The Routledge Handbook of Global Cultural Policy covers the key perspectives and sets out the contours of the study of cultural policy. It brings together a diverse range of researchers whose work reveals how cultural policy expresses and realises common global concerns, dominant narratives, and geopolitical economic and social inequalities.

List of figuresList of tablesList of contributors1 Towards global cultural policy studies Victoria Durrer, Toby Miller and Dave O’BrienPART I Situating cultural policy2 Cultural policy in political science research Jonathan Paquette and Devin Beauregard3 Cultural economics, innovation and intellectual property Nicola C. Searle4 Sociology and cultural policy David Wright5 The relationship between cultural policy and arts management Victoria DurrerPART II Regulating cultural policy6 Regulating cultural goods and identities across borders J.P. Singh7 No exceptions: cultural policy in the era of free trade agreements Graham Murdock and Eun-Kyoung Choi 8 Intellectual property as cultural policy Siva Vaidhyanathan9 Cultural policy between and beyond nation-states: the case of lusofonia and the Comunidade dos Paises de Lingua Portuguesa Carla Figueira10 Cultural governance and cultural policy: hegemonic myth and political logics Jeremy ValentinePART III Rights and cultural policy11 Disabled people and culture: creating inclusive global cultural policies Anne-Marie Callus and Amy Camilleri-Zahra12 Minority languages, cultural policy and minority language media: the conflicting value of the 'one language-one nation' idea Enrique Uribe-Jongbloed and Abiodun Salawu13 Cultural policy in Northern Ireland: making cultural policy for a divided society Phil Ramsey and Bethany Waterhouse-BradleyPART IV Practice and cultural policy14 The art collection of the United Nations: origins, institutional framework and ongoing tensions Mafalda Dâmaso 15 Exporting culture: the Confucius Institute and China’s smart power strategy Tony Tai-Ting Liu16 From arts desert to global cultural metropolis: the (re)branding of Shanghai and Hong KongKristina Karvelyte17 Making cultural work visible in cultural policy Roberta Comunian and Bridget Conor18 Fringe to famous: enabling and popularising cultural innovation in Australia Mark Gibson, Tony Moore and Maura Edmond19 Inside out: the role of 'audience research' in cultural policies in the United States Jennifer L. Novak-Leonard20 Considering the second-order health effects of arts engagement in relation to cultural policy Rebecca Gordon-NesbittPART V Global issues, regional cultural policy21 Inequalities: when culture becomes a capital Laurie Hanquinet22 Cultural policy and creative industries Susan Luckman23 Too-explicit cultural policy: rethinking cultural and creative industry policy in Hong KongLouis Ho24 Cultural policy and mega-events Beatriz García25 The challenges of the new media scene for public policies George Yúdice26 Uniting the nations of Europe? Exploring the European Union's cultural policy agenda Kate MattocksPART VI Development and cultural policy27 The international politics of the nexus ‘culture and development’: four policy agendas for whom and for what? Antonios Vlassis28 Reimagining development in times of crises: cultural policies, social imagination, and the creative economy in Puerto Rico Mareia Quintero Rivera and Javier J. Hernández Acosta 29 Neoliberalised development of cultural policies in Taiwan and a case of the Taiwanese film industry in a creative industries model Hui-Ju Tsai and Yu-Peng Lin30 Uneasy alliances: popular music and cultural policy in the ‘music city’ Catherine Strong, Shane Homan, Seamus O'Hanlon and John TebbuttPART VII The nation state and cultural policy31 Cultural policy in India: an oxymoron? Yudhishthir Raj Isar32 From Cultural Revolution to cultural engineering: cultural policy in post-Revolutionary Iran Ali Akbar Tajmazinani33 K-pop female idols: culture industry, neoliberal social policy, and governmentality in KoreaGooyong Kim34 ‘Regeneration’ in Britain: measuring the outcomes of cultural activity in the 21st centuryPeter Campbell and Tamsin Cox35 Japanese cultural policy, nation branding and the creative city Tomoko Tamari 36 Cultural policy and the power of place, South Africa Rike SitasPART VIII Conclusions37 The light touch: the Nigerian movie industry in a low policy environment Jade L. Miller38 The political career of the culture concept Tony BennettIndex

‘This Handbook not only re-thinks and re-conceptualizes the dimensions of global cultural policy studies, but also documents up-to-dated policy cases from global north to global south.’ — Anthony Fung, Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Beijing Normal University'Research and scholarship in cultural policy has grown in recent years alongside a continuing expansion in the interpretation of the concept at a practical policy-making level. How do these developments play out in an increasingly globalised world? This volume brings together a wide range of original essays that consider the political, economic, sociological and cultural dimensions of cultural policy in a context of globalisation and international cultural relations. The contributors are drawn from a variety of disciplines, intellectual traditions and geographical origins. Based on a thoughtful division of the subject matter into coherent sections, and edited by acknowledged leaders in the field, the book will appeal to scholars, researchers and policy-makers concerned about culture and policy in international affairs today.' — David Throsby, Distinguished Professor of Economics, Macquarie University, Australia'A must-have for any arts and culture scholar, this book provides a walkthrough of the "weird, wired world" of cultural policies around the globe, plus a foundational survey of their roots, theories and practices, from the field’s chief protagonists' — Dr. Abigail Gilmore, Senior Lecturer, Arts Management and Cultural Policy, University of Manchester