Descriptif d’enseignement – 2016/2017
Cycle Master
Course’s title: Culture as a goal in international policies
Enseignant(s): Catherine CULLEN
Fonction(s): Special Advisor to United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG), Expert for IFCD
(UNESCO)
Type de cours : ☒ Séminaire d’ouverture ☒ Semestre 2
Syllabus – Targets:
Presentation of the historic context of the role of culture in sustainable development and the importance of
a Sustainable Urbanisation Goal including Culture in the United Nations Summits, the SDGs of the post-2015
Agenda. Catherine Cullen and the students will interact by Skype with representatives of global organisations,
NGOs and other stakeholders (Asia, Latin America, Canada, Europe, Africa, etc) on what is at stake and how
they are involved.
Evaluation :
The students will be asked to present in written form (4-5 pages) the strategy and work of at least two NGOs
implementing projects on the inclusion of culture and/or sustainable urbanisation in any city chosen by the
student.
Plan – Séances :
1. Why is Culture an issue in international negotiations today?
- The United Nations in perspective: from development to sustainable development; how UNESCO evolved from
cultural development to cultural diversity; the multicultural NGOs and the new networks, both local to global.
“Policies responsive to cultural contexts can yield better,
sustainable, inclusive and equitable development
outcomes” UN General Assembly “Culture and sustainable development” A/C.2/68/L.69(2013)
- Exchanges via Skype with different stakeholders concerned.
2.
Is Culture a driver and enabler of development?
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“Culture as a driver and enabler of development” (Global Taskforce for Agenda post-2015,
“Culture as a Goal” paper for UN negotiations, Feb 2014)
25 years of academic research worldwide: the literature as it stands, the main tendencies,
methodological successes and failures. Different cultural approaches to culture.
Exchanges via Skype with academic specialist/networks of culture and sustainable development
3.
UCLG and the rise of local governments:
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The crucial importance of local governments within a context of fast, global urbanization.
What is United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG)?
Local governments versus national governments? Ten years of tension… and now?)
March 2015, Bilbao– First World Summit of Culture
Exchanges via Skype with different stakeholders
4. the UCLG Culture Committee and Agenda 21 for Culture:
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Why a world organisation dedicated to promoting the role of culture in sustainable development?
What is the Agenda21 for Culture? Who uses it, how, and what feedback?
Culture, the 4th pillar of sustainable development? An ongoing, global discussion
Interesting case studies: Quebec, Australia, Latin America, Europe…
Exchanges via Skype with various local governments and organisations involved in an Agenda 21
for Culture in different parts of the world
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& 6. The current negotiations around the UN post-2015 Agenda (2015)
and Habitat III (2016), (6h, in 2 parts):
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Part 1:
The 2000-2015 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
The second round, 2015-2030 and the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals)
Habitat III
The UN machine at work
Exchanges via Skype with different stakeholders
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Part 2:
How to lobby for a worldwide cause, through one example: the international lobbying
for a sustainable urbanization goal (who, what, where, how?)
The secondary lobbying for a cultural target within the sustainable urbanization goal
Exchanges with leaders, stakeholders and representatives of civil society.
Bibliographie :
On Culture and Sustainable Development:
-Brocchi, D. 2008. The cultural dimension of sustainability. in S. Kagan and V.
Kirchberg(eds.), Sustainability: A New Frontier for the Arts and Culture. Frankfurt: Verlag
für Akademische Schriften, p. 26-58.
-Cullen, C. (2009) ‘Lille and the Agenda 21 for Culture’, in J. Pascual (ed.), Cities, Cultures and Developments. Report no.
5. Barcelona: Committee on Culture of United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG).
-Duxbury, N, Cullen, C, Pascual, J (2013) ‘Cities, culture and sustainable development’, The Cultures and Globalization
Series, Volume 5, 2011/2012 (Sage, New York), Cultural Policy and Governance in a New Metropolitan Age
-Duxbury, N, Hosagrahar,J, Pascual, J (2016) ‘Why must culture be at the heart of sustainable urban development ?UCLG,
www.agenda21culture.net.
-Hawkes, J. (2001) The Fourth Pillar of Sustainability: Culture’s Essential Role in Public
Planning. Melbourne: Common Ground.
-Khun, T.S. (1962) The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press.
-Martí, J., Cullen, C., Lombardi, H., Sjöstedt, M., and Pascual, J. (2009) ‘Agenda 21 for culture : State of affairs and
perspectives’, in J. Pascual (ed.), Cities, Cultures and
Developments. Report no. 5. Barcelona: Committee on Culture of UCLG.
-Nurse, K. (2006) ‘Culture as the Fourth Pillar of Sustainable Development’, report prepared
for Commonwealth Secretariat, UK.
-Pascual, J. (2009) Culture and Sustainable Development: Examples of Institutional
Innovation and Proposal of a New Cultural Policy Profile. Barcelona: Committee on Culture of UCLG.
-Quebec Ministry of Culture, Communications and the Status of Women (QMCCSW)
(2009) : Notre culture, au coeur du développement durable: plan d’action
2009-2013. Quebec: QMCCSW.
-UNESCO (2005) Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions.
On Agenda 21 for Culture:
- Global Taskforce of Local and Regional Governments for Post-2015 : http://www.gtf2016.org/
-UNDP devoted a Human Development Report to cultural freedom in 2004 and opened a Thematic Window on “Culture
and Development” in the MDG Achievement Fund in 2006;
-The work of the UN Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights (since 2009), whose recent issues in focus include
the right to artistic freedom, memorialisation processes, access to cultural heritage, and cultural rights in divided and
post-conflict societies;
- The Outcome Document of the 2010 MDG Summit and “Culture and Development” UN General Assembly Resolutions
in 2010, 2011 and 2013;
- The UNESCO Hangzhou Declaration (2013), recognizing culture’s cross-cutting role across a variety of fields, advocated
for placing culture at the heart of all public policy, and to integrate culture in strategies to address the world’s most
pressing developmental challenges, such as environmental sustainability, poverty, and social inclusion.
- UCLG Culture Committee 6 reports: http://www.agenda21culture.net/index.php/documents/reports