인문학으로서의 문화정책 연구

Abstract

This paper is to introduce part of cultural policy studies in Japan, and to think about the approach to cultural policy studies from a humanities perspective. Generally speaking, the approach to cultural policy studies focused less on culture than on policy. By doing that, the reflexive recognition of the concept of culture, which cultural policy regarded as its precondition or tried to reconceptualize repeatedly, has been relatively isolated, and at the same time the established concept of culture circulated as common sense, has been exclusively used by cultural policy. In the case of Japan, we can say that such a tendency started in the latter half of the 1960s and continued until the present, and in the process, Japanese cultural policy selectively remanufactured dynamic and heterogeneous cultures and normalized them. Under these conditions, what do we have to do to maintain critical tension with cultural policy and the concept of culture manufactured by cultural policy, beyond contributing to the present cultural policy directly and practically? If it is possible to regard such a question as the only perspective of the humanities, the purpose of this paper is to think about the possibility and limitations of cultural policy studies connecting such questions with cultural policy studies. This kind of perspective has emerged in recent cultural policy studies in Japan. So I, after summing up the scope of cultural policy studies in Japan, investigated approaches to cultural policy studies practiced by a humanities perspective in Japan, and argued its limitations, especially focusing on the place of contemporary producers of art and culture, and on the problem of taxpayer sovereignty.