Cultural Policy and the Power of Place, South Africa

Sitas, R (2017). Cultural Policy and the Power of Place, South Africa. In The Routledge Companion to Global Cultural Policy (Ed). Chapter 36. London: Routledge.

Platform
Cape Town
Publication type
Book chapter
Projects
Cultural Heritage and Just Cities
DOI Title
Cultural Policy and the Power of Place, South Africa
Journal
The Routledge Handbook of Global Cultural Policy
ISSN/ISBN
9781138857827
DOI
10.4324/9781315718408.ch36
Author(s)
Rike Sitas
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Abstract

South Africa is often lauded as having a sophisticated policy landscape. Nevertheless, the terrain is still hotly contested, and many disjunctures between policy and implementation exist. It is therefore unsurprising that cultural policy debates are marked by disputes and dissensus. Post-apartheid cultural policy in South Africa is based on the 1996 White Paper on Arts Culture and Heritage, with a draft Revised White Paper circulating unsuccessfully since 2013. Although there are numerous consultative processes drawing in perspectives from different interests, little consensus has been reached, which has a direct impact on implementation.

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