PARTICIPATORY GOVERNANCE AND CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT : an empirical analysis of european capitals of... culture

This book analyses the impact of participatory governance on cultural development, explaining why cultural participatory practices can lead to positive sustainable effects or to unexpected and controversial ones. It focuses on four projects realized in the two European Capitals of Culture of 2013 - Marseille-Provence (France) and Košice (Slovakia) – within the Programme ‘Quartiers Créatifs’ and the SPOTs Programme. By combining different strands of the Democratic Theory and applying the process tracing methodology, the book argues that participation produces cultural developmental processes only when a certain intensity of trust is reached among the various stakeholders. In the presence of fully-fledged trust, participation activates a reinforcing chain of capacity-building and social capital that nurture long-term cultural networks. On the contrary, in the absence of fully-fledged trust, participation can generate contestation movements or isolated cultural production. Uniquely, the book challenges the ‘optimistic aura’ of participatory governance of culture, showing its conflicting but always productive nature. Preface Contents About the Author List of Figures List of Tables Chapter 1: Introduction 1.1 Participatory Governance of Culture: Origins and Controversial Aspects 1.1.1 The International and European Support to Participatory Governance of Culture 1.1.2 The Controversial Aspects and the Uncertain Beneficial Effects 1.2 The Rationale of the Book 1.2.1 Research Problem and Research Questions 1.2.2 Core Concepts of the Book 1.2.3 The Democratic Theory as a Theoretical Background 1.2.4 The Empirical Analysis: European Capitals of Culture and the City and Citizens Criterion 1.3 Methodology 1.3.1 Studying the Impacts of Participatory Governance of Culture Through Process Tracing 1.3.2 Selection of the Case Studies 1.3.3 Collection and Analysis of Evidence 1.3.4 The Interviews 1.4 The Contributions of the Book 1.4.1 Main Argument 1.4.2 The Contributions to the Literature References Chapter 2: Participatory Governance and Cultural Development: A Framework of Causal Mechanisms 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Defining Cultural Development and Participatory Governance 2.2.1 Cultural Development as Expected Outcome 2.2.2 A Three-Dimensional Definition of Participatory Governance 2.3 A “pragmatic” Approach to the “expansive” Democratic Theory 2.3.1 The Reason for Democratic Theory as a Theoretical Background 2.3.2 The “expansive” Tradition of Democratic Theory 2.3.3 The “self-transformation thesis” and its Applicability to the Cultural Domain 2.3.4 The Need for a “pragmatic approach” 2.4 The Analytical Framework 2.5 Causal Mechanisms 2.5.1 Dialogue and Trust Building 2.5.2 Cultural Development in the Presence of Complete Trust 2.5.2.1 Capacity Building and Mutual Understanding 2.5.2.2 Legitimacy and Common Good Orientation 2.5.2.3 The Impacts on Cultural Development 2.5.3 Conflict or Lack of Social Cohesion in the Absence of Complete Trust 2.5.3.1 Mistrust and Alternative Cultural Expressions 2.5.3.2 Partial Trust and Isolated Cultural Production 2.6 Conclusions References Chapter 3: Participatory Governance in Marseille-Provence 2013 and Košice 2013 3.1 Introduction 3.2 The Importance of Studying the European Capitals of Culture of 2013: Background and Motivation 3.3 Participatory Governance in Marseille-Provence 2013: The Quartiers Créatifs Program 3.3.1 Marseille-Provence 2013: General Overview 3.3.2 The Quartiers Créatifs Program 3.3.2.1 Objectives and Contents 3.3.2.2 Governance 3.4 Participatory Governance in Košice 2013: The SPOTs Program 3.4.1 Košice 2013: General Overview 3.4.2 The SPOTs Program 3.4.2.1 Objectives and Contents 3.4.2.2 Governance 3.5 Conclusions References Chapter 4: Participation in the Presence of Complete Trust: Explaining Cultural Development in the PARCeque Project (Marseille) and in the Exchanger Obrody (Košice) 4.1 Introduction 4.2 From PARCeque to the Théâtre du Centaure (Marseille) 4.2.1 Origins and Development of the Initiative 4.2.2 Observed Causal Steps 4.2.2.1 Dialogue and Trust Building 4.2.2.2 Capacity Building and Mutual Understanding 4.2.2.3 Legitimacy and Common Good Orientation 4.2.3 The Impacts on Cultural Development 4.2.3.1 Cultural Production 4.2.3.2 Cultural Reception 4.2.3.3 Cultural Relations 4.3 The Growing Community of the Exchanger Obrody (Košice) 4.3.1 Origins and Development of the Exchanger 4.3.2 Observed Causal Steps 4.3.2.1 Dialogue and Trust Building 4.3.2.2 Capacity Building and Mutual Understanding 4.3.2.3 Legitimacy and Common Good Orientation 4.3.3 The Impacts on Cultural Development 4.3.3.1 Cultural Production 4.3.3.2 Cultural Reception 4.3.3.3 Cultural Relations 4.4 Conclusions References Chapter 5: Participation in the Absence of Complete Trust: Conflict in the Jardins Possibles Project (Marseille) and Lack of Social Cohesion in the Exchanger Važecká (Košice) 5.1 Introduction 5.2 When Participation Leads to Conflict: The Jardins Possibles Project (Marseille) 5.2.1 Origins and Development of the Initiative 5.2.2 Observed Causal Steps 5.2.2.1 Dialogue and Mistrust 5.2.2.2 Disagreement and Feeling of Manipulation 5.2.2.3 Conflict 5.2.3 The Promotion of Alternative Cultural Expressions 5.3 Cultural Production Without Social Cohesion in the Exchanger Važecká (Košice) 5.3.1 Origins and Development of the Exchanger Važecká 5.3.2 Observed Causal Steps 5.3.2.1 Dialogue and Partial Trust 5.3.2.2 Capacity Building and Limited Social Cohesion 5.3.3 The Lack of Social Cohesion 5.4 Conclusions References Chapter 6: General Conclusions 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Main Findings 6.3 Possible Future Developments References