Christiaan De Beukelaer
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 640413 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Christiaan De Beukelaer |
| PRENOMES | Christiaan |
| SOBRENOME | De Beukelaer |
| ASSINATURA | DE BEUKELAER C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9045-9979 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 39 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 81 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2012 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Sailing Through Time
This article examines the Pacific Blue Shipping Partnership (PBSP), an ambitious initiative aimed at decarbonising maritime transport across Oceania. The study explores the cultural, historical and technological aspects of wind‐propelled shipping in the Pacific. Highlighting the recent delivery of the SV Juren Ae , a modern sailing cargo ship, as a significant milestone, the research contextualises the PBSP within the broader framework of interna…
Regulating logistics
Compliance capitalism offers potential solutions to disruptions and challenges in global trade by aiming to internalize social and environmental concerns into the increasingly required checks and balances along the supply chain. However, the explicit connection between compliance and capitalism risks prioritizing capitalist imperatives over planetary boundaries. This article argues that compliance should primarily align with geophysical constrain…
What is the role of creative industries in the Anthropocene? An argument for planetary cultural policy
Many artistic expressions call for cultural, social and political change. Though the policy environments in which they emerge remain predominantly wedded to a consumption-driven creative economy. In doing so, they tacitly endorse a methodologically nationalist perspective on artistic expression, trade in creative goods and services, and cultural identity. By using the United Nations resolution on the International Year of Creative Economy for Sus…
All on board
Between cultural trade and cultural development
This article examines the first decade (2010–2019) of the International Fund for Cultural Diversity (IFCD or the Fund). It first reviews how the IFCD works to promote cultural development and international cooperation within UNESCO’s 2005 Convention. It then explores how the Fund is financed and how its expected results are defined. The article argues that despite the broad visibility and normative influence of the Convention, the IFCD has not re…
Covid-19 border closures cause humanitarian crew change crisis at sea
Covid-19 at sea
The 2020 COVID-19 pandemic has impacted virtually everyone on the planet. But the impacts have been diverse and uneven. In this article, I reflect on the plight of seafarers during the pandemic. I suggest that being 'locked in' is intrinsic to life at sea, as one can't simply leave a ship. What makes the experience of the pandemic so challenging at sea is being 'locked out' of land. With border closures prohibiting 'crew change', many seafarers h…
Friction in the Creative City
The Indonesian city of Bandung presents itself as an “emerging creative city.” This raises the question of how an “emerging” creative city can attain realisation: when and where is the creative city accomplished? The formalisation of the creative city creates friction – to borrow the term from Tsing. This friction manifests in two ways. First, through its ontological opacity (what is the creative city?), Mould contrasts the “Creative City” (the m…
Emergent film production in the Pacific
Cultural policies that promote film production and exchange in small island states face numerous challenges (including training, funding, and infrastructure). Yet, in the Pacific, Indigenous film-making is a key strategy for redressing reductive framing of the region during the colonial period (which continues today), and the last 20 years has seen a growing movement towards greater Pacific Island film production. In addition, the creative indust…
Mobilising African music
This paper explores the role of mobile telecommunication and technology firms (MTTs) in the distribution of recorded music in Ghana and Kenya. These countries both have vibrant music markets with weak formal distribution networks. Limited enforcement of copyright regimes and weak market regulation created new entrepreneurial business models. While 'big tech' dominates this space elsewhere, in African contexts the main players are mobile service p…
Cultural policies for sustainable development
In the Sustainable Development Goals adopted by the United Nations in 2015, the role of culture is limited. We argue that culture’s absence is rooted in the longue durée of interplay among theoretical and policy debates on culture in sustainable development and on cultural policy since the mid-twentieth century. In response to variations in concepts and frameworks used in advocacy, policy, and academia, we propose four roles cultural policy can p…
Cultural Policies for Sustainable Development
The creative economy as a versatile policy script
