Cultural Policy [Paperback]

David Bell and Kate Oakley survey the major debates emerging in cultural policy research, adopting an approach based on spatial scale to explore cultural policy in cities, nations and internationally. They contextualise these discussions with an exploration of what both culture and policy mean when they are joined together as cultural policy.

Drawing on topical examples and contemporary research, as well as their own experience in both academia and in consultancy, Bell and Oakley urge readers to think critically about the project of cultural policy as it is currently being played out around the world.

Cultural Policyis a comprehensive and readable book that provides a lively, up-to-date overview of key debates in cultural policy, making it ideal for students of media and cultural studies, creative and cultural industries, and arts management.

1. Introducing Cultural Policy  2. The Culture of Cultural Policy 3. The Policy of Cultural Policy  4. Urban Cultural Policy  5. National Cultural Policy  6. International Cultural Policy

For academic students, Cultural Policyshould become the standard introduction to the subject. Deeply informed and closely engaged with the complexities of the subject, but at the same time written with a lightness of touch and often dry humour, it makes for the ideal companion guide to the field. But the books achievements go beyond this, and it deserves a wider readership  cultural administrators, city government officials, arts funders, policy consultants and even practitioners will all benefit from what is an extremely valuable book.

- Tom Campbell, Independent consultant, UK, in Cultural Trends

This is a book whose time has come. My two favorite writers on cultural policy in a combo! At once adroit, skeptical, smart, original, and generous, David Bell al“$