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Whither Cultural Policy Studies?
Tom O’Regan, Australian Key Centre for Cultural and Media Policy, Griffith University
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What is the the immediate past and future prospects for cultural policy studies as a part of the broader cultural studies enterprise? How are broader changes in cultural policy bearing on how a cultural policy studies might see itself? Is the re-defining of cultural policy changing conceptions of the position, scope and priority of cultural policy studies and cultural studies alike? To what extent are these changing policy positions responses to significant changes in the creative industries/creative sector? What is the relation between a cultural policy studies and other disciplinary and emerging epistemic configurations seeking to explain strategies of governance in a knowledge/information/ converging environment? How are the current policy preoccupations with "whole of government", "cross-sectoral partnerships", "cultural development" and the "creative industries" inflecting how we understand culture and government? Is it possible to articulate and promote a national cultural policy studies program in the way it was possible to do so in the early 1990s? How useful in this context is a nationally-constituted research centre in cultural and media policy such as the Australian Key Centre for Cultural and Media Policy? What does this all say about the "cultural policy debate" of the early 1990s?
