From COVID-19 to national cultural policy: Understanding the importance of cultural infrastructure

Professor Kylie-Message Jones has written a piece for the ABCs Religion & Ethics

I want to suggest that increased public use of the term “cultural infrastructure” allows us to identify and account for the value of culture in more expansive ways than previously possible. Rather than attaching a market-driven price tag to cultural assets, for example, thinking infrastructurally makes it possible to see what is often taken for granted as an inherent but underfunded public “good”. This shifting understanding reflects an escalation in public understandings of cultural infrastructure and the value of diverse forms of cultural systems, practices, and products.

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