Promoting “Cultural Rights” for Inhabitants of Segregated Neighbourhoods in Cape Town, Salvador de Bahia, and Toulouse. From “Cultural Insurrection” to Epistemic Action
The notion of cultural rights, which has been defined and promoted in several internationally-recognized documents, has spread between states in a context where public authorities have tended to reformulate their discourse on “culture” and the “democratization of culture”. But to what extent do cult...
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Biens Symboliques / Symbolic Goods
2023
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| On-line přístup: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Shrnutí: | The notion of cultural rights, which has been defined and promoted in several internationally-recognized documents, has spread between states in a context where public authorities have tended to reformulate their discourse on “culture” and the “democratization of culture”. But to what extent do cultural policies take into account the capacity cultural minorities have for self-expression? Drawing on the study of three cultural movements operating in segregated neighbourhoods of Cape Town (South Africa), Salvador de Bahia (Brazil), and Toulouse (France), this article analyses the ability of such movements to spread ideas and practices that were previously the object of significant resistance from institutions, and to shift the model of resource redistribution in each town to favour the cultural expressions of racialized and ethicized groups. The first results of this international comparison show that, in the three cities studied, cultural activists run up against the same forms of institutional and ideological inflexibility, and that they mobilize convergent forms of action that are as much political as they are entrepreneurial. |
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