Since the early 2000s, several intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) have advanced the idea that the creative economy could be a ‘feasible development option’. The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) took the lead by preparing the 2008 and 2010 Creative Economy Reports, whereas the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and UNDP execute…
Global Cultural Economy
Global Cultural Economy critically interrogates the role cultural and creative industries play in societies. By locating these industries in their broader cultural and economic contexts, Christiaan De Beukelaer and Kim-Marie Spence combine their repertoires of empirical work across four continents to define the ‘cultural economy’ as the system of production, distribution, and consumption of cultural goods and services, as well as the cultural, ec…
The political economy of intellectual property rights
Orthodox copyright scholarship frames piracy in ‘developing’ countries as a detrimental and illegal practice that results from these countries’ lack of economic, social and cultural development. It argues that piracy needs to be discouraged, regulated, and finally overcome for legitimate business to flourish. In this article, the authors challenge this viewpoint and question whether the implementation of international copyright instruments in leg…
Capital, state and conflict
Introduction
Sustainable development has long conceptual roots, and international organisations have played a significant role in articulating the meaning of the term and the content of the dominant discourses. Within these frames, the concept of cultural sustainability tends to be diversely defined and operationalized. This article and special issue examine culture and sustainable development in ways that articulate and contemplate different roles for cultur…
Cultural policies for sustainable development
In the Sustainable Development Goals adopted by the United Nations in 2015, the role of culture is limited. We argue that culture’s absence is rooted in the longue durée of interplay among theoretical and policy debates on culture in sustainable development and on cultural policy since the mid-twentieth century. In response to variations in concepts and frameworks used in advocacy, policy, and academia, we propose four roles cultural policy can p…
Ordinary culture in a world of strangers
The image of Zwarte Piet, as part of Dutch Sinterklaas celebrations has caused heated debate in the past decade, which has polarized tensions between the ‘Dutch’ and ‘strangers’. This article argues that the debate cannot be resolved within a framework of a methodologically nationalist cultural policy. Building on Kwame Anthony Appiah’s book Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers, I argue that a cosmopolitan framework for belonging is no…
Creative economy and culture
And there was creativity!The book Creative economy and culture is a work of theological grandeur. John Hartley, Wen Wen, and Henry Siling Li have written nothing short of the long-awaited bible of
Toward an ‘African’ take on the cultural and creative industries
This article questions the extent to which ‘Africa’ can simply buy into the creative economy discourse. This is necessary because the relative lack of attention to the cultural and creative industries on the continent in the academic literature creates a double blind. First, the empirical context in which culture is created, traded, and consumed remains absent from the largely Western literature. Second, the same Western literature serves as a wa…
Postcolonial piracy
This edited volume provides a timely response to the regular alarmist newsflashes regarding the detrimental effect piracy has had on the profitability of the cultural industries. The book, while ov
The social and built infrastructure of cultural policy
The rise of digital music distribution has caused decreasing returns from CD and cassette sales in Burkina Faso and Ghana. In response to this decline in revenues, artists and their management have been trying to find ways to find other sources of income. One major way of doing this has been through focusing on (live) music performance. Yet this requires built and social infrastructures that are not always present, functional, or put to full use.…
Developing Cultural Industries
Exploring the connection between culture and broader goals of human development, this research focuses on cultural and creative industries in what is commonly referred to as 'developing countries'. Christiaan De Beukelaer offers a thorough exploration of how the concepts of cultural and creative industries are constructed and implemented across African countries and evaluates various policy implications of his findings. Combining an empirical stu…
The Synchronization of National Policies
In 1956, the American anthropologist Horace Mitchell Miner published a short piece in the American Anthropologist. This paper, titled Body Ritual among the Nacirema (Miner, 1956), critically explor
Cultural policies for sustainable development
