Cultural management and policy in Latin America / edited by Raphaela Henze and Federico Escribal.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Cultural management and policy in Latin America -- Thinking cultural management from the South: new frames for the "Western" discourse informed by Latin America -- Cultural management in Latin America and Europe: between the ashes and the flame -- Thinking of the South as if there were no north: an exercise in culture-based imagination -- Cultural management: the Central American perspective -- Managing culture in South America: an approach to the dimensions of a professional practice -- Part II. Cultural management in different Latin American countries -- Cultural Management in Argentina: political agenda and challenges for practitioners and researchers -- Cultural management in Paraguay: emergence and development of the discipline in a conservative and restricted cultural field -- Cultural Management in Chile: between professionalization and the emergence of a public intervention category -- Cultural management in Ecuador: Genealogy and power relations within the constitution of a field -- Cultural management in Brazil: persisting in times of uncertainty -- Cultural management in Uruguay: a country synonymous with a river -- Cultural management in Bolivia: a journey through history -- Cultural management in Mexico: from precariousness to development -- Cultural Management in Peru: the role of the Ministry of Culture in challenging times.