Liberia



7. Behind the Facade of the Diplomacy of International Culture Aid



8. Life and Death of a Community Library: A Case Study in Micro-Development



9. Traditional Performing Arts Under the Influence of NGOs: Myth or Reality?



10. Blowing Hot and Cold: Culture-Related Activities in the Deployment of Australia’s Soft Power In Asia



Part III: Donors funded Cultural Projects and Global Challenges



11. Reconciliation through cultural heritage in the post-Yugoslav space: an apolitical endeavour



12. Reducing Disaster Vulnerability through Local Knowledge and Capacity



13. Heritage, Human Rights and Norwegian development collaboration: The Our Common Dignity Initiative and World Heritage



14. Clowns in Crisis Zones: the Evolution of Clowns without Borders International



Part IV: Conclusions



15. The Future of International Aid for Cultural Projects.



 



　

Biography



Sophia Labadi is Senior Lecturer and co-Director of the Centre for Heritage at the University of Kent in the UK.

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