Cultural management and cultural studies

a possible encounter, a present challenge

Abstract

Cultural studies try to incommode, to be politically incorrect, because, when they apply their principles, they generate registers, memories, testimonies and social organization of the communities they work with. Such communities generally are subaltern groups in precarious conditions.  On the other hand, the cultural management is an academic discipline in construction, which is going through a process of being an instrument to generate cultural activities to become a corpus of knowledge that wants to establish their knowledge as source and space of reflexion and action about “the cultural”.

Epistemologically speaking, the cultural studies and the culturale managemente are in the oposite poles of the cultural spectrum, however, a crossroads is not only posible but desirable among the principles and possibilities of these approaches to understand and approach to the cultural discussion and action.  

This article goes aboout the posible confluences between these two knowledge and actions bodies to propose a more conciouss, commited work, as well as more respectful of the communities the cultural management works with.