Nanna Kann-Rasmussen
Biographic Data
| ID | 5847209 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nanna Kann-Rasmussen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nanna |
| FAMILY NAME | Kann-Rasmussen |
| SIGNATURE | KANN-RASMUSSEN N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Copenhagen |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5025-6651 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Staying Relevant
This article examines cultural leadership in Denmark over a ten-year period (2013–2023), focusing on how leaders of publicly funded cultural institutions navigate changing conditions to secure legitimacy and maintain relevance. Drawing on 14 interviews and a focus group, the analysis combines institutional theory and pragmatic sociology to explore leaders' perceptions of their stakeholder environment and their strategies for legitimation. The fin…
Reframing instrumentality
This article examines how cultural policies focused on Democratisation of Culture and Cultural Democracy are affected by different public administration regimes, namely New Public Management (NPM) and New Public Governance (NPG). The NPM era saw a focus on performance measurement and goal setting in the pursuit of democratizing culture, while the NPG expects cultural institutions to take responsibility for widening access through projects involvi…
Paradoxical autonomy in cultural organisations
This article analyses the changing relationships between cultural organisations and their institutional environment. Cultural policy research has traditionally focused on a decline in the autonomy of cultural organisations with Pierre Bourdieu’s theories as an overarching theoretical framework. However, recent studies of public administration tell another story. It shows how relationships between cultural organisations and their institutional env…
The Collaborating Cultural Organization
The article studies the role of partnerships in Danish cultural organizations. The organizations face a legitimacy crisis. As a response they display openness to society. The article uses the theoretical framework of Orders of Worth and studies the role of the projective city in legitimation work. Openness and differentiated connections are necessary to maintain legitimacy for cultural organizations. The organizations frame their tasks as meeting…
Cultural participation in Europe
Europe has a ‘problem’; it is becoming a ‘less cultural continent’ as fewer Europeans are ‘engaging in cultural activities’. This conclusion has been reached due to the findings of the latest cross national cultural participation survey. This paper questions the existence of this ‘problem’ and instead suggests that there is a shared problematisation across Europe sustained by common discursive archaeology that employs various discursive strands i…
What is a non-user? An analysis of Danish surveys on cultural habits and participation
The article analyses a number of Danish surveys of cultural participation and discusses how they convey certain concepts of users and culture. It aims to develop a nuanced and contemporary picture of cultural participation and notions of the non-user. In doing that, we show a shift in how the user has been constructed through surveys undertaken from 1964. Furthermore, the article addresses the problem that participatory culture does not necessari…
Cultural participation in Europe
Europe has a ‘problem’; it is becoming a ‘less cultural continent’ as fewer Europeans are ‘engaging in cultural activities’. This conclusion has been reached due to the findings of the latest cross national cultural participation survey. This paper questions the existence of this ‘problem’ and instead suggests that there is a shared problematisation across Europe sustained by common discursive archaeology that employs various discursive strands i…
What is a non-user? An analysis of Danish surveys on cultural habits and participation
The article analyses a number of Danish surveys of cultural participation and discusses how they convey certain concepts of users and culture. It aims to develop a nuanced and contemporary picture of cultural participation and notions of the non-user. In doing that, we show a shift in how the user has been constructed through surveys undertaken from 1964. Furthermore, the article addresses the problem that participatory culture does not necessari…
Reframing instrumentality
This article examines how cultural policies focused on Democratisation of Culture and Cultural Democracy are affected by different public administration regimes, namely New Public Management (NPM) and New Public Governance (NPG). The NPM era saw a focus on performance measurement and goal setting in the pursuit of democratizing culture, while the NPG expects cultural institutions to take responsibility for widening access through projects involvi…
Paradoxical autonomy in cultural organisations
This article analyses the changing relationships between cultural organisations and their institutional environment. Cultural policy research has traditionally focused on a decline in the autonomy of cultural organisations with Pierre Bourdieu’s theories as an overarching theoretical framework. However, recent studies of public administration tell another story. It shows how relationships between cultural organisations and their institutional env…
What is a non-user? An analysis of Danish surveys on cultural habits and participation
The article analyses a number of Danish surveys of cultural participation and discusses how they convey certain concepts of users and culture. It aims to develop a nuanced and contemporary picture of cultural participation and notions of the non-user. In doing that, we show a shift in how the user has been constructed through surveys undertaken from 1964. Furthermore, the article addresses the problem that participatory culture does not necessari…
Cultural participation in Europe
Europe has a ‘problem’; it is becoming a ‘less cultural continent’ as fewer Europeans are ‘engaging in cultural activities’. This conclusion has been reached due to the findings of the latest cross national cultural participation survey. This paper questions the existence of this ‘problem’ and instead suggests that there is a shared problematisation across Europe sustained by common discursive archaeology that employs various discursive strands i…
The Collaborating Cultural Organization
The article studies the role of partnerships in Danish cultural organizations. The organizations face a legitimacy crisis. As a response they display openness to society. The article uses the theoretical framework of Orders of Worth and studies the role of the projective city in legitimation work. Openness and differentiated connections are necessary to maintain legitimacy for cultural organizations. The organizations frame their tasks as meeting…
Paradoxical autonomy in cultural organisations
This article analyses the changing relationships between cultural organisations and their institutional environment. Cultural policy research has traditionally focused on a decline in the autonomy of cultural organisations with Pierre Bourdieu’s theories as an overarching theoretical framework. However, recent studies of public administration tell another story. It shows how relationships between cultural organisations and their institutional env…
Reframing instrumentality
This article examines how cultural policies focused on Democratisation of Culture and Cultural Democracy are affected by different public administration regimes, namely New Public Management (NPM) and New Public Governance (NPG). The NPM era saw a focus on performance measurement and goal setting in the pursuit of democratizing culture, while the NPG expects cultural institutions to take responsibility for widening access through projects involvi…
Staying Relevant
This article examines cultural leadership in Denmark over a ten-year period (2013–2023), focusing on how leaders of publicly funded cultural institutions navigate changing conditions to secure legitimacy and maintain relevance. Drawing on 14 interviews and a focus group, the analysis combines institutional theory and pragmatic sociology to explore leaders' perceptions of their stakeholder environment and their strategies for legitimation. The fin…
Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Public relations (3 works) · Economics (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Management and Organizational Studies (2 works) · Media studies (2 works) · Political economy (2 works)