In the Sustainable Development Goals adopted by the United Nations in 2015, the role of culture is limited. We argue that culture’s absence is rooted in the longue durée of interplay among theoretical and policy debates on culture in sustainable development and on cultural policy since the mid-twentieth century. In response to variations in concepts and frameworks used in advocacy, policy, and academia, we propose four roles cultural policy can p…
Creative industries in “developing” countries
The UNCTAD Creative Economy Reports (CERs) are arguably the most influential policy-oriented texts on the global scope and potential of the creative economy. They contain arguments for greater policy attention to the creative economy worldwide and statistical data to illustrate their claims. These reports argue that the creative economy is an area of growth, not only in “developed”, but also in “developing” economies. The central argument of this…
Mobilising African music
This paper explores the role of mobile telecommunication and technology firms (MTTs) in the distribution of recorded music in Ghana and Kenya. These countries both have vibrant music markets with weak formal distribution networks. Limited enforcement of copyright regimes and weak market regulation created new entrepreneurial business models. While 'big tech' dominates this space elsewhere, in African contexts the main players are mobile service p…
Cultural policy
Cultural policy is often seen as peripheral to overall debates in public policy, particularly relative to health, defence, or education (p. 1). O'Brien sets out to show how cultural policy is, in f
Introduction
Sustainable development has long conceptual roots, and international organisations have played a significant role in articulating the meaning of the term and the content of the dominant discourses. Within these frames, the concept of cultural sustainability tends to be diversely defined and operationalized. This article and special issue examine culture and sustainable development in ways that articulate and contemplate different roles for cultur…
Toward an ‘African’ take on the cultural and creative industries
This article questions the extent to which ‘Africa’ can simply buy into the creative economy discourse. This is necessary because the relative lack of attention to the cultural and creative industries on the continent in the academic literature creates a double blind. First, the empirical context in which culture is created, traded, and consumed remains absent from the largely Western literature. Second, the same Western literature serves as a wa…
Ordinary culture in a world of strangers
The image of Zwarte Piet, as part of Dutch Sinterklaas celebrations has caused heated debate in the past decade, which has polarized tensions between the ‘Dutch’ and ‘strangers’. This article argues that the debate cannot be resolved within a framework of a methodologically nationalist cultural policy. Building on Kwame Anthony Appiah’s book Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers, I argue that a cosmopolitan framework for belonging is no…
Global creative industries
The creative industries have gone global, but academic inquiry in this topic is still limited. Terry Flew’s book is part of the ongoing struggle of academics to catch up with global interest in the
What is the role of creative industries in the Anthropocene? An argument for planetary cultural policy
Many artistic expressions call for cultural, social and political change. Though the policy environments in which they emerge remain predominantly wedded to a consumption-driven creative economy. In doing so, they tacitly endorse a methodologically nationalist perspective on artistic expression, trade in creative goods and services, and cultural identity. By using the United Nations resolution on the International Year of Creative Economy for Sus…
The political economy of intellectual property rights
Orthodox copyright scholarship frames piracy in ‘developing’ countries as a detrimental and illegal practice that results from these countries’ lack of economic, social and cultural development. It argues that piracy needs to be discouraged, regulated, and finally overcome for legitimate business to flourish. In this article, the authors challenge this viewpoint and question whether the implementation of international copyright instruments in leg…
Postcolonial piracy
This edited volume provides a timely response to the regular alarmist newsflashes regarding the detrimental effect piracy has had on the profitability of the cultural industries. The book, while ov
The social and built infrastructure of cultural policy
The rise of digital music distribution has caused decreasing returns from CD and cassette sales in Burkina Faso and Ghana. In response to this decline in revenues, artists and their management have been trying to find ways to find other sources of income. One major way of doing this has been through focusing on (live) music performance. Yet this requires built and social infrastructures that are not always present, functional, or put to full use.…
Between cultural trade and cultural development
