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In: | Canadian Journal of Communication, 26, 2001, 1, p. 31-52 |
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University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress)
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Media Type: | Article, E-Article |
Physical Description: | 31-52 |
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ISSN: |
0705-3657
1499-6642 |
DOI: | 10.22230/cjc.2001v26n1a1194 |
published in: | Canadian Journal of Communication |
Language: | English |
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Collection: | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (CrossRef) |
<jats:p>The CBC/Radio Canada is in a policy trap which is endemic to all cultural policy today. A casualty of the 1990s policy focus on the cultural industries, the traditional public interest discourse has failed to gain a toehold in arguments favouring a continued state role in the development of cultural capital. This paper explores a cultural capital perspective and argues for a closer link with and co-ordination between education and culture in policy fields at both the theoretical and operational levels. The paper concludes that the instrumental utility of a cultural capital approach is ultimately too limiting. What is needed is a theoretical shift from public interest rhetoric to a democratic rights-based discourse. Such a shift in the conceptual underpinnings of cultural policy implies radical decentralization and deconcentration of control within the CBC. New models of democratic cultural governance are needed to reclaim public broadcasting.</jats:p> |