Due to global processes of transformation and the social challenges posed by demographic change, rural areas increasingly demand attention from politics and the public sphere. The contributions in this volume demonstrate how in different European countries it is mainly the cultural players who...

Biographical note: Wolfgang Schneider ist Direktor des Instituts für Kulturpolitik der Universität Hildesheim und Inhaber des UNESCO-Lehrstuhls »Cultural Policy for the Arts in Development«. Fokus seiner Forschungen sind u.a. Theaterpolitik, Kulturelle Bildung und Auswärtige Kulturpolitik....

Die Bedeutung regionaler Kooperationen im Kulturbereich nimmt zu. Während einerseits die Grenzen der Einrichtungen bzw. der Kultursektoren durchlässiger werden, steigt andererseits der Druck der gesellschaftlichen und wirtschaftlichen Verhältnisse. Um diesen Herausforderungen gerecht zu...

"This book uncovers the processes at play in the development of cultural policies, projects and networks in spaces at the edge of their countries, marked by their proximity with a borderline. On a subject which is studied mainly in North America and Western Europe and based on individual case...

Are artists and cultural institutions cultural translators? Which part do concepts such as that of trans-culturality play? The contributions collected in this volume focus on the subject of (trans-)cultural translation and build a bridge between art and the cultural sector, the so-called...