Title Making culture count : the politics of cultural measurement / edited by Lachlan MacDowall, University of Melbourne, Australia, Marnie Badham, University of Melbourne, Australia, Emma Blomkamp, Innovate Change, New Zealand, Kim Dunphy, Cultural Development Network, Australia

Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015 ©2015

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Description 1 online resource Series New Directions in Cultural Policy Research New directions in cultural policy research. Contents Introduction: Making culture count / Lachlan MacDowall -- Part I Qualifying and quantifying cultural value: critical accounts of the history and politics of cultural measurement -- Introduction / Emma Blomkamp -- A critical history of cultural indicators / Emma Blomkamp -- Culture, value and commensuration: the knowledge politics of indicators / Guy Redden -- The politics of cultural statistics: from legitimisation to critique (france 1960-1990) / Vincent Dubois -- Growth and depression in Hayek's garden: the emotional language of accounting / Harriet Parsons -- Assessing the cultural impact of economics / Justin O'Connor -- The social life of cultural value / Dave O'Brien and Pat Lockley -- Part II. Making culture count in political contexts and discourses -- Introduction / Kim Dunphy -- Cultural measurement in international development: the need for capacity building in cultural statistics / José Pessoa -- Creative accounts: reimagining culture and wellbeing by tapping into the global movement to redefine progress / Geoff Woolcock and Melanie Davern -- Making it real: measures of culture in local sustainability planning and implementation / Nancy Duxbury and Sharon Jeannotte -- Alternative indicators of well-being for Melanesia: cultural values driving public policy / Jamie Tanguay -- Heritage as a cultural measure in a postcolonial setting / José Antonio Gonzalez Zarandona -- Part III. Critical and creative approaches to cultural measurement practice -- Introduction / Marnie Badham -- Democratising cultural indicators: developing a shared sense of progress / Marnie Badham -- The metrics syndrome: cultural scientism and its discontents / Arlene Goldbard -- Accounting for art in international development: insights from artists' initiatives in Central America / Polly Stupples -- A holistic framework of evaluation for arts engagement / Kim Dunphy -- New approaches to cultural measurement: on cultural value, cultural participation and cultural diversity / Audrey Yue and Rimi Khan -- Cultural measurement on whose terms? Critical friends as an experiment in participant-led evaluation / Sophie Hope Summary This book is a collection of diverse essays by scholars, policy-makers and creative practitioners who explore the burgeoning field of cultural measurement and its political implications. Offering critical histories and creative frameworks, it presents new approaches to accounting for culture in local, national and international contexts Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. WlAbNL English Print version record Subject Cultural policy. Cultural awareness. Arts and society. Society & social sciences. Humanities. Media Tie-In. Media Studies. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. Arts and society Cultural awareness Cultural policy Form Electronic book Author MacDowall, Lachlan, 1974- editor, author. Badham, Marnie, 1973- editor, author. Blomkamp, Emma, 1983- editor, author. Dunphy, Kim Frances, editor, author ISBN 9781137464583 1137464585 9781349565399 1349565393

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