Cultural Policy - Science topic

Dianelkys Martínez-Rodríguez

Unpaid work, defined by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development as time spent doing routine housework, shopping for necessary household goods, child care, caring for the elderly and other household or non-household members, and other unpaid activities related to household maintenance, continues to exist.

These subcategories include unpaid informal caregiving, volunteering; unpaid domestic work; unpaid subsistence activities, unpaid family work, and unpaid work in paid workplaces. Thus, learning mobility, poverty, and well-being among the informally employed are likely. Gorana Krstić and Peter Sanfey analyze informal-sector employment in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BH) using panel data from the Living Standards Measurement Studies. They derive four main conclusions. First, there is significant labor market mobility in B&H, with education being an important factor in explaining movements from informal- to formal-sector jobs. Secondly, informal jobs are much more likely to suffer from poverty than formally employed people. Thirdly, earnings inequality is more pronounced in the informal sector than elsewhere. Fourthly, the informally employed report lower life satisfaction levels than those in almost all other groups in the labor market. Overall, they conclude that, while the informal sector may represent a vital coping strategy for many, the formal sector provides much better prospects for prosperity and well-being.

Sustainable development can be defined as progress that meets the needs of the present compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.".

Interesting topic....

Great project! Congratulation to the whole group!

I would approach such an issue starting from the actors that create foster and communicate tourism in the first place. What makes the (young) tourists decide where to go and what to do there? What strategies are in place that aims to attract tourists?

I think about the infamous Amsterdam case, we have now a generation of people who have been to the Netherlands so many times in their life without trespassing the Coffee Shop quarter.

Also, what is the role of the "new" media in tourists' decision making? My hunch is that Instagram and influencers in general play a paramount role in developing tastes and hence tourists' behaviours.

Another level of attention could be one of the local businesses. Do shops and entrepreneurs play a role in that? Jane Jacobs would say YES, and others such as Gehl architects say that retail plays a crucial role in the experience of a city/public space.

Let's talk more!

All the best,

Valeria

The round table is a great idea! I'll be happy to participate in it. Thanks a lot for this initiative.

Yes, of course, I've heard about these planned exhibitions.

I've know about that approximately since 2012, but... :)

I'm also planning an interview with Prof. D. Lortkipanidze and other specialists and I hope it will be successful.

Thank you again for your initiative.

sincerely, G.M.

Although not exactly intergenerational the following is an excellent article on succession planning for NPO's. I am currently studying fine arts nonprofit organizations and found this article full of helpful empirical data! I hope this helps!

Bozer, G., Kuna, S., & Santora, J. C. (2015). The Role of Leadership Development in Enhancing Succession Planning in the Israeli Nonprofit Sector. Human Service Organizations: Management, Leadership & Governance, 39(5), 492–508. https://doi-org.ucark.idm.oclc.org/10.1080/23303131.2015.1077180

Great topic Zayd,

I believe that mechanisms that help to point out cultural governance and urban sustainable development issues are a great way to bring the discussion to the table. Specially in the Global South context... I thing that in can help to:

At the same time digital tools have been only gaining relevance on the discussion.

I really like this collaborative research project that showcases issues (in other category) and taps on community knowledge :

Best

Thank you Mirna. I'll read it.

I work on starategic management and New Public Management in the cultural field with the context of sustainability development. Very difficult to find institutional excamples, in the NPM we have many.

I was working in the COST Acttion Investigating Cultural Sustainability before.

Best, Kasia

 Thanks a lot :-)

Though there are several methods, depending on the sample size you are assessing, in my perspective face to face interviews/questionnaires are generally feasible to get relevant data, using both focus groups or relevant parts oat the planning level.

As to the possibility of public participation, I think one important factor is whether or not people are organized.  Many have shown that individuals are less interested in or less likely to participate in planning activities such as public hearings than their organizations such as NGOs or homeowners associations (HOA).  When there are homeowners associations in the local area, they are more active in local planning activities.  Then, a question remains open: how will the renters' interests be represented in public particiaption in planning?  Should they be represented given their much higher mobility?  Should they rely more on "exit" than on "voice"?  Public participation is certainly a method for people to "voice" their preferences or knowledge on local affairs.

Yes there is need planning guidelines, housing construction standards that specify the minimum requirements for housing and also ensuring quality meeting requirements of all sectors appreciably

i could direct you to the Ghanaian case. kindly follow the link below.

Yeboah-Assiamah, Emmanuel. "Power to the People! How far has the Power Gone to the People? A Qualitative Assessment of Decentralization Practice in Ghana." Journal of Asian and African Studies (2014): 0021909614555349.

I send you an article and a book on Basque cuisine. They're written in Spanish, but are quite related to your research interests.

A good paper relevant to your inquiry is provided in the link below:

I think that, unfortunately, it is very hard for outsiders to help countries with poor, weak,  or conflicted institutions to develop better ones. The track record of foreign aid and similar innovations is rather poor. Western attempts to make a positive difference in the Arab Spring uprisings were frustrated in nearly every instance, to take one example. Another society's customs and institutions are hard enough for insiders to understand and are a near black box to outsiders. Even if outsiders' motives are pure, obviously not something to take for granted, they have a hard time knowing how to help efficiently. We need a deeper understanding of human behavior and the evolution of human institutions before we can have more than marginally effective methods for helping other societies, again not even to worry about purity of motives. Perhaps the best we can do at the moment is provide humanitarian assistance so as to keep people alive to try again. Western societies developed strong institutions that support prosperity and democracy over about a 500 year long period. The later developing countries are catching up faster than it took the original pioneers, witness Japan, Korea, China, and India. That is encouraging, but it would certainly be good to do better.

In the meantime Some of us in the West need to look after our own problems. I was in a meeting a couple of weeks ago in which US DOD funders were talking blithely needing to better understand failed states. I remarked that I might apply for a grant to study the US Congress!

See, for Example:

Gibson, C. C., Andersson, K., Ostrom, E., & Shivakumar, S. (2005). The Samaritan's Dilemma: The Political Economy of Development Aid. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press.

From anthropological aspects, see as below;

Aihwa Ong, Virginia R. Dominguez, Jonathan Friedman, Nina Glick Schiller, Verena Stolcke, David Y. H. Wu and Hu Ying, "Cultural Citizenship as Subject-Making: Immigrants Negotiate Racial and Cultural Boundaries in the United States [and Comments and Reply]" in Current Anthropology Vol. 37, No. 5 (Dec., 1996), pp. 737-762

Please have a look at this website on the EU funded research project Includ-Ed http://creaub.info/included/

Part of this project deals with characteristics of successful inclusive schools. The results are more than valuable for politicians to develop inclusive education.