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Papers by Svetlana Hristova
DIVINATIO, 2023
Globalization, spelled out as the triumph of neoliberalism and global market economy in the 1980s... more Globalization, spelled out as the triumph of neoliberalism and global market economy in the 1980s, with its advent in 1990s entered the
phase of the great uncertainty (Robertson), gradually turning our life into confluence of crises (Chomsky). Today’s post-pandemic new normal is analyzed as a structural eff ect of the world risk society (Beck). It involves an emerging safety-and-security-lead culture, dominated by the ethos of avoiding risks and seeking for sustainability in all spheres of human life; growing medicalization, enabled by further digitalization, techno-medical quantifi cation and totalizing observation of all aspects of human existence, leading to new unions between political power, medical expertise, and technology – safetycracy (Agamben). Analyzing COVID-19 as a dress rehearsal of risk society, the paper discusses three major effects of the pandemics as systematic consequences of the process of globali zation: the deglobalization, including mobility halt and re-bordering of nation-states, on the one hand, hyper-digitization, on the other, and development of safety-lead new global as a negation of the neoliberal
format of globalization.
Социологически проблеми, 1991
Story 1-Cultural Industries for Sustainable Development? THREE ROLES FOR CULTURE IN SUSTAINABLE D... more Story 1-Cultural Industries for Sustainable Development? THREE ROLES FOR CULTURE IN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Thriving on complexity Culture Development Sustainability or sustainable development? Social and cultural sustainability: same or different? Policy Story 2-The Stories Museums Tell Multiple contributions of culture to sustainable development Supporting Sustainability-A self-standing role for culture in sustainable development 29 Connecting sustainability-The mediating role of culture for sustainable development 30 Creating sustainability-The transformative role of culture Year Agency Event or Publication 2003 UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritageratified by +150 countries 2004 United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) Adoption of 'Agenda 21 for Culture' 2005 UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions-ratified by +130 countries 2007 UN UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples 2007 Fribourg Group Fribourg Declaration on Cultural Rights 2009 UN Human Rights Council Established a post of Independent Expert in the field of cultural rights for a 3-year period (extended) 2010 UN General Assembly Resolution re: connection between culture and developmentadopted 2010 United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG)
Zarządzanie w Kulturze, 2017
Социологически проблеми, 2010
... By Svetlana Hristova* ... In a case-study of Manchester as an exemplification of a cosmopolit... more ... By Svetlana Hristova* ... In a case-study of Manchester as an exemplification of a cosmopolitan and entrepreneurial city, Craig Young, Martina Diep and Stephanie Drabble revealed that although the 'cosmopolitan' city centre is marked out as different, but this is a form of ...
European cities are contributing to the development of a more sustainable urban system that is ca... more European cities are contributing to the development of a more sustainable urban system that is capable of coping with economic crises, ecological challenges and social disparities in different nation-states and regions throughout Europe. This book reveals in a pluralistic way the emerging models of European cities as generators of sustainable development, and the special contribution of culture to this process. It addresses both a deficit of attention to the role of small and medium-sized cities in European sustainable development, and an underestimation of the role of culture, arts and creativity for integrated development of the city as a prerequisite for urban sustainability. On the basis of a broad collection of case studies throughout Europe, representing a variety of regionally specific cultural models of sustainable development, the book investigates how participative culture, community arts, and more generally, creativity of civic imagination contribute to the goal of a sust...
Zarządzanie w Kulturze, 2017, 18, z. 1, s. 1–16, 2017
In order to understand the specificity of the European model of cultural heritage policy, we shal... more In order to understand the specificity of the European model of cultural heritage policy, we shall
first take account of the main changes in the late modern world which pre-determined the repositioning
of culture and cultural heritage in the world economy; then we shall trace the reasons leading
to the current reappraisal of cultural heritage in European public policies, and finally we shall
reveal the main trends in the European policies for cultural heritage, which form a distinguishable,
coherent long-term approach that presumably can be qualified as ‘the European model’.
Research in Urban Sociology, 2006
... 2. The post-totalitarian transformation of the urban environment, marked by the coexistence o... more ... 2. The post-totalitarian transformation of the urban environment, marked by the coexistence of new, luxurious buildings and ''semi-demolished and plundered con-structions in a deplorable condition'' are described by the Bulgarian sociologist Maya Kelyan (2004) (Kejnrh, 2004 ...
On the basis of empirical evidence from a comparative study of public spaces in five European cit... more On the basis of empirical evidence from a comparative study of public spaces in five European cities (Sofia, Budapest, Manchester, St. Petersburg and Lvov) the author comes to conclusion that more than ever urban public space at the present moment turns into arena of clash between private and public interests, on the one hand, and, on the other, a cross-point between official urban policy and increasing self-enlightened consciousness of the 'urbanites' as a process of critical public debate. From such point of view recent social developments on the territory of European cities contest the Habermasian diagnosis, that in late modern societies the critical discourse is non-public, while the public activities are non-critical. The public life of modern cities forms part of new cultural policy understood as a result of complex interplay between citizens and key actors of urban governance.
