The purpose is to explore the potentialities of this research trend both from a theoretical and an empirical point of view. There are different potential approaches that can be a matter of debate: the use of culture as political mobilization, the use of culture as an accommodation policy of diversity, culture as a way of interaction among citizens and immigrants. We will pay attention to several functions cultural that policies may play: as a way of political protest, as a driver of collective identity building, and also as a policy capable to fuel a common public culture. Case studies or comparative studies analyzing different cultural policy areas (festivities, music, museums, libraries, art, etc.), different cultural policy dimensions (planning, implementation, decision making, cultural communication), different approaches (democratization of culture, intercultural approach, participation, representation, citizenship, etc.) will be welcome.
We propose three levels of analysis, according to three types of actors involved.
- Level of Analysis 1: Institutions: cultural managers and policy makers.
- Level of Analysis 2: Cultural Agents: agents and cultural producers, professional managers.
- Level of Analysis 3: Citizenship: spectators and cultural consumers network of associations and civil society.
At the end we expect to have elements to frame diversity and cultural policy nexus, to identify some first key-questions, particular research lines and hypothesis to draw a first interpretative framework for further analysis.
