新作坊

Back to the future: Rethinking French cultural policy, 1997-2002

摘要：

The article examines cultural policy in France during the third Socialist quinquennium, discussing the degree of conceptual change which took place in relation to the Ministry of Culture's two most prominent past incumbents, André Malraux and Jack Lang. It looks particularly at what positions were adopted by the Socialist Ministers of Culture Catherine Trautmann and Catherine Tasca with regard to Lang, their only Socialist predecessor. These positions are summarised as building on his achievements but attempting to move on from them, towards a modernised policy which, nonetheless, looked back to the first principles of cultural action (public service, education, animation ). The analysis concludes, however, by suggesting that policy was reconfigured rather than fundamentally rethought.