TY - JOUR

T1 - Implementing UNESCO's Convention on Cultural Diversity at the regional level

T2 - Experiences from evaluating cultural competence centers

AU - Betzler, Diana

PY - 2020/11/1

Y1 - 2020/11/1

N2 - This article deals with the question of whether regional cultural competence centers foster the diversity of cultural expressions and how the objectives of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization's (UNESCO) Convention on Cultural Diversity are implemented. By introducing the Convention on Cultural Diversity, the conditions of regional cultural policy governance, and the idea of regional cultural competence centers, a framework for evaluation is outlined. The evaluation of four regional cultural competence centers in the Swiss Central Region shows that fostering cultural diversity is complex and has many different approaches and effects. The final discussion concludes that principles such as interculturality, freedom, and access for all under the Convention on Cultural Diversity can promote a diversity of cultural expressions but that these criteria have to be set from outside - for example, by public funding institutions - so that regional actors implement them.

AB - This article deals with the question of whether regional cultural competence centers foster the diversity of cultural expressions and how the objectives of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization's (UNESCO) Convention on Cultural Diversity are implemented. By introducing the Convention on Cultural Diversity, the conditions of regional cultural policy governance, and the idea of regional cultural competence centers, a framework for evaluation is outlined. The evaluation of four regional cultural competence centers in the Swiss Central Region shows that fostering cultural diversity is complex and has many different approaches and effects. The final discussion concludes that principles such as interculturality, freedom, and access for all under the Convention on Cultural Diversity can promote a diversity of cultural expressions but that these criteria have to be set from outside - for example, by public funding institutions - so that regional actors implement them.

KW - cultural diversity

KW - cultural policy

KW - evaluation

KW - UNESCO

KW - Cultural studies

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85106158930&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1017/S0940739121000059

DO - 10.1017/S0940739121000059

M3 - Journal articles

AN - SCOPUS:85106158930

VL - 27

SP - 511

EP - 525

JO - International Journal of Cultural Property

JF - International Journal of Cultural Property

SN - 0940-7391

IS - 4

ER -