This article examines the first decade (2010–2019) of the International Fund for Cultural Diversity (IFCD or the Fund). It first reviews how the IFCD works to promote cultural development and international cooperation within UNESCO’s 2005 Convention. It then explores how the Fund is financed and how its expected results are defined. The article argues that despite the broad visibility and normative influence of the Convention, the IFCD has not re…
Emergent film production in the Pacific
Cultural policies that promote film production and exchange in small island states face numerous challenges (including training, funding, and infrastructure). Yet, in the Pacific, Indigenous film-making is a key strategy for redressing reductive framing of the region during the colonial period (which continues today), and the last 20 years has seen a growing movement towards greater Pacific Island film production. In addition, the creative indust…
The creative economy as a versatile policy script
Since the early 2000s, several intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) have advanced the idea that the creative economy could be a ‘feasible development option’. The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) took the lead by preparing the 2008 and 2010 Creative Economy Reports, whereas the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and UNDP execute…
Gross Domestic Problem
Gross Domestic Problem: The Politics Behind the World's Most Powerful Number." Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 15(2-3), pp. 290–291
Culture and development in Burkina Faso
Like many countries around the world, Burkina Faso is trying to valorise its cultural sector and traditions for social and economic development. Policies, studies, and initiatives are devised to facilitate the materialisation of this intent. This policy analysis explores in particular a recent study conducted for the Burkinabè Ministry of Culture. Throughout the analysis there is a focus on striking issues with (1) the practical links between soc…
Corporations and cultural industries
Corporations and cultural industries: Time Warner, Bertelsmann, and News Corporation, by Scott W. Fitzgerald, Lanham, MD, Lexington Books, 2012, 486 pp., $90.00/£57.95 (hardback), $89.99/£57.95 (eB
Spaces for consumption
by Steven Miles, London, Sage, 2010, 216 pp., £22.99 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-41-294666-7 Spaces for Consumption sets out to critically understand the complex nature of consumption practices. The ce
Culture, Development and Social Theory
Additional informationNotes on contributorsChristiaan M. De BeukelaerChristiaan De Beukelaer is a doctoral candidate at the Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds, UK
Culture and development in Burkina Faso
Like many countries around the world, Burkina Faso is trying to valorise its cultural sector and traditions for social and economic development. Policies, studies, and initiatives are devised to facilitate the materialisation of this intent. This policy analysis explores in particular a recent study conducted for the Burkinabè Ministry of Culture. Throughout the analysis there is a focus on striking issues with (1) the practical links between soc…
Corporations and cultural industries
Corporations and cultural industries: Time Warner, Bertelsmann, and News Corporation, by Scott W. Fitzgerald, Lanham, MD, Lexington Books, 2012, 486 pp., $90.00/£57.95 (hardback), $89.99/£57.95 (eB
The Unesco/UNDP 2013 Creative Economy Report
This article develops a critical appraisal of the UNESCO Creative Economy Report (2013). It dis-cusses continuity and change in the focus and message of the UNCTAD Creative Economy Reports. The UNESCO Report aims at Widening Development Pathways and provides a balanced engagement with the relation between culture and development. It is a welcome addition to the creative economy debate that is now uncontestably global in scope. In spite of many pe…
Gross Domestic Problem
Gross Domestic Problem: The Politics Behind the World's Most Powerful Number." Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 15(2-3), pp. 290–291
Global creative industries
The creative industries have gone global, but academic inquiry in this topic is still limited. Terry Flew’s book is part of the ongoing struggle of academics to catch up with global interest in the
Creative industries in “developing” countries
The UNCTAD Creative Economy Reports (CERs) are arguably the most influential policy-oriented texts on the global scope and potential of the creative economy. They contain arguments for greater policy attention to the creative economy worldwide and statistical data to illustrate their claims. These reports argue that the creative economy is an area of growth, not only in “developed”, but also in “developing” economies. The central argument of this…
Global Gentrifications
Globalization, Culture, and Development
This edited collection outlines the accomplishments, shortcomings, and future policy prospects of the 2005 UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, a
Cultural policy
Cultural policy is often seen as peripheral to overall debates in public policy, particularly relative to health, defence, or education (p. 1). O'Brien sets out to show how cultural policy is, in f
Indigenous discourses on knowledge and development in Africa
