Making Culture Count

1. Introduction: Making Culture Count
Lachlan MacDowall

Part I. Qualifying and Quantifying Cultural Value: Critical Accounts of the History and Politics of Cultural Measurement

2. A Critical History of Cultural Indicators
Emma Blomkamp

3. Culture, Value and Commensuration: The knowledge politics of indicators
Guy Redden

4. The Politics of Cultural Statistics: from Legitimisation to Critique (France 1960–1990)
Vincent Dubois

5. Growth and Depression in Hayek’s Garden: The Emotional Language of Accounting
Harriet Parsons

6. Assessing the Cultural Impact of Economics
Justin O’Connor

7. The Social Life of Cultural Value
Dave O’Brien, Pat Lockley

Part II. Making Culture Count in Political Contexts and Discourses

8. Cultural Measurement in International Development: The Need for Capacity Building in Cultural Statistics
José Pessoa

9. Creative Accounts: Reimagining Culture and Wellbeing by Tapping into the Global Movement to Redefine Progress
Geoff Woolcock, Melanie Davern

10. Making It Real: Measures of Culture in Local Sustainability Planning and Implementation
Nancy Duxbury, M. Sharon Jeannotte

11. Alternative Indicators of Wellbeing for Melanesia: Cultural values driving public policy
Jamie Tanguay

12. Heritage as a Cultural Measure in a Postcolonial Setting
José Antonio González Zarandona

Part III. Critical and Creative Approaches to Cultural Measurement Practice

13. Democratising Cultural Indicators: Developing a Shared Sense of Progress
Marnie Badham

14. The Metrics Syndrome: Cultural Scientism and Its Discontents
Arlene Goldbard

15. Accounting for Art in International Development: Insights from Artists’ Initiatives in Central America
Polly Stupples

16. A Holistic Framework for Evaluation of Arts Engagement
Kim Dunphy

17. New Approaches to Cultural Measurement: On Cultural Value, Cultural Participation and Cultural Diversity
Audrey Yue, Rimi Khan

18. Cultural Measurement on Whose Terms? Critical Friends as an Experiment in Participant-Led Evaluation
Sophie Hope

Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Cultural Policy, Media Studies, Children's Literature, Arts, Social Sciences, general