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<div style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Cambria">Following an encouraging response from an international publisher, we are pleased to invite potential contributions for this book: </span></span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family:Cambria"><b>Making
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</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-NZ"><span style="font-family:Cambria"><a href="mailto:m.badham@unimelb.edu.au" target="_blank">m.badham@unimelb.edu.au</a></span></span></span>
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<div><span style="font-family:arial"><font face="tahoma,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Cambria">Centre for Cultural Partnerships, </span></font></span><span style="font-family:arial"><font face="tahoma,sans-serif"><a href="http://vcam.unimelb.edu.au/ccp" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Cambria">http://vcam.unimelb.edu.au/ccp</span></a><span style="font-family:Cambria"> </span></font></span><span style="font-family:Cambria"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:arial"><font face="tahoma,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Cambria">University of Melbourne, 234 St Kilda Road, Southbank, VIC, Australia, 3006</span><span style="font-family:Cambria"><br>
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<p style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><strong><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family:Cambria">Call for Chapters: </span></strong><i><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family:Cambria"><b>Making Culture Count: The Politics of Cultural Measurement</b></span></i></p>
<p style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><strong><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family:Cambria">Editors: </span></strong><span style="font-family:Cambria">Dr Marnie Badham and Dr Lachlan MacDowall (University of Melbourne), </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Cambria">Emma
Blomkamp (University of Melbourne/University of Auckland), and </span><strong><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-weight:normal;font-family:Cambria">Kim Dunphy (Cultural Development Network/Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia).</span></strong></p>
<p style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><strong><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-weight:normal;font-family:Cambria">In recent years, culture and cultural development have become internationally recognised as important dimensions of contemporary
governance and public policy. As in other policy areas, the production of accurate and relevant data has become central to cultural policy and how the cultural lives of citizens are organised and understood. This book focuses on the factors driving the intensification
of cultural measurement,including new public sector management techniques, the rise of network culture and ‘Big Data’, as well as the onset of the ‘post-cultural’ condition, in which cultural activities are seen as completely enmeshed in social, economic and
environmental formations. Rather than presenting disconnected case studies which take the desirability and the mechanisms of cultural measurement for granted, the book aims to show the usefulness of a critical focus on the politics of measurement, in which
measures can be adapted and contested.</span></strong></p>
<p style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:Cambria">This book brings together diverse perspectives from scholars, policy-makers, cultural development practitioners and artists to explore the burgeoning field of
cultural indicators and its political stakes and implications. The authors will engage in a critical dialogue on various approaches to monitoring, evaluating, planning, advocating, predicting, and simply understanding culture and cultural change. Chapters
will cover a range of theoretical and practical approaches to quantifying forms of cultural value often considered intangible: cultural vitality, health and well being, citizenship, and sustainability.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Cambria">Abstracts on the following or related themes are welcome:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family:Arial"><span style="font-family:Cambria">- Critical histories of cultural measurement</span><span style="font-family:Cambria"><u></u><u></u></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family:Arial"><span style="font-family:Cambria">- Cultural difference, identity and value: whose culture is being measured?</span><span style="font-family:Cambria"><u></u><u></u></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family:Arial"><span style="font-family:Cambria">- Cultural measurement within international, urban and regional development</span><span style="font-family:Cambria"><u></u><u></u></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family:Arial"><span style="font-family:Cambria">- Measuring participation and engagement in the arts</span><span style="font-family:Cambria"><u></u><u></u></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family:Arial"><span style="font-family:Cambria">- Measuring cultural value</span><span style="font-family:Cambria"><u></u><u></u></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family:Arial"><span style="font-family:Cambria">- The politics and limits of attempts to democratise cultural measurement</span><span style="font-family:Cambria"><u></u><u></u></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family:Arial"><span style="font-family:Cambria">- Visualising cultural measurement</span><span style="font-family:Cambria"><u></u><u></u></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family:Arial"><span style="font-family:Cambria">- Art-making, data and cultural measurement</span><span style="font-family:Cambria"><u></u><u></u></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family:Cambria">Confirmed contributors to date
</span><span style="font-family:Cambria">include</span><span style="font-family:Arial"><span style="font-family:Cambria"></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:Cambria">Associate Professor Eleonora Belfiore, Centre for Cultural Policy Studies, University
of Warwick (UK) and Dr Maria Rosario Jackson, Arts and Culture Program, Kresage Foundation (USA).</span></span></p>
<p style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span style="font-family:Arial"><span style="font-family:Cambria">Abstract requirements: </span></span></b><span style="font-family:Arial"><span style="font-family:Cambria">Abstracts of no
more than 300 words and a biographical note (max. 100 words) are invited.</span><span style="font-family:Cambria">
</span><span style="font-family:Cambria">These </span></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:Arial"><span style="font-family:Cambria">should include the name(s), affiliation(s) and contact details of the author(s) and corresponding themes your work relates
to (as noted above).</span><span style="font-family:Cambria"> </span><span style="font-family:Cambria">If you have already prepared a draft of the chapter (maximum 6,000 words including references), please send this too.
</span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria">To submit abstracts or for further information, email
</span><strong><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family:Cambria">Dr Marnie Badham (</span></strong><span lang="EN-NZ"><a href="mailto:m.badham@unimelb.edu.au" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Cambria">m.badham@unimelb.edu.au</span></a></span><strong><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-weight:normal;font-family:Cambria">).</span></strong></p>
<p style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><strong><span style="font-family:Cambria">Closing date:</span></strong><strong><span style="font-weight:normal;font-family:Cambria"> 5pm Wednesday, </span></strong><span style="font-family:Cambria">12
December 2012 (Melbourne, Australia timezone)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family:Arial"><span style="font-family:Cambria">This book project was generated out of the international conference
</span><b><span style="font-family:Cambria">Making Culture Count:</span></b><span style="font-family:Cambria"></span></span><b><i><span style="font-family:Cambria">Rethinking measures of cultural vitality, well being and citizenship</span></i></b><span style="font-family:Arial"><span style="font-family:Cambria"></span><span lang="EN-NZ"><span style="font-family:Cambria">(</span><a href="http://conference2012.culturaldevelopment.com.au/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Cambria">http://conference2012.culturaldevelopment.com.au/</span></a><span style="font-family:Cambria">)
held in Melbourne in May 2012, as a joint project of the Cultural Development Network and the Centre for Cultural Partnerships</span></span></span><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family:Cambria">, University of Melbourne.</span></p>
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