Belfiore, Eleonora (2006) Ubi maior, minor cessat : a comparative study of the relation between changing cultural policy rationales and globalization in post-1980s England and Italy. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.

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Abstract

This thesis presents a comparative study of cultural policy in Britain and Italy. It provides a historical reconstruction of the cultural, legal and administrative contexts for cultural policy-making in the two countries, with a view of highlighting how cultural policy priorities have changed over time. The discussion of the growing popularity, in Italy, of notions of the cultural heritage as an engine for local economic development and as a resource that can allow the government to find the resources it needs to finance infrastructural works is given particular emphasis. Indeed, this probably represents the most original contribution made to the field of cultural policy research, in that Italy is a much under-researched country, and extant literature in English is almost non-existent. The main argument that the discussion aims to substantiate is that, despite being rooted in very different cultural and administrative traditions, both the British and Italian cultural policy debates seem to display a growing popularity of an instrumentalist rhetoric, which justifies public subsidy of the cultural sector on the grounds of the alleged beneficial impacts of the sector in the social and economic spheres. The main contribution of the thesis to the current understanding of instrumental cultural policy is therefore to offer plausible explanations for this recent trend. The thesis argues that the current situation, both in Italy and the UK, can be best understood in the light of the global phenomenon of neo-liberal globalisation, and the tendency for policy-transfer between countries that it tends to promote.

Item Type:	Thesis (PhD)
Alternative Title:	Comparative study of the relation between changing cultural policy rationales and globalization in post-1980s England and Italy
Subjects:	C Auxiliary Sciences of History > CB History of civilization
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Culture and globalization, Great Britain -- Cultural policy, Italy -- Cultural policy, Great Britain -- Appropriations and expenditures, Italy -- Appropriations and expenditures
Official Date:	January 2006
Dates:	Date Event January 2006 Submitted
Institution:	University of Warwick
Theses Department:	Centre for Cultural Policy Studies
Thesis Type:	PhD
Publication Status:	Unpublished
Supervisor(s)/Advisor:	Bennett, Oliver
Sponsors:	Arts and Humanities Research Council (Great Britain) (AHRC)
Format of File:	pdf
Extent:	2 v. (452 leaves) : charts
Language:	eng

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