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Innovations as driving forces of protected areas
No full textDarstellung der Bedeutung von (sozialen/institutionellen) Innovationen im NaturschutzmanagementDiscussion and presentation of the importance of (social/institutional) innovations in nature conservation managemen
Michael Rodriguez interviews fiction writer Michael Kimball
No full textAuthor Michael Kimball talks about moving away from Michigan to become a successful writer, his education, the fiction reading series he has started in Baltimore, the life-story-on-postcard project, and his book "Dear everybody." Kimball is interviewed by Michigan State University Librarian Michael Rodriguez for the Michigan State University Libraries' Michigan Writers Series
Michael Rodriguez interviews author Paul Clemens
No full textAuthor Paul Clemens talks about his book "Made in Detroit," the genre of memoir, and writing about race. Clemens is interviewed by Michigan State University Librarian Michael Rodriguez for the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writers Series. Held in the MSU Main Library
Michael Rodriguez interviews author Tom Springer
No full textAuthor Tom Springer is interviewed about his writing career and his newest book "Looking for hickories". Springer talks about his career following after earning an Environmental Journalism degree from Michigan State University. He calls his genre "creative non-fiction" and explains how he weaves his memories into his books about life in rural and wild Michigan. Part of the Michigan State University Libraries' Michigan Writers Series. Springer is interviewed by Librarian Michael Rodriguez
Michael Rodriguez interviews author Gary Gildner
No full textAuthor Gary Gildner explains why he left his tenured teaching position to move to Idaho to became a full-time writer of poetry. Gildner talks about donating his personal papers to Michigan State University Libraries' Special Collections, his writing style and how he approaches writing. Gildner is interviewed by MSU Librarian Michael Rodriguez for the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writer Series. Held at the MSU Main Library
Cultural infrastructure as part of social infrastructure: perspectives of cultural policy and economics
No full textCultural infrastructures are part of social infrastructures from various viewpoints. While cultural institutions fulfill their role as public places for social exchange and social life, they are also “infrastructure” in the more concrete and narrow focus of the welfare state. Cultural infrastructures help in producing and distributing diverse artifacts (music, performing arts, fine arts) and also play a role in social policies in regard to providing equal access to cultural events, and preserving cultural heritage. The welfare state perspective on cultural infrastructures is highlighted by the normative and positive analyses of public intervention in providing, regulating and funding the cultural infrastructure. Many theories resting on market failures and civil society reasoning (equal access, social participation and inclusion) infer a substantial involvement of the public sector in cultural policies. Though, cultural infrastructures, of course, may be provided and funded - formally as well as informally - both by the public sector, by private institutions and the civil society
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