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Modelling diversity : cultural district policies in Doha and Singapore
Full text linkPublished online: 05 October 2020Over the last twenty years, cities around the world have seen the multiplication of cultural district projects, which aim to concentrate cultural organisations in a circumscribed urban space, or to label a neighbourhood’s cultural scene. This paper examines the adoption and adaptation of a globally circulating cultural policy model as an instrument of urban governance. Moving away from the notion of policy transfer, understood as a neutral and unidirectional process through which successful culture-led development models spread to other contexts, I show how local actors mobilise external references to position themselves in a transnational cultural policymaking field, and construct their city as a model. I compare the multi-scalar politics of urban modelling in Doha and Singapore, where globally circulating culture-led development models have been introduced not only as instruments of economic growth, but also as diversity management tools. On the one hand, cultural districts serve as discursive nation building/branding instruments to project an imagined identity locally and internationally. On the other hand, urban elites can mobilise cultural districts to make strategic shifts in the diversity management discourse, through an engagement with the urban environment, and the co-optation civil society actors at multiple scales
The transnational circulation of the art district model : the case of the Gillman Barracks in Singapore
No full textCet article étudie la circulation du modèle du district artistique et analyse la transformation d’un ancien complexe de casernes coloniales à Singapour, les Gillman Barracks, en destination artistique. Cette étude montre que le caractère flou et malléable du modèle de district artistique favorise sa circulation. L’appropriation d’un tel modèle dans un contexte nouveau peut donner lieu à une transformation du rationnel initial : conçu initialement au prisme de la création, le district artistique a été mobilisé par le gouvernement singapourien comme un instrument de promotion urbaine. La cite-État dispose d’une longue expérience consistant à s’approprier des références internationales afin d’élaborer un modèle exportable, dans des domaines aussi divers que le logement, la politique économique ou le transport. Mais la trajectoire chaotique du projet des Gillman Barracks montre que Singapour peine à imposer sa politique culturelle comme un modèle. Cependant, dans ce nouvel espace transnational, les références extérieures deviennent progressivement une ressource pour construire un nouveau narratif, aux marges du « modèle singapourien ».This article studies the circulation of the art district model and analyses the transformation of a former colonial military barracks complex in Singapore, the Gillman Barracks, into an artistic destination. This study shows the art district model’s blurriness and flexibility character favours its circulation. Its initial rationale can be transformed as it gets adopted in a new context: conceived initially as a tool to foster creation, the art district model was mobilised as an instrument of urban promotion by the Singaporean government. The city-State has a long experience mobilizing international references to elaborate its own exportable model, in fields such as housing, economic development or transportation policies. But the chaotic trajectory of the Gillman Barracks project shows that Singapore struggles to impose its cultural policy as a model. Meanwhile, within this new transnational space, external references progressively become a resource to build a new narrative, on the margins of the “Singaporean model”
Le quartier dans les stratégies de régénération urbaine par la culture : regards croisés sur les cas de Gênes et Istanbul
No full textGlobal cities and cultural diversity governance : comparing Doha and Singapore
Full text linkThe rise of global cities has raised multiple questions regarding the governance of diversity. While they are often portrayed as spaces of ungovernable global flows and as catalysts of the disappearance of national identities, this paper aims to analyse these cities’ actions and strategies to govern their cultural diversity and defend a renewed conception of the national. I combine an analysis of outward-looking strategies that promote their cultural diversity on the global cultural field, and of inward-looking strategies that attempt to project their plural identity in the urban space. I compare two cities, Doha and Singapore, which have emerged as major centres of the global economy and offer a perspective that differs from the large Western cities where the notion of global city was initially coined. The affirmation of Doha and Singapore as global cities does not go along with a process of weakening of the nation-state, but on the contrary takes part in a logic of nation building and nation branding. The paper analyses how local actors negotiate this dialectic between the global and the national. Firstly, I show that they have put transnational regional networks and identities at the centre of the promotion of these cities as cultural hub. Secondly, I show that the recognition of these cities’ diverse heritage and its display in the urban landscape, go in parallel with an increasing spatial exclusion of recent migrants
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Putting the city on the world art map : star curators and nation branding
Full text linkPublished online: 19 October 2020Over the last two decades, we have seen a worldwide expansion of the concept and practice of cultural diplomacy, along with the emergence of a multipolar world. This raises the question of the way in which the notion is mobilized and understood beyond Europe and North America. This paper is based on comparative research carried out in Qatar and Singapore. Both countries have developed ambitious cultural diplomacy strategies, based on the establishment of world-class cultural and educational institutions, and on their integration into regional and global cultural networks. But many have highlighted contradictions between these ambitious strategies and the restrictions and pressures that both countries place on their civil societies. This paper discusses how curators, who have become key global gatekeepers, negotiate their role in their country’s global cultural strategy and position themselves with regard to the official national narrative. With their multiple belonging, they shape narratives that make regional and local scenes and can put cities on the world art map. This symbolic power puts them in a strategic position to shape the nation-branding discourse.This article was published Open Access with the support from the EUI Library through the CRUI - Springer Transformative Agreement (2020-2024)This article received funding from the H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions [843269]
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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