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Making Culture Count

The Politics of Cultural Measurement

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Editors:
  1. Lachlan MacDowall

    1. University of Melbourne, Australia

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  2. Marnie Badham

    1. University of Melbourne, Australia

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  3. Emma Blomkamp

    1. Innovate Change, New Zealand

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  4. Kim Dunphy

    1. Cultural Development Network, Australia

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Part of the book series: New Directions in Cultural Policy Research (NDCPR)

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Introduction: Making Culture Count

    1. Introduction: Making Culture Count

      • Lachlan MacDowall
      Pages 1-5

  3. Qualifying and Quantifying Cultural Value: Critical Accounts of the History and Politics of Cultural Measurement

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-10
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    2. A Critical History of Cultural Indicators

      • Emma Blomkamp
      Pages 11-26

    3. Culture, Value and Commensuration: The knowledge politics of indicators

      • Guy Redden
      Pages 27-41

    4. The Politics of Cultural Statistics: from Legitimisation to Critique (France 1960–1990)

      • Vincent Dubois
      Pages 42-52

    5. Growth and Depression in Hayek’s Garden: The Emotional Language of Accounting

      • Harriet Parsons
      Pages 53-66

    6. Assessing the Cultural Impact of Economics

      • Justin O’Connor
      Pages 67-86

    7. The Social Life of Cultural Value

      • Dave O’Brien, Pat Lockley
      Pages 87-103

  5. Critical and Creative Approaches to Cultural Measurement Practice

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 191-194
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    2. Democratising Cultural Indicators: Developing a Shared Sense of Progress

      • Marnie Badham
      Pages 195-213

    3. The Metrics Syndrome: Cultural Scientism and Its Discontents

      • Arlene Goldbard
      Pages 214-227

    4. Accounting for Art in International Development: Insights from Artists’ Initiatives in Central America

      • Polly Stupples
      Pages 228-242

    5. A Holistic Framework for Evaluation of Arts Engagement

      • Kim Dunphy
      Pages 243-263
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About this book

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.

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“Making culture count: The politics of cultural measurement focuses on the ever-present issues of measurement and meaning in articulating value for cultural policy practices and research. … I would recommend this book for cultural policy scholars and practitioners, and even activists, as well as those interested in indicators of the social and development studies more broadly.” (Susan Oman, Cultural Trends, April, 2016)

"Here is where the rubber meets the road: how much does a critical cultural studies have to contribute to the lived lives of culture? Read this insightful and diverse collection of perspectives on the theory, history and purposes of cultural indicators to find out. A pathway toward democratizing the measurement of culture and cultural value is mapped out in this excellent book. Scholars, policymakers and cultural activists alike will find these contributions both enlightening and useful." - Carole Rosenstein, George Mason University, USA

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Melbourne, Australia

    Lachlan MacDowall, Marnie Badham

  • Innovate Change, New Zealand

    Emma Blomkamp

  • Cultural Development Network, Australia

    Kim Dunphy

About the editors

Melanie Davern, University of Melbourne, Australia; Vincent Dubois, Institute for Political Studies, France; Nancy Duxbury, University of Coimbra, Portugal; Arlene Goldbard, Writer, USA José Antonio González Zarandona, University of Melbourne, Australia; Sophie Hope, Birkbeck College, London, UK; M. Sharon Jeannotte, University of Ottawa, Canada; Rimi Khan, University of Melbourne, Australia Pat Lockley, Educational Technologist, UK Dave O'Brien, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK Justin O'Connor, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia; Harriet Parsons, University of Melbourne, Australia José Pessoa, UNESCO Institute for Statistics, Canada; Guy Redden, University of Sydney, Australia; Polly Stupples, Massey University, New Zealand; Jamie Tanguay, John Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, USA; Geoff Woolcock, Wesley Mission, Australia;  Audrey Yue, University of Melbourne, Australia; EmmaBlomkamp, University of Melbourne, Australia; Marnie Badham, University of Melbourne, Australia; Kim Dunphy, Cultural Development Network, Melbourne, Australia; Lachlan MacDowall, University of Melbourne, Australia.

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