Edward Shizha and Ali A. Abdi stress in their introduction to this edited volume that ‘Africa has to rethink and re-engage development partners on its own terms’ (p. 5). Much has been written on the need to rethink the notion of development, yet it is a far greater challenge to write what that particular ‘African’ perspective entails. My review explores to what extent the authors manage to live up to their ambitious promise to present ‘an African…
The social and built infrastructure of cultural policy
The rise of digital music distribution has caused decreasing returns from CD and cassette sales in Burkina Faso and Ghana. In response to this decline in revenues, artists and their management have been trying to find ways to find other sources of income. One major way of doing this has been through focusing on (live) music performance. Yet this requires built and social infrastructures that are not always present, functional, or put to full use.…
Creating Malta towards 2020 and beyond (2015) by Arts Council Malta, Valletta, Malta
The Arts Council Malta, previously known as the Malta Council for Culture and the Arts (MCCA), was renamed on the 12th of May 2015 through Act 2015 of the Maltese Parliament. The Council is an arm’
Music Piracy
Capital, state and conflict
Introduction
Sustainable development has long conceptual roots, and international organisations have played a significant role in articulating the meaning of the term and the content of the dominant discourses. Within these frames, the concept of cultural sustainability tends to be diversely defined and operationalized. This article and special issue examine culture and sustainable development in ways that articulate and contemplate different roles for cultur…
Cultural policies for sustainable development
In the Sustainable Development Goals adopted by the United Nations in 2015, the role of culture is limited. We argue that culture’s absence is rooted in the longue durée of interplay among theoretical and policy debates on culture in sustainable development and on cultural policy since the mid-twentieth century. In response to variations in concepts and frameworks used in advocacy, policy, and academia, we propose four roles cultural policy can p…
Ordinary culture in a world of strangers
The image of Zwarte Piet, as part of Dutch Sinterklaas celebrations has caused heated debate in the past decade, which has polarized tensions between the ‘Dutch’ and ‘strangers’. This article argues that the debate cannot be resolved within a framework of a methodologically nationalist cultural policy. Building on Kwame Anthony Appiah’s book Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers, I argue that a cosmopolitan framework for belonging is no…
Creative economy and culture
And there was creativity!The book Creative economy and culture is a work of theological grandeur. John Hartley, Wen Wen, and Henry Siling Li have written nothing short of the long-awaited bible of
Toward an ‘African’ take on the cultural and creative industries
This article questions the extent to which ‘Africa’ can simply buy into the creative economy discourse. This is necessary because the relative lack of attention to the cultural and creative industries on the continent in the academic literature creates a double blind. First, the empirical context in which culture is created, traded, and consumed remains absent from the largely Western literature. Second, the same Western literature serves as a wa…
Postcolonial piracy
This edited volume provides a timely response to the regular alarmist newsflashes regarding the detrimental effect piracy has had on the profitability of the cultural industries. The book, while ov
Global Cultural Economy
Global Cultural Economy critically interrogates the role cultural and creative industries play in societies. By locating these industries in their broader cultural and economic contexts, Christiaan De Beukelaer and Kim-Marie Spence combine their repertoires of empirical work across four continents to define the ‘cultural economy’ as the system of production, distribution, and consumption of cultural goods and services, as well as the cultural, ec…
The political economy of intellectual property rights
Orthodox copyright scholarship frames piracy in ‘developing’ countries as a detrimental and illegal practice that results from these countries’ lack of economic, social and cultural development. It argues that piracy needs to be discouraged, regulated, and finally overcome for legitimate business to flourish. In this article, the authors challenge this viewpoint and question whether the implementation of international copyright instruments in leg…
Cultural policies for sustainable development
In the Sustainable Development Goals adopted by the United Nations in 2015, the role of culture is limited. We argue that culture’s absence is rooted in the longue durée of interplay among theoretical and policy debates on culture in sustainable development and on cultural policy since the mid-twentieth century. In response to variations in concepts and frameworks used in advocacy, policy, and academia, we propose four roles cultural policy can p…
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