Populisme et politique culturelle

Populism and cultural policy, René Rizzardo. The return of populism in France challenges the role of cultural policies in the constitution of the link between individuals and the Nation. Obviously many television practices carry a cultural populism based on profitability. But it is within the framework of local cultural policies that the populism of "cultural taste" expresses the refusal of multiculturalism and the diversity of artistic expressions that characterize it the most clearly. The Populist choices being carried out in municipalities held by the National Front pose the question of the relative failure of Malraux's project of the democratization of culture. On the other hand, decentralization can open the way to cultural policies enrooted in the local fabric, open to artistic innovation and diversity, which would be the best antidote to the rise of populism.Rizzardo René. Populisme et politique culturelle. In: Vingtième Siècle, revue d'histoire, n°56, octobre-décembre 1997. Les populismes. pp. 99-104