This book aims to present concepts, knowledge and institutional settings of arts
management and cultural policy research. It offers a representation of arts management and …

Based on a comparison of the French cultural practices surveys of 1981 and 2008, this
article shows a strong inertia of the structuring principles of the inequalities in cultural …

Immigrants, Literature and National Integration explores new means of facilitating
integration. Using the United Kingdom and Germany as case studies, and examining the …

French intellectuals have always defined themselves in political terms. They figure in
common representation as oppositional figures set against State and government. But …

Indigenous tourism has been described in many studies as having negative effects for the
local communities: for instance, it can exploit the natural and cultural resources and exclude …

Bourdieu's lasting influence in France as regards the sociology of art and culture is threefold.
First, more than thirty years after the publication of Distinction and ten years after the author's …

Various cultural intermediaries have become involved in connecting graffiti writing to the art
market. Through this case study, I shed light on the division of intermediation labour in the …

The field of “cultural policy” has acquired sufficient purchase internationally to warrant a
comparative global survey. This article examines questions that arise preliminary to such an …

This paper aims to show how in France, the synthesis of cultural policy and social concerns
throws up a number of tensions and pitfalls. These tensions are perhaps most acute …

The redevelopment and management of brownfield sites by grassroots cultural
organizations have been shown to have a transformative role on communities and cities …