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Adapting the wheel : cultural policies for Africa

Forbes, Delecia | 2010
  • Author(s): Forbes, Delecia
  • Publisher: Arterial network
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: cultural policy, reference materials, africa
This template for cultural policy development offers a new approach and a useful alternative instrument to assist African governments and their civil society partners in formulating cultural policies appropriate to their conditions.

Contemporary arts and culture discourse : African perspectives

Forbes, Delecia | 2010
  • Author(s): Forbes, Delecia
  • Publisher: Arterial network
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: arts, culture, cultural policy, africa, egypt, ghana, zimbabwe
A compilation of seminar papers on cultural policy commissioned by the Arterial Network early this [year]. The topics dealt with include Culture and Development, Creative Industries, Cultural Diversity, African [language]s and Climate Change.

Culture & conflict

Fortier, Amanda and Scarborough, Gregory | 2008
  • Author(s): Fortier, Amanda and Scarborough, Gregory
  • Publisher: The Power of culture]
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: culture, arts, conflict, ethnic conflict, cultural identity, social conflict, south africa, lebanon, sri lanka, colombia
The relation between culture and conflict in articles on music & stereo[type]s among the Roma community, billboards & social inequality in South Africa, cartoons & political upheaval in Lebanon, mixed media & intracultural collaboration in Sri Lanka, ceramics & cultural identity in Columbia.

Museums : agents of social change and development

Friess, Peter | 2008
  • Author(s): Friess, Peter
  • Publisher: International council of museums (ICOM)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: museums, social change
This ICOM news thematic [file] was published in relation to international museum day 2008 with the same theme. It contains 5 short articles with examples and views on the role of museums in the local, the regional and the virtual world.

Culture and art for sustainable development : declaration for a close co-operation between foreign cultural policy and development policy

Gad, Daniel | cop. 2006
  • Author(s): Gad, Daniel
  • Publisher: Pan y arte [etc.]
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: culture, arts, sustainable development, development policy, cultural co-operation, development assistance
In this declaration of a number of German development organizations and professionals have laid down guiding principles for an extended German cultural foreign policy.
 

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The portal provides access to selected free, full-text electronic documents on culture for development. It is also an unique entry point for all other internet resources, including newsletters, discussion groups, websites, bibliographic databases, and directories of organizations and projects. Our ambition is to provide (almost) full coverage on the aforementioned themes.