Implementing UNESCO's Convention on Cultural Diversity at the regional level: Experiences from evaluating cultural competence centers

Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

Authors

  • Diana Betzler

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.

Original languageEnglish
JournalInternational Journal of Cultural Property
Volume27
Issue number4
Pages (from-to)511-525
Number of pages15
ISSN0940-7391
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 01.11.2020

    Research areas

  • cultural diversity, cultural policy, evaluation, UNESCO
  • Cultural studies

Recently viewed

Activities

  1. Natural Resources Forum (Zeitschrift)
  2. Peak of the Assembly Lines? (Online) Songwriting Camps as Current Spaces of Individual and Collaborative Creativity
  3. Green IT & IT-for-Green - 2010
  4. "Crowds and Party" Reading Workshop with Jody Dean - 2019
  5. Plenary Speaker at the 2021 8th International Conference on Computing and Communication Technologies (WCCCT 2021) with a talk entitled: „A Real Application of Fuzzy Based Control Strategy for a Nonholonomic Car-Like Robot„, January 23-25, Dalian, China.
  6. 5th NECS Workshop on Cinematic Scale - NECS 2012
  7. Navigating Educational Ambidexterity: Exploring Leader-Member Exchange and Open Innovation
  8. Nominator
  9. Reactivity on a student-centered recording system – a video-based longitudinal study in primary education
  10. Art and Sustainability: Aesthetics of Complexity
  11. IDG Summit 2023
  12. Aesthetics of complexity, artists and resilient communities in urban anthropo-scenes
  13. Biodiversity and ecosystem functions in the public - views, misconceptions and misunderstandings
  14. Ansys High Frequency Simulation Conference - AHFSC 2013
  15. Electronics (Zeitschrift)
  16. UV photodegradation of trimipramine under different environmental variables and chemical nature of aqueous solution - biodegradation and LC-MSn characterization of the formed transformation products
  17. 2. Ludotopia Workshop 2011
  18. It Matters When You Do It – Issue Packaging in Multi-Issue Negotiation.
  19. Enriching Higher Education through community engagement: Networking for Sustainable Development
  20. De-Mystifying the Digital
  21. Institutional dynamics of affecting and being affected: The emotionalization of injustice and the threat of withdrawing the organizational identification
  22. Parliaments, Climate Change, and Intergenerational Justice
  23. Programme of Ecosystems Change and Society (Externe Organisation)
  24. 131st MLA Annual Convention 2016
  25. WSEAS Transactions on Computer Research (Fachzeitschrift)