Fair Cooperation

Table Of Contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• About the author
• About the book
• This eBook can be cited
• Table of Contents
• Foreword by Professor Dr. Wolfgang Schneider
• Acknowledgements
• Note on the Text and Translation
• List of Abbreviations
• 1. Art, Cooperation, Cultural Policy. An Introduction
• 1.1 Subject, Questions, and Objectives of the Study
• 1.2 The Research as it Stands
• 1.3 The Structure of the Study
• 2. Artistic Cooperation and Cultural Diplomacy. Clarification of Terms
• 2.1 Cooperation: Defining the Term
• 2.2 Cooperation: Demands of a Foreign Cultural Policy
• 2.2.1 The Goethe-Institut: Key Actor in German-Indian Cultural Relations
• 2.2.2 “Max Mueller Bhavan”: The Goethe-Institut in India
• 2.3 Cooperation: Theoretical Frame of Reference
• 3. India: a Cultural-Political Orientation
• 3.1 India’s Central Government: the “Patroness” of Culture?
• 3.2 Current Challenges of the Indian Cultural Landscape
• 3.2.1 Cultural Spaces: No Room in a Huge Country
• 3.2.2 Professionalism through Passion: Limited Chances for Training
• 3.2.3 State Financing of Culture: Complex and Corrupt
• 3.2.4 Alternative Sources of Funding: Their Limits and Potential
• 3.2.5 The Indian Cultural Worker as Master in the Art of Living: The Consequences
• 3.3 India’s Cultural Foreign Relations: Conservative and Invisible
• 3.4 India’s Cultural Metropolises
• 3.5 The Cultural-Political Orientation: A Conclusion
• 4. German-Indian Cultural Encounters
• 4.1 “(In-)Finite Opportunities”: The Year of Germany in India from 2011 to 2012
• 4.2 German-Indian Partnerships in the Arts: A Conclusion
• 5. “Cooperative Partnerships” under the Microscope. An Analysis of the Practice
• 5.1 The Interests and Goals of German-Indian Cooperation
• 5.2 Partner Selection: Exclusive and One-Sided
• 5.3 Cultural Institutes: Organisers and Founders of Cooperative Projects
• 5.4 Time, Money, Space: The Parameters of every Cooperation
• 5.4.1 The Location: India
• 5.4.2 Time Limits: Too Short for a Challenging Cooperation
• 5.4.3 Financing: Short term and Short sighted
• 5.5 Context, Process, Result: The Levels of Cooperative Work
• 5.5.1 The Lack of Contextual Knowledge
• 5.5.2 The Orientation of the Cooperation: Process, Result, or both?
• 5.5.3 The Practice of Adaptation and Reproduction
• 5.5.4 Experimentation and Failure as Valuable Moments of Cooperation
• 5.6 The Challenges of International Partnerships: Intercultural Differences
• 5.7 The Short Life of Artistic Cooperations
• 5.8 The Loss of Experience
• 5.9 The Definition of Cooperation: Ideal and Reality
• 5.9.1 The Structure of Cooperation: Inequality leads to Hierarchy
• 5.9.2 “Equal Partnership” and “Equality of the Partners”: Principle, Goal, or Utopia?
• 6. Criteria for a Culture of Cooperation. Prospective Cultural Policy Measures
• 6.1 The “Development” of Partnership
• 6.2 The Definition of the Basis of Cooperation: Who wants What, Why, and How?
• 6.3 Understanding Cultural Contexts through Research
• 6.4 Intercultural Competence through Intercultural Training
• 6.5 Developing a Common Language
• 6.6 External Guidance: Context-sensitive Cultural Institutes and Sponsors
• 6.7 Context-oriented Transfer
• 6.8 Reciprocal Hosting, Project Phasing, Process-oriented Support
• 6.9 The Process as Result
• 6.10 A Culture of Experimentation and Failure
• 6.11 Ongoing Cooperative Work
• 6.12 The Exchange of Experiences: “We were trying to make sense…”
• 6.13 Fair Cooperation”: The Path to a “Cooperation based on Partnership”
• 7. Art, Cooperation, and Cultural Policy. Conclusions and Outlook
• Sources and Bibliography
• Series index