Cultural Policy: Origins, Evolution, and Implementation in Canada's Provinces and Territories - Paperback

by Monica Gattinger (Editor), Diane St-Pierre (Editor), Jean-Paul Baillargeon (With)

How do Canadian provincial and territorial governments intervene in the cultural and artistic lives of their citizens? What issues and influences shaped the origin and implementation of these policies? On what foundations were policies based in the past, and on what foundations are they based today?

How have governments defined the concepts of culture and cultural policy over time? What are the objectives and outcomes of policies, and what instruments do governments use to pursue them? Answers to these questions are multiple and complex, partly because of the unique historical context of each province and territory, and partly as a result of the various objectives of successive governments, and the values and identities of their citizens.

Cultural Policy: Origins, Evolution, and Implementation in Canada's Provinces and Territories provides a comprehensive synthesis of the history of subnational cultural policies, including governments' institutionalization and instrumentalization of culture, and the development, dissemination, and impact of cultural policy interventions.

Author Biography

Diane Saint-Pierre est professeure et responsable du programme de recherche sur les politiques culturelles à l'Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS, Québec). Ses recherches se centrent sur l'analyse comparative et la gestion publique des politiques culturelles et patrimoniales ainsi que sur la culture, la langue et la diversité culturelle.

Monica Gattinger est directrice de l'Institut de recherche sur la science, la société et la politique publique, professeure titulaire à l'École d'études politiques et présidente d'Énergie positive à l'Université d'Ottawa. Ses recherches portent sur les politiques culturelles et les politiques énergétiques du Canada, aussi bien du point de vue intérieur qu'extérieur.