Making Culture Count

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xviii

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2. Introduction: Making Culture Count

   1. Introduction: Making Culture Count

      • Lachlan MacDowall

      Pages 1-5

3. Qualifying and Quantifying Cultural Value: Critical Accounts of the History and Politics of Cultural Measurement

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-10

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   2. A Critical History of Cultural Indicators

      • Emma Blomkamp

      Pages 11-26

   3. Culture, Value and Commensuration: The knowledge politics of indicators

      • Guy Redden

      Pages 27-41

   4. The Politics of Cultural Statistics: from Legitimisation to Critique (France 1960–1990)

      • Vincent Dubois

      Pages 42-52

   5. Growth and Depression in Hayek’s Garden: The Emotional Language of Accounting

      • Harriet Parsons

      Pages 53-66

   6. Assessing the Cultural Impact of Economics

      • Justin O’Connor

      Pages 67-86

   7. The Social Life of Cultural Value

      • Dave O’Brien, Pat Lockley

      Pages 87-103

4. Making Culture Count in Political Contexts and Discourses

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-108

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   2. Cultural Measurement in International Development: The Need for Capacity Building in Cultural Statistics

      • José Pessoa

      Pages 109-128

   3. Creative Accounts: Reimagining Culture and Wellbeing by Tapping into the Global Movement to Redefine Progress

      • Geoff Woolcock, Melanie Davern

      Pages 129-144

   4. Making It Real: Measures of Culture in Local Sustainability Planning and Implementation

      • Nancy Duxbury, M. Sharon Jeannotte

      Pages 145-161

   5. Alternative Indicators of Wellbeing for Melanesia: Cultural values driving public policy

      • Jamie Tanguay

      Pages 162-172

   6. Heritage as a Cultural Measure in a Postcolonial Setting

      • José Antonio González Zarandona

      Pages 173-190

5. Critical and Creative Approaches to Cultural Measurement Practice

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 191-194

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   2. Democratising Cultural Indicators: Developing a Shared Sense of Progress

      • Marnie Badham

      Pages 195-213

   3. The Metrics Syndrome: Cultural Scientism and Its Discontents

      • Arlene Goldbard

      Pages 214-227

   4. Accounting for Art in International Development: Insights from Artists’ Initiatives in Central America

      • Polly Stupples

      Pages 228-242

   5. A Holistic Framework for Evaluation of Arts Engagement

      • Kim Dunphy

      Pages 243-263

This book is a collection of diverse essays by scholars, policy-makers and creative practitioners who explore the burgeoning field of cultural measurement and its political implications. Offering critical histories and creative frameworks, it presents new approaches to accounting for culture in local, national and international contexts.

• Cultural policy
• Art and culture
• Cultural measurement
• Cultural indicators
• Evaluation
• Cultural development
• Evidence-based policy
• Cultural democracy
• Instrumentalisation
• International development
• Cultural heritage
• Cultural value
• Cultural statistics
• Wellbeing
• Community
• Citizen engagement
• community
• democracy
• emotion
• evaluation
• Nation
• participation
• politics
• statistics
• sustainability

“Making culture count: The politics of cultural measurement focuses on the ever-present issues of measurement and meaning in articulating value for cultural policy practices and research. … I would recommend this book for cultural policy scholars and practitioners, and even activists, as well as those interested in indicators of the social and development studies more broadly.” (Susan Oman, Cultural Trends, April, 2016)

"Here is where the rubber meets the road: how much does a critical cultural studies have to contribute to the lived lives of culture? Read this insightful and diverse collection of perspectives on the theory, history and purposes of cultural indicators to find out. A pathway toward democratizing the measurement of culture and cultural value is mapped out in this excellent book. Scholars, policymakers and cultural activists alike will find these contributions both enlightening and useful." - Carole Rosenstein, George Mason University, USA

• University of Melbourne, Australia

  Lachlan MacDowall, Marnie Badham

• Innovate Change, New Zealand

  Emma Blomkamp

• Cultural Development Network, Australia

  Kim Dunphy

Melanie Davern, University of Melbourne, Australia; Vincent Dubois, Institute for Political Studies, France; Nancy Duxbury, University of Coimbra, Portugal; Arlene Goldbard, Writer, USA José Antonio González Zarandona, University of Melbourne, Australia; Sophie Hope, Birkbeck College, London, UK; M. Sharon Jeannotte, University of Ottawa, Canada; Rimi Khan, University of Melbourne, Australia Pat Lockley, Educational Technologist, UK Dave O'Brien, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK Justin O'Connor, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia; Harriet Parsons, University of Melbourne, Australia José Pessoa, UNESCO Institute for Statistics, Canada; Guy Redden, University of Sydney, Australia; Polly Stupples, Massey University, New Zealand; Jamie Tanguay, John Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, USA; Geoff Woolcock, Wesley Mission, Australia;  Audrey Yue, University of Melbourne, Australia; EmmaBlomkamp, University of Melbourne, Australia; Marnie Badham, University of Melbourne, Australia; Kim Dunphy, Cultural Development Network, Melbourne, Australia; Lachlan MacDowall, University of Melbourne, Australia.

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