Nordic research on cultural policy in retrospect: The Nordic Journal of Cultural Policy

Abstract

The article aims to give an account of Nordic cultural policy research during the last twenty-odd years. It builds on the scrutiny of the content of the Nordic Journal of Cultural Policy, more specifically the peer reviewed scientific articles. The study covers the period 1998-2020 and 275 articles have been included. The presentation will give a quantitative overview as well as a qualitative analysis on certain aspects of the material studied. The study concludes that this research area is vast and varied even though the concept of cultural policy that is in focus is almost exclusively the narrow one. Over forty different subject areas are identified, the most common dealing with national cultural policy. However, seven issues within cultural policy are found to be almost neglected. A few trends are identified, demonstrating the shifting interests among the scholars within the field. These scholars are also studied and some patterns regarding academic affiliation, gender, and nationality are identified. The qualitative analysis focuses on the question of what kind of theoretical frameworks that have been explicitly advocated by the Nordic scholars. However, it must be stated that many other theories have been actively used. This shows a picture of a multidisciplinary and diverse field of research.

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