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Fair Culture: A Key to Sustainable Development

Véronique Guèvremont, Maxime Mariage

Bonn: German Commission for UNESCO (2022), 74 pp.

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Afghanistan: August 2021. A Tentative Reassessment of Cultural Foreign Policy and Civil Society Support

Asiem El Difraoui, Caspar Berges

Stuttgart: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) (2021), 22 pp.

"[...] If Afghanistan is to avoid a renewal of civil war, there is no viable alternative to Taliban rule and Taliban dialogue. Engagement with the Taliban in terms of urgently needed humanitarian aid opens avenues for cooperation in the field of cultural foreign policy and civil society support. Her ... e, the Taliban are especially open to support in the educational sector. Education, including for women, is a widespread demand in Afghanistan, even in the rural areas. As a member of civil society stressed, the Taliban are not ready to accept political activities but seem so far result-oriented in what concerns practical improvements for the Afghan population. Under seemingly non-political activities, for example competitions about daily life concerns like waste or water management, independent thinking and the respect of human rights can still be fostered. Generally, activities can be promoted with Afghan and Islamic references acceptable to the Taliban mindset. Fostering women’s rights, for example, can be done by giving the examples of the wives of the prophet Mohammed and of the relative freedoms of women in Saudi Arabia and Iran, who have more rights than those under the previous Taliban regime. As one participant states “the only progressive ideas which can be ingrained in Afghan society need to be somehow referring to internal cultural heritage Afghan and/or Islamic”. In this context, a lot of venues can be explored. Herat, for example was a major cultural centre over centuries. Afghans know also very little of the significance of historically important Islamic cities like Bukhara or Samarkand in neighbouring Uzbekistan, despite the fact that a sizable proportion of the Afghan population are Uzbek. Even more significant is the fact that Afghans who are very attached to their religion know very little of the achievement of the golden age Arabo-Islamic culture in science like mathematics, geography, astronomy, medicine or architecture or literature. There are also some classical art forms through which we can engage with the Taliban, such as poetry, as well as opportunities in contemporary comedy, where a certain criticism can be voiced and tolerated. The interplay of new and traditional media also provides unique opportunities in terms of education and human rights. Here DW-TV, Radio and internet activities can play an important role. Independent initiatives should also be promoted. These can offer considerable opportunities to connect regional civil society actors, which for one of the interviewees is one of the most effective ways of engagement “for example, feminist groups of neighbouring countries which supported feminist groups in Afghanistan”. (Conclusion, page 17) more

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Resources of Hope? Creative Economy and Development in the Global South

Justin O'Connor

Stuttgart: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) (2019), 12 pp.

"This paper sets out to challenge the dominant narrative of the creative economy as a new option for developing countries. The much-vaunted growth rates proclaimed by UNCTAD’s Creative Economy Programme have slowed, and are seen to apply to a particular kind of manufactured good, as well as being ... more

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Culture 2030: Indicators

Paris: UNESCO (2019), 109 pp.

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Estudio comparativo de cultura y desarrollo en Iberoamérica: Estado de las políticas públicas y aportes para el fortalecimiento de las economías creativas y culturales

Félix Lossio, Mariela Noriega, Viviana Quea, Valeria Terrones

Madrid: la Ciencia y la Cultura (OEI) Organización de Estados Iberoamericanos para la Educación; Fundación Santillana (2016), 286 pp.

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Voice & Matter: Communication, Development and the Cultural Return

Oscar Hemer, Thomas Tufte (eds.)

Göteborg: Nordicom (2016), 266 pp.

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Indicadores UNESCO de cultura para el desarrollo. Resumen analítico de Perú

Lima: Unesco; Ministerio de Cultura Peru; Gobernio de Espana (2015), 44 pp.

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Developing Cultural Industries: Learning from the Palimpsest of Practice

Christiaan De Beukelaer

Amsterdam: European Cultural Foundation (2015), 192 pp.

"Christiaan scrutinizes existing concepts of cultural and creative industries, as applied in public policies in African countries and largely inluenced by programmes of intergovernmental development agencies. He then searches for empirical evidence of their true value for human development. He looks ... more

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Indicadores UNESCO de Cultura para el Desarrollo

Paris: UNESCO (2014), 140 pp.

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Creative Economy Report 2013. Special Edition: Widening Local Development Pathways

New York; Paris: UNDP; UNESCO (2013), 184 pp.

"This edition is “special” as it provides a rich body of evidence demonstrating local creative economy decision makers and stakeholders in action that did not exist before. The evidence and analysis are presented in two formats: in this printed report and in a new webdocumentary that accompanies ... more

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Strengthening the Creative Industries for Development in Mozambique

New York, Geneva: United Nations (2011), xiv, 95 pp.

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Strengthening the Creative Industries for Development in Zambia

United Nations (2011), xvi, 105 pp.

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Cultura y desarrollo: Un compromiso para la libertad y el bienestar

Alfons Martinell (coord.)

Madrid: Fundación Carolina; Siglo XXI Editores (2010), xi, 323 pp.

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Culture and Development: Action and Impact = Kultur und Entwicklung: Aktionen und Umsetzungen

Belgian Presidency of the EU Council (2010), 88 pp.

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Políticas culturales en la región andina

Lima: Comunidad Andina (2010), 222 pp.

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Industrias culturales, creatividad y desarrollo

Germán Rey

Madrid: Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID) (2009), 143 pp.

"En el libro que ofrecemos al lector se realiza un análisis detenido de la situación actual de las industrias culturales, sobre todo en la perspectiva de su influencia en los procesos de desarrollo, y se analiza lo que esta agencia se ha propuesto al definir a las relaciones entre cultura y desarr ... more

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Les pays en développement face à la société de l'information

Alain Kiyindou

Paris: L'Harmattan (2009), 267 pp.

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Kultur und Entwicklung: Eine Übersichtsstudie zu Schnittfeldern deutscher Akteure der auswärtigen Kultur- und Bildungspolitik und der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit

Daniel Gad

Stuttgart; Bonn: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa); Deutscher Entwicklungsdienst (DED) (2008), 156 pp.

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Estrategia de cultura y desarrollo de la cooperación española

Madrid: Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores y de Cooperación (2007), 69 pp.

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Comunicación sostenible y desarrollo humano en la sociedad de la información

Juan Carlos Miguel de Bustos

Madrid: Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID) (2006), 228 pp.

"La relación entre comunicación y cultura es un binomio indisoluble, buscar una fórmula equitativa en el perfeccionamiento del mismo, asumir que la participación constituye una de las dimensiones principales de la sociedad de la información; o que la planificación de objetivos en los países e ... more