Posts by Christiaan De Beukelaer
The Creative Economy and the Development Agenda
What happens when the ‘fast policy’ discourse of the ‘creative economy’ interacts with older policy practices and ideas?
Read MoreThe Social and Built Infrastructure of Cultural Policy
This paper explores how musicians and music workers make sense of the cultural policies that have shaped and will shape the built infrastructure (concert venues, clubs, etc.) they need.
Read MoreToward an ‘African’ Take on the Cultural and Creative Industries?
Can African countries simply copy and paste European models of cultural industries? This article argues not and calls for greater empirical and theoretical engagement with existing cultural industries across the continent.
Read MoreThe Public Should Help Academics to Define ‘Impact’
Many more of the general public should help to plot the course of research, argue Christiaan De Beukelaer and Jan Baetens
Read MoreCreating Malta Towards 2020 and Beyond
In December 2015, the Strategy Directorate of the Arts Council Malta published its Create 2020 Strategy. What do they intend to do and how?
Read MoreCultural Industries in Kazakhstan
This report on the cultural industries in Kazakhstan is published in three languages, and includes the first ever translation of the term ‘creative industries’ into Kazakh.
Read MoreCulture and Sustainable Development
UNESCO’s 2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions include explicit reference to sustainability. But what does the term mean in this text?
Read MoreGlobalization, Culture, and Development (2015, Palgrave Macmillan)
This edited collection outlines the accomplishments, shortcomings, and future policy prospects of the 2005 UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions.
Read MoreCulture In, For and As Sustainable Development
This report defines and describes the three roles of culture in sustainable development identified by the research network “Investigating Cultural Sustainability” and illustrates them with real-life cases.
Read MoreDeveloping Cultural Industries (2015, European Cultural Foundation)
In Developing Cultural Industries, Christiaan De Beukelaer offers a thorough exploration of how the concepts of cultural and creative industries are constructed and implemented across African countries and evaluates various policy implications of his findings.
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