The unprecedented transformation of European cities into autonomous actors in the global economic... more The unprecedented transformation of European cities into autonomous actors in the global economic, financial, workforce and symbolic markets, and simultaneously, their new role as key stakeholders in the process of reimagining common European identity determines the growing importance of the public space as well as the increased social awareness about it on European level where principles of multilayered governance take place. It is interesting to analyse the position of Central and East European cities in this transformation.
Books by Svetlana Hristova
European cities are contributing to the development of a more sustainable urban system that is ca... more European cities are contributing to the development of a more sustainable urban system that is capable of coping with economic crises, ecological challenges and social disparities in different nation-states and regions throughout Europe.
This book reveals in a pluralistic way the emerging models of European cities as generators of sustainable development, and the special contribution of culture to this process. It addresses both a deficit of attention to the role of small and medium-sized cities in European sustainable development, and an underestimation of the role of culture, arts and creativity for integrated development of the city as a prerequisite for urban sustainability. On the basis of a broad collection of case studies throughout Europe, representing a variety of regionally specific cultural models of sustainable development, the book investigates how participative culture, community arts, and more generally, creativity of civic imagination contribute to the goal of a sustainable future for small and medium-sized cities.
This is an essential volume for researchers and postgraduate students in urban studies, cultural studies, cultural geography and urban sociology as well as for policymakers and practitioners wanting to understand the specificity of European cities as hubs of innovation, creativity and artistic industriousness.
European cities are contributing to the development of a more sustainable urban system that is capable of coping with economic crises, ecological challenges and social disparities in different nation-states and regions throughout Europe.
This book reveals in a pluralistic way the emerging models of European cities as generators of sustainable development, and the special contribution of culture to this process. It addresses both a deficit of attention to the role of small and medium-sized cities in European sustainable development, and an underestimation of the role of culture, arts and creativity for integrated development of the city as a prerequisite for urban sustainability. On the basis of a broad collection of case studies throughout Europe, representing a variety of regionally specific cultural models of sustainable development, the book investigates how participative culture, community arts, and more generally, creativity of civic imagination contribute to the goal of a sustainable future for small and medium-sized cities.
This is an essential volume for researchers and postgraduate students in urban studies, cultural studies, cultural geography and urban sociology as well as for policymakers and practitioners wanting to understand the specificity of European cities as hubs of innovation, creativity and artistic industriousness.
CONTENTS
Introduction
Svetlana Hristova, Milena Dragićević Šešić, and Nancy Duxbury
I. Culture and sustainable development of European cities – what are the issues?
1. Cultural sustainability in small and medium-sized cities: What are the issues?
Helmut K. Anheier and Michael Hoelscher
2. Civic urbanity: Looking at the city afresh
Charles Landry
3. We, European cities and towns: The role of culture for the evolving European model of urban sustainability
Svetlana Hristova
4. Culture, quality of life, and sustainable urban development
Aldo Milohnić
II. Europolis as a project: Envisioning more sustainable cities
5. European cities as cultural projects: Where is culture in urban sustainability policy?
Nancy Duxbury
6. Culture in development strategies of small and medium-sized European cities: A comparative analysis
Elisabete Caldeira Neto Tomaz
7. Cultural policy-making by networking: Local cooperation and global competition in small and medium-sized Italian cities
Davide Ponzini
8. European Capitals of Culture and urban diplomacy
Rolf Hugoson
III. Culture for sustainable development in urban policies and practices
9. A place in the city: Recognizing creative inclusion
François Matarasso
10. Cultural access and activation: Civic participation in local sustainable communities
Anita Kangas and Sakarias Sokka
11. Provincial Poland: Sustainable development and culture in small and medium-sized towns
Katarzyna Plebańczyk
12. Culture, sustainable development, and innovation: The case of Norrby, Sweden
Jenny Johannisson
13. The town is the venue: “Place-making” at the heart of cultural policy
David Stevenson and Rachel Blanche
IV. Making the city resilient: Building communities through artivism
14. Mobilizing urban neighbourhoods: Artivism, identity, and cultural sustainability
Milena Dragićević Šešić, Aleksandar Brkić, and Julija Matejić
15. Land, people, and art: An attempt to renew social identity in the Czech Republic
Miloslav Lapka and Eva Cudlínová
16. Strumica, the city I want to live in!
Loreta Georgievska Jakovleva and Mišel Pavlovski
17. Artistic/design practices, art education, and sustainable development: A question of design or of mutual transition?
Nelly van der Geest
DIVINATIO, 2023
Globalization, spelled out as the triumph of neoliberalism and global market economy in the 1980s... more Globalization, spelled out as the triumph of neoliberalism and global market economy in the 1980s, with its advent in 1990s entered the
phase of the great uncertainty (Robertson), gradually turning our life into confluence of crises (Chomsky). Today’s post-pandemic new normal is analyzed as a structural eff ect of the world risk society (Beck). It involves an emerging safety-and-security-lead culture, dominated by the ethos of avoiding risks and seeking for sustainability in all spheres of human life; growing medicalization, enabled by further digitalization, techno-medical quantifi cation and totalizing observation of all aspects of human existence, leading to new unions between political power, medical expertise, and technology – safetycracy (Agamben). Analyzing COVID-19 as a dress rehearsal of risk society, the paper discusses three major effects of the pandemics as systematic consequences of the process of globali zation: the deglobalization, including mobility halt and re-bordering of nation-states, on the one hand, hyper-digitization, on the other, and development of safety-lead new global as a negation of the neoliberal
format of globalization.
Социологически проблеми, 1991
Story 1-Cultural Industries for Sustainable Development? THREE ROLES FOR CULTURE IN SUSTAINABLE D... more Story 1-Cultural Industries for Sustainable Development? THREE ROLES FOR CULTURE IN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Thriving on complexity Culture Development Sustainability or sustainable development? Social and cultural sustainability: same or different? Policy Story 2-The Stories Museums Tell Multiple contributions of culture to sustainable development Supporting Sustainability-A self-standing role for culture in sustainable development 29 Connecting sustainability-The mediating role of culture for sustainable development 30 Creating sustainability-The transformative role of culture Year Agency Event or Publication 2003 UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritageratified by +150 countries 2004 United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) Adoption of 'Agenda 21 for Culture' 2005 UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions-ratified by +130 countries 2007 UN UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples 2007 Fribourg Group Fribourg Declaration on Cultural Rights 2009 UN Human Rights Council Established a post of Independent Expert in the field of cultural rights for a 3-year period (extended) 2010 UN General Assembly Resolution re: connection between culture and developmentadopted 2010 United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG)
Zarządzanie w Kulturze, 2017
Социологически проблеми, 2010
... By Svetlana Hristova* ... In a case-study of Manchester as an exemplification of a cosmopolit... more ... By Svetlana Hristova* ... In a case-study of Manchester as an exemplification of a cosmopolitan and entrepreneurial city, Craig Young, Martina Diep and Stephanie Drabble revealed that although the 'cosmopolitan' city centre is marked out as different, but this is a form of ...
European cities are contributing to the development of a more sustainable urban system that is ca... more European cities are contributing to the development of a more sustainable urban system that is capable of coping with economic crises, ecological challenges and social disparities in different nation-states and regions throughout Europe. This book reveals in a pluralistic way the emerging models of European cities as generators of sustainable development, and the special contribution of culture to this process. It addresses both a deficit of attention to the role of small and medium-sized cities in European sustainable development, and an underestimation of the role of culture, arts and creativity for integrated development of the city as a prerequisite for urban sustainability. On the basis of a broad collection of case studies throughout Europe, representing a variety of regionally specific cultural models of sustainable development, the book investigates how participative culture, community arts, and more generally, creativity of civic imagination contribute to the goal of a sust...
Zarządzanie w Kulturze, 2017, 18, z. 1, s. 1–16, 2017
In order to understand the specificity of the European model of cultural heritage policy, we shal... more In order to understand the specificity of the European model of cultural heritage policy, we shall
first take account of the main changes in the late modern world which pre-determined the repositioning
of culture and cultural heritage in the world economy; then we shall trace the reasons leading
to the current reappraisal of cultural heritage in European public policies, and finally we shall
reveal the main trends in the European policies for cultural heritage, which form a distinguishable,
coherent long-term approach that presumably can be qualified as ‘the European model’.
Research in Urban Sociology, 2006
... 2. The post-totalitarian transformation of the urban environment, marked by the coexistence o... more ... 2. The post-totalitarian transformation of the urban environment, marked by the coexistence of new, luxurious buildings and ''semi-demolished and plundered con-structions in a deplorable condition'' are described by the Bulgarian sociologist Maya Kelyan (2004) (Kejnrh, 2004 ...
On the basis of empirical evidence from a comparative study of public spaces in five European cit... more On the basis of empirical evidence from a comparative study of public spaces in five European cities (Sofia, Budapest, Manchester, St. Petersburg and Lvov) the author comes to conclusion that more than ever urban public space at the present moment turns into arena of clash between private and public interests, on the one hand, and, on the other, a cross-point between official urban policy and increasing self-enlightened consciousness of the 'urbanites' as a process of critical public debate. From such point of view recent social developments on the territory of European cities contest the Habermasian diagnosis, that in late modern societies the critical discourse is non-public, while the public activities are non-critical. The public life of modern cities forms part of new cultural policy understood as a result of complex interplay between citizens and key actors of urban governance.
The unprecedented transformation of European cities into autonomous actors in the global economic... more The unprecedented transformation of European cities into autonomous actors in the global economic, financial, workforce and symbolic markets, and simultaneously, their new role as key stakeholders in the process of reimagining common European identity determines the growing importance of the public space as well as the increased social awareness about it on European level where principles of multilayered governance take place. It is interesting to analyse the position of Central and East European cities in this transformation.
European cities are contributing to the development of a more sustainable urban system that is ca... more European cities are contributing to the development of a more sustainable urban system that is capable of coping with economic crises, ecological challenges and social disparities in different nation-states and regions throughout Europe.
This book reveals in a pluralistic way the emerging models of European cities as generators of sustainable development, and the special contribution of culture to this process. It addresses both a deficit of attention to the role of small and medium-sized cities in European sustainable development, and an underestimation of the role of culture, arts and creativity for integrated development of the city as a prerequisite for urban sustainability. On the basis of a broad collection of case studies throughout Europe, representing a variety of regionally specific cultural models of sustainable development, the book investigates how participative culture, community arts, and more generally, creativity of civic imagination contribute to the goal of a sustainable future for small and medium-sized cities.
This is an essential volume for researchers and postgraduate students in urban studies, cultural studies, cultural geography and urban sociology as well as for policymakers and practitioners wanting to understand the specificity of European cities as hubs of innovation, creativity and artistic industriousness.
European cities are contributing to the development of a more sustainable urban system that is capable of coping with economic crises, ecological challenges and social disparities in different nation-states and regions throughout Europe.
This book reveals in a pluralistic way the emerging models of European cities as generators of sustainable development, and the special contribution of culture to this process. It addresses both a deficit of attention to the role of small and medium-sized cities in European sustainable development, and an underestimation of the role of culture, arts and creativity for integrated development of the city as a prerequisite for urban sustainability. On the basis of a broad collection of case studies throughout Europe, representing a variety of regionally specific cultural models of sustainable development, the book investigates how participative culture, community arts, and more generally, creativity of civic imagination contribute to the goal of a sustainable future for small and medium-sized cities.
This is an essential volume for researchers and postgraduate students in urban studies, cultural studies, cultural geography and urban sociology as well as for policymakers and practitioners wanting to understand the specificity of European cities as hubs of innovation, creativity and artistic industriousness.
CONTENTS
Introduction
Svetlana Hristova, Milena Dragićević Šešić, and Nancy Duxbury
I. Culture and sustainable development of European cities – what are the issues?
1. Cultural sustainability in small and medium-sized cities: What are the issues?
Helmut K. Anheier and Michael Hoelscher
2. Civic urbanity: Looking at the city afresh
Charles Landry
3. We, European cities and towns: The role of culture for the evolving European model of urban sustainability
Svetlana Hristova
4. Culture, quality of life, and sustainable urban development
Aldo Milohnić
II. Europolis as a project: Envisioning more sustainable cities
5. European cities as cultural projects: Where is culture in urban sustainability policy?
Nancy Duxbury
6. Culture in development strategies of small and medium-sized European cities: A comparative analysis
Elisabete Caldeira Neto Tomaz
7. Cultural policy-making by networking: Local cooperation and global competition in small and medium-sized Italian cities
Davide Ponzini
8. European Capitals of Culture and urban diplomacy
Rolf Hugoson
III. Culture for sustainable development in urban policies and practices
9. A place in the city: Recognizing creative inclusion
François Matarasso
10. Cultural access and activation: Civic participation in local sustainable communities
Anita Kangas and Sakarias Sokka
11. Provincial Poland: Sustainable development and culture in small and medium-sized towns
Katarzyna Plebańczyk
12. Culture, sustainable development, and innovation: The case of Norrby, Sweden
Jenny Johannisson
13. The town is the venue: “Place-making” at the heart of cultural policy
David Stevenson and Rachel Blanche
IV. Making the city resilient: Building communities through artivism
14. Mobilizing urban neighbourhoods: Artivism, identity, and cultural sustainability
Milena Dragićević Šešić, Aleksandar Brkić, and Julija Matejić
15. Land, people, and art: An attempt to renew social identity in the Czech Republic
Miloslav Lapka and Eva Cudlínová
16. Strumica, the city I want to live in!
Loreta Georgievska Jakovleva and Mišel Pavlovski
17. Artistic/design practices, art education, and sustainable development: A question of design or of mutual transition?
Nelly van der Geest