Between cultural theory and policy : the cultural policy thinking of Pierre Bourdieu, Michel de Certeau and Regis Debray

Abstract

This study explores the cultural policy thinking of three major French theorists. The introduction surveys relations between different types of research and cultural policy making both in the anglophone world and in France, and places the decision to focus on these three thinkers within a wider context of cultural policy research in France. Chapter one, which will cover a certain amount of ground familiar to specialists in the field, traces how the cultural policy reflection of these figures emerges against or negotiates the policy model represented by André Malraux. Chapters two to four, which constitute the main substance of the study, move across these three oeuvres with a sustained focus on their cultural policy implications and prescriptions. The summary and concluding remarks draw together the elements of a ‘triangulated’ framework for cultural policy reflection developed over the study as a whole.

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