Topics from Cultural Goods to Cultural Heritage and Its Implications Regarding Theoretical Reflection and Region-Specific Italian Policies

Fabio Bacchini, Roberto Iannaccone () and Pietro Antonio Valentino
Additional contact information
Roberto Iannaccone: Italian National Institute of Statistics

Chapter Chapter 5 in Cultural Heritage in Japan and Italy, 2024