New Directions in Cultural Policy Research : Making Culture Count.

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Introduction: Making Culture Count....Pages 1-5
Front Matter....Pages 7-10
A Critical History of Cultural Indicators....Pages 11-26
Culture, Value and Commensuration: The knowledge politics of indicators....Pages 27-41
The Politics of Cultural Statistics: from Legitimisation to Critique (France 1960–1990)....Pages 42-52
Growth and Depression in Hayek’s Garden: The Emotional Language of Accounting....Pages 53-66
Assessing the Cultural Impact of Economics....Pages 67-86
The Social Life of Cultural Value....Pages 87-103
Front Matter....Pages 105-108
Cultural Measurement in International Development: The Need for Capacity Building in Cultural Statistics....Pages 109-128
Creative Accounts: Reimagining Culture and Wellbeing by Tapping into the Global Movement to Redefine Progress....Pages 129-144
Making It Real: Measures of Culture in Local Sustainability Planning and Implementation....Pages 145-161
Alternative Indicators of Wellbeing for Melanesia: Cultural values driving public policy....Pages 162-172
Heritage as a Cultural Measure in a Postcolonial Setting....Pages 173-190
Front Matter....Pages 191-194
Democratising Cultural Indicators: Developing a Shared Sense of Progress....Pages 195-213
The Metrics Syndrome: Cultural Scientism and Its Discontents....Pages 214-227
Accounting for Art in International Development: Insights from Artists’ Initiatives in Central America....Pages 228-242
A Holistic Framework for Evaluation of Arts Engagement....Pages 243-263
New Approaches to Cultural Measurement: On Cultural Value, Cultural Participation and Cultural Diversity....Pages 264-281
Cultural Measurement on Whose Terms? Critical Friends as an Experiment in Participant-Led Evaluation....Pages 282-297
Back Matter....Pages 299-304