Between cultural trade and cultural development

Examining the first decade of Unesco's International Fund for Cultural Diversity

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12235367
AutoresChristiaan De Beukelaer (0000-0002-9045-9979, The University of Melbourne, autor correspondente), Thuy Tran (0000-0002-6244-7575, The University of Melbourne)
Ano2022
Volume33
Fascículo1
Páginas91-110
Data de publicação2022-10-07
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCultural Trends (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0954-8963 • E-ISSN: 1469-3690
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09548963.2022.2124365
OpenAlexW4303453254
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas41

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 received the levels of financial support by both state Parties and the private sector as the Secretariat envisaged. Moreover, the shift to creativity has neither delivered better fundraising results for the IFCD nor fitted squarely into UNESCO’s broader cultural development frameworks. This opens further questions on the conceptualisation of structural changes as a key objective of projects supported by the IFCD, and the possibility of them addressing structural inequalities that characterise the political economy of the globalised cultural industries

Convention · Creativity · Cultural diversity · Diversity (politics · Normative · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Law · Public Administration