Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables and Figures
- Acknowledgements
- An Introduction to Cultural Policy in the Polder
- A Well-Balanced Cultural Policy: An Interview with Minister of Culture Ingrid van Engelshoven
- 1 Legal Aspects of Cultural Policy
- 2 An International Perspective on Dutch Cultural Policy
- ‘A Subsidy to Make a Significant Step Upwards’: An Interview with Arjo Klingens
- 3 The Framing Game: Towards Deprovincialising Dutch Cultural Policy
- 4 Values in Cultural Policymaking: Political Values and Policy Advice
- An Exercise in Undogmatic Thinking: An Interview with Gable Roelofsen
- 5 Towards a Cultural Policy of Trust: The Dutch Approach from the Perspective of a Transnational Civil Domain
- 6 Dutch Media Policy: Towards the End of Reflective Diversity?
- ‘A More Holistic Approach to Problems’: An Interview with Hans Poll and Jacqueline Roelofs
- 7 Cultural Education Policy: Its Justification and Organisation
- 8 Culture for Everyone: The Value and Feasibility of Stimulating Cultural Participation
- ‘A Strong Field Needs Variation and Experimentation’: An Interview with Saskia Bak
- 9 The People's Palaces: Public Libraries in the Information Society
- 10 Cultural Policy at a Crossroads?: How the Matthew Effect, New Sociocultural Oppositions and Digitalisation Challenge Dutch National Cultural Policy
- ‘Production is Preceded by Talent Development’: An Interview with Sandra den Hamer
- Epilogue: A Systemic View of Dutch Cultural Policy in the Next 25 Years
- Overview of Dutch Ministers of / Secretaries for Culture and their most important Cultural Policy Documents
- Appendix: Facts and Figures on Culture and Cultural Policy in the Netherlands
- Authors’ Biographies
- Index
2 - An International Perspective on Dutch Cultural Policy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 December 2020
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables and Figures
- Acknowledgements
- An Introduction to Cultural Policy in the Polder
- A Well-Balanced Cultural Policy: An Interview with Minister of Culture Ingrid van Engelshoven
- 1 Legal Aspects of Cultural Policy
- 2 An International Perspective on Dutch Cultural Policy
- ‘A Subsidy to Make a Significant Step Upwards’: An Interview with Arjo Klingens
- 3 The Framing Game: Towards Deprovincialising Dutch Cultural Policy
- 4 Values in Cultural Policymaking: Political Values and Policy Advice
- An Exercise in Undogmatic Thinking: An Interview with Gable Roelofsen
- 5 Towards a Cultural Policy of Trust: The Dutch Approach from the Perspective of a Transnational Civil Domain
- 6 Dutch Media Policy: Towards the End of Reflective Diversity?
- ‘A More Holistic Approach to Problems’: An Interview with Hans Poll and Jacqueline Roelofs
- 7 Cultural Education Policy: Its Justification and Organisation
- 8 Culture for Everyone: The Value and Feasibility of Stimulating Cultural Participation
- ‘A Strong Field Needs Variation and Experimentation’: An Interview with Saskia Bak
- 9 The People's Palaces: Public Libraries in the Information Society
- 10 Cultural Policy at a Crossroads?: How the Matthew Effect, New Sociocultural Oppositions and Digitalisation Challenge Dutch National Cultural Policy
- ‘Production is Preceded by Talent Development’: An Interview with Sandra den Hamer
- Epilogue: A Systemic View of Dutch Cultural Policy in the Next 25 Years
- Overview of Dutch Ministers of / Secretaries for Culture and their most important Cultural Policy Documents
- Appendix: Facts and Figures on Culture and Cultural Policy in the Netherlands
- Authors’ Biographies
- Index
Summary
Cultural policy, like any other domain, does not operate in a vacuum. The international context of cultural policy is relevant from two perspectives. First, a comparison between policy systems and policy practice can shed light on the typical characteristics of national cultural policy. And second, the tension between national and international perspectives on culture plays a part within national cultural policy. This chapter explores both perspectives. It starts out by exploring the ways in which it may be viable to compare policy systems. It will do so first with regard to the systemic aspect of cultural policy by answering the question of how the Dutch system differs from other national cultural policies. Second, it will explore the role of national culture in Dutch cultural policy so as to determine the Dutchness of Dutch cultural policy. With regard to the latter, this chapter focuses on the role that national culture plays in Dutch international cultural policy, i.e. that part of cultural policy that concerns itself with international cultural cooperation and exchange as well as cultural diplomacy.
National Culture and National Cultural Policy
National culture has been a key feature of industrialisation and an engine of modernity. The formation of a national culture at the beginning of nation-states ‘helped to create standards of universal literacy, generalized a single vernacular language as the dominant medium of communication throughout the nation, created a homogeneous culture and maintained national cultural institutions, such as a national education system’ (Hall 1992: 612). The construction of a unifying national culture thus played a crucial role in the stability of the nation-state as regime throughout the world. But as a result of globalisation, the role of culture as a national identity layer has become less self-evident. As Zygmunt Bauman points out, three waves of migration led to a gradual degradation of the stability caused by the close connection between culture and nation-states (2011: 34). The first migration wave, which mainly occurred in the nineteenth century, consisted of two elements: an increase in emigration to the new continents and colonisation. The second wave occurred in the opposite direction: immigration (or remigration) from the former colonies.
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- Cultural Policy in the Polder25 Years Dutch Cultural Policy Act, pp. 67 - 84Publisher: Amsterdam University PressPrint publication year: 2018
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