INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL POLICIES AND POWER

International Cultural Policies and Power

International Cultural Policies and Power

Introduction

Many different versions of cultural studies emerged in recent decades. Although a dramatic period of global expansion in 1980 and 1990, cultural studies is often identified with the approach to culture and society developed by the Center for Contemporary Cultural Studies in Birmingham, England, his sociological materialism and political approaches to culture predecessors in the series of flow of cultural Marxism. Many Marxist theorists of the twentieth century, from Georg Lukacs, Antonio Gramsci, Ernst Bloch, Walter Benjamin and TW Adorno to Fredric Jameson and Terry Eagleton, a member of the Marxist theory to analyze cultural forms in relation to its production, its entanglement with the society and history and its impact and influence on public life.

Reviewing the book “International Cultural Policies and Power”, J.P.Singh made his point clear by analyzing, the deep impact of culture policy as how it implement to the world as a whole.

Political scientist, in general, and ignore their cultural industries and technologies highlighted in other subjects. This book provides from the local, social, national and international levels of insight, understanding of the cultural industry, technology, policy and political science research into these ideas. (Singh, 2010)

Culture and Civilization

In this framework, culture is gaining a new meaning for citizens, governments and social organizations, which have forced to broaden their perspective, mission and importance of the confrontation and dialogue with other cultures. The processes of integration, supranational agreements or circulation and mobility of its citizens in processes of migration, cooperation or other forms of mobility today, are an expression of this new phenomenon that is gaining a remarkable importance. (Singh, 2010)

According to the book, J.P Singh says that, International cooperation seen, then as a social responsibility with a view to breaking the inequalities between rich and poor nations. In addition, contribute to national policies to reduce inequalities within our own countries, where cultures and communities still suffer marginalization realities or exclusion, which cast doubt in some cases, the very organization of nation states. These processes shape cultural realities of change and generating new knowledge needs of mutual contact, exchange, etc between cultures, countries, peoples, etc ., whether they join cultural ties, historical, political, or there are new wills, cultural players and develop shared paths. (Singh, 2010)

In addition, within a single society, the social mechanisms surrounding the production of visual arts may work as well as the production of books and music or otherwise. In addition, changes in manufacturing processes and arrangements with the weather affect the content.

International cooperation must be seen then as a social responsibility with a view to breaking the inequalities between rich and poor nations and contribute to national policies to reduce inequalities within our own countries, where cultures and communities still suffer marginalization realities or exclusion, which cast doubt in some cases, the very organization of nation states. (Singh, 2010)

Fantastic cultural diversity as a central theme of cultural cooperation is the key in a time when the global commoditization ...