« The circulation of models of cultural policies in Turkey », International Congress on Public Policy, Panel T18P05 - Institutions, ideas, and networks in cultural policy

International audienceIn Turkey as elsewhere, exchanges and circulations played an important role in the construction of national culture and the way of conceiving the role of culture and cultural policies. Nowaday, the debates on cultural policy are renewed in the context of globalisation or of the negotiation for Turkey’s adhesion to the European Union. In parallel, culture has now a great economic dimension and is more and more used as a tool of development, of growth, or of tourism. The initiatives aiming to encourage ‘democratization’, ‘cultural diversity’, or the localisation of cultural policies also go hand in hand with. One witnesses a diversification of actors involved in the making of cultural policies (private, associative, international); one also witnesses the circulation of objects, ideas, instruments, or practices and modes of action, bringing together new stakes for culture and cultural policies. This contribution aims to question the ways in which the circulations participate in the construction of cultural policies in Turkey today in order to rethink the co-production of cultural policies, of their spaces and territories, as well as the plurality of the conceptions of culture carried by cultural policies. It is also a way of deconstructing the operations of transfer of policies and to question the “models” of cultural policies, the “best practices”, the phenomena of cultural co-operations, or of translations.cette communication analyse l'évolution de la politique culturelle turque ces dernières années à la suite d'un certain nombre de réformes initiées par le gouvernement de l'AKP. Alors que les politiques culturelles de la République turque ont longtemps obéit à l'objectif du "nation buiding", ces réformes ont étéconduites au nom d'un modèle d'inspiration britannique. il s'agira de mesurer la réalité de la mise en oeuvre de ce modèle, ses effets chez les créateurs et sur le public. La plupart des projets initiés sont contestés par les organisations professionnelles et les artistes qui dénoncent un interventionnisme autoritaire menaçant leur liberté de création