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CULTURE AFTER CIVIL WARS AND DESTRUCTION OF VALUES: CAMBODIA – RESEARCH DIARY

This text is a compilation of entries from a research diary created during field research in Cambodia (summer 2012). The objective of the project was to strengthen the system of governance for culture in Cambodia, complying with international trends specifically regarding the UNESCO Convention on the Promotion and Protection of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions. The mission has tried to accomplish its goals using many research methods from observations to interviews, but also applying “action research methodology” by raising many questions, provoking expressions of needs and interest of local authorities as well as civil society and the professional sector in culture. The aim was to develop participative actions to enhance further development of ideas and concepts related to cultural development. This text is not an analysis, it is a research diary which documented interviews, visits, observation and other methods of collecting data, with first impressions about cultural situations and cultural potentials of Cambodia. As the expert task was to assist Cambodian Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts to prepare the grounds for development of cultural sector, paying special attention to development of performing arts (which in Cambodia include mostly traditional performing art forms) and crafts, this diary, although shortened, gives insight into crucial moments of the research mostly linked to policy discussions. The specific objectives which could be read “between the lines” were attempts of two researchers (Vesna Čopič and Milena Dragićević Šešić) to help the Ministry redefine the position and role of culture in society; to provide cultural policy recommendations for empowerment of cultural policy effectiveness; to identify institutional and human resources in order to enhance its creative potentials; to suggest reform of arts education and educational system in the country through inter-ministerial cooperation; and to provide recommendations for strengthening the sector – raising professionalism and entrepreneurialism through capacity building programs.

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THEATRALIZATION OF HISTORY OR THE WAY IN THE FUTURE – ZORICA JEVREMOVIĆ’S DRAMATIC WORK

У раду се говори о драмском стваралаштву Зорице Јевремовић, за које ауторка сматра да се уклапа у тренд који би могао да се назове политиком сећања. Та је политика супротстављена некој врсти политике заборава која је, у суштини, део званичне културне политике. Дело Зорице Јевремовић је експонент културне политике која долази „одоздо“, супротставља се етноидентитетној културној политици државе и заговара потребу интеркултурног дијалога. Књиге Зорице Јевремовић, “Четири предратне драме” и “Балада о девојачком оделу”, ауторка овог рада сагледава као неопходне за нову реконцептуализацију српске, уметничке, позоришне, институционалне сцене, али и и за реконцептуализацију самопредстављања.

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CULTURAL POLICY VS. GLOBALIZATION – DIVERSITY AGAINST UNIFORMITY

The article Cultural Policy vs. Globalization – Diversity against Uniformity explores the contemporary globalization flows as well as the nature and the extent of its implications on world cultures. The focus is set on studying cultural policy areas that aim to diminish globalization negative consequences, responsible for making uniform cultural values and patterns. Firstly, it engages in understanding the globalization phenomena, its origins and causal processes, as well as the relevant theoretical perspectives. The complexity of cultural diversity and its relation to uniformity, standardization, homogenization and universalism is also examined. In the light of theoretical approaches, further analyses reveals how the European Union and international organizations shape the global level of cultural policy-making by creating instruments whose purpose is to protect and promote the diversity of cultural expressions. The results of implementation of these instruments into local context is an issue addressed in the third part of the article via empirical analysis. A comparative analysis of policy priorities, goals, strategies, instruments and measures in the cultural field of four elected countries, Denmark, Spain, Canada and Serbia, enables the verification of initial hypothesis and allows us to revise the role of nation state in the contemporary globalized world. The article examines the nature of relationship between the forces that uniform and those that diversify cultural expressions, giving its final judgment on whether the cultural policy-making can stand equal against cultural globalization. 

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