Indexes of cultural offer and diversity: alternatives for creative and cultural ecosystems characterization in urban areas

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  • Rafael Henrique Cruz de Sousa Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.48160/25913530di10.102

Abstract

Measuring the availability of infrastructure and the consumption of products and cultural services using quantitative indexes stands for a methodological opportunity to identify inequalities, dynamics and clustering, when its interpretation considers elements of specific socioeconomic and territorial contexts.

This study is based on the Stirling’s framework (1998) which proposes: (1) to review areas of the economic literature where there exists a strong interest in diversity; (2) to discuss the diversity concept from an interdisciplinary point of view; and (3) to analyse the economic diversity by using variety, balance, disparity and diversity indexes.

Additionally, using the cultural studies as a theoretical framework, considering the urban areas as an analysis object, this article also proposes a qualitative interpretation of the indexes under the cultural ecosystems perspective (Boisbaudry, 2014), which comprehends the dynamics of production, circulation and use of cultural services and activities as a system, where these parts are not isolated, but in continuous interaction with each other. A dynamic of complementarity, where the parts are not organized vertically, but horizontally: sharing the same territory and having equivalent level of importance in the totality of the cultural context, where each part is necessary for the existence of the others.

 

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Author Biography

Rafael Henrique Cruz de Sousa, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales

Es Administrador Público por la Universidade Metodista de São Paulo, Brasil, y postgraduado en Gestión Cultural por la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Es candidato a Magíster en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, mención Comunicación, por la Universidad Nacional de Quilmes y Doctorando en Ciencias Sociales en FLACSO Argentina. Actualmente se desempeña como docente en la Escola Latino-Americana de Altos Estudos em Cultura (ELACult), Brasil, y en el Área de Crítica de Artes de la Universidad Nacional de las Artes. Es investigador asociado del Centro Latino-Americano de Estudos sobre Cultura (CLAEC), Brasil, e Investigador Invitado del Área de Comunicación y Cultura de FLACSO Argentina.

Published

2019-11-29

How to Cite

Cruz de Sousa, R. H. (2019). Indexes of cultural offer and diversity: alternatives for creative and cultural ecosystems characterization in urban areas. Divulgatio. Academic Postgraduate Profiles, 4(10), 147–164. https://doi.org/10.48160/25913530di10.102

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