[ Bücher | Books ]

The reform of cultural policies in South East Europe is recorded in a new book,

Hanneloes Weeda , Corina Şuteu and Cas Smithuijsen (Eds.): The Arts, Politics and Change. Participative Cultural Policy-making in South East Europe. Amsterdam: Boekmanstudies 2005, 288 pp. [ISBN 90-6650-081-6; EUR 29,50],

in which practitioners and experts on cultural policy describe the results achieved to date.
They think that sensible cultural policy frameworks are key to developing a stable cultural sector and flourishing cultural activity. And they are doubtless right that since the political changes in South East Europe in the 1990s a participative reform of the previously state-funded cultural system and a strengthening of the independent sector in South East Europe proved to be necessary for many (and different) reasons.
Here you find some review by the Boekman foundation.

Authors are:
Ela Agotić, Tsveta Andreeva, Odile Chenal, Vesna Čopič, Milena Deleva, Philipp Dietachmair, Sanjin Dragojević, Christopher Gordon, Vjeran Katunarić, Marius Lazurca, François Matarasso, Delia Muciă, Oana Radu, Cas Smithuijsen, Corina Şuteu, Lidia Varbanova, Yuriy Vulkovsky, Hanneloes Weeda, and Andrea Zlatar.