About the Journal
Presentation
In the last two decades, cultural management in Latin America has undergone a process of formalization that starts with the recognition and making visible of the practical knowledge of the cultural agents who design and implement cultural action in the various territories of the region, but also, from the dialogue between various disciplines, professions, and cultural practices from which they appropriate and apply a diversity of knowledge to address problems, needs, and interests in the cultural field.
Recently, cultural management has emerged as an academic discipline that is in the process of building its own disciplinary matrix, which is characterized and differentiated mainly by having cultural action as a central element of its professional, academic, and community practices. For this reason, and as in all social practices, in cultural management there are different currents, models and/or perspectives that configure the way in which reality is seen and intervened, or, better said, the way in which cultural action is designed and implemented, because depending on their conceptions of culture and the purposes of cultural action, it will depend on how it is configured and developed.
Latin American cultural management has been characterized by a strong emphasis and commitment to making visible and addressing cultural problems and needs that occur in the territories, because it does not conceive the development and access to cultural goods and services as an end, but as one of several means to achieve an end: the transformation of society.
The first Congress of the RedLGC held in Santiago de Chile (2014) and the second in Cali, Colombia (2017) highlighted the collective will to meet and exchange between different cultural agents in the public, private, community and university spheres who have cultural practice as their main task or support in personal and social life.
In virtue of this, the Latin American Network of Cultural Management convenes the 3rd Latin American Congress of Cultural Management, whose main theme is "Cultural action for social transformation." Its purpose is to debate and agree on the conceptual, methodological, operational, political and ethical implications that this orientation of cultural work entails for practical, professional and academic purposes, whose agreements will be published as a declaration as a guide for the training, research and professional practice of cultural management in Latin America in the coming years.
General objective
To collectively debate the conceptual, methodological, operational, political, ethical and aesthetic implications of a cultural action aimed at social transformation, based on the experiences, contributions and learnings of cultural agents, with the aim of generating agreements that serve as a roadmap for Latin American cultural management.
Specific objectives
- To make visible and socialize the results and progress of research, intervention and/or creation projects aimed at social transformation.
- To identify and assess the trends and trajectories of Latin American cultural management.
- To promote the exchange between cultural managers, professionals, students, teachers and researchers in the field of cultural management, cooperation, cultural policies and practices in Latin America.
