Abstract

VEGA, Paola De la. Cultural management and despolitization: when we were called managers. Índex [online]. 2016, n.2, pp.96-102. ISSN 2477-9199.

This article gives a critical approach to the emergence of cultural management in Ecuador and Latin America as an arising field of knowledge in the 1990s, in a context of development aid programs, neoliberal policies, and structural adjustments, including multiculturalism and globalization in form of national aperture and regional integration. Located in these complex geopolitical relations, cultural management is a technology of governance of the conduct (Richard, 2010, 1979) and a strategy for the depoliticization of the artistic and cultural practices on a communitarian basis, fully valid in this decennium. Artistic projects, dialogical communities and their contexts, the epistemology of difference, activism, education and popular communication are some of the fundamental approaches of actual academic debates with a historical perspective based on an epistemology of Latin-American cultural management. These levels embody debates that aim to destabilize common places, structured and dichotomic models of intervention and governing cultural management, through an exam of forms of organization and models of governance set up through interdependence, reproductive economies, and forms of cultural production that challenge dominant principles of management.

Keywords : cultural management; government technology; situated knowledge; social technologies; contextualized practices; epistemology of Latin American cultural management.

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