Spreading global models and enhancing banal localism: the case of local government cultural policy development
Spreading global models and enhancing banal localism: the case of local government cultural policy development
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传播全球模式和强化平庸的地方主义:地方政府文化政策制定的案例
DOI:
10.1080/10286632.2011.625418
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发表时间:
2013
影响因子:
1.8
通讯作者:
Pertti Alasuutari
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作者:
Pertti Alasuutari
This paper addresses the question of how cosmopolitan consciousness coexists with persistent banal nationalism or localism. The argument put forward is that these two phenomena are reinvigorated by a single process, here called the domestication of transnational models. The newspaper media coverage of an R&D project aimed at developing local government cultural activities in Finnish towns and cities is the object of a case analysis. The results show that although the project contributed to standardizing local government cultural activities and spreading the idea of cities as strategic actors, through the way in which the project was covered in the local media, it strengthened a local viewpoint on the whole process. It drew on and constituted residents’ identification with their local domicile and the idea that local government citizens are members of a team that has to do well in global competition. Second, the comparative data made available was capitalized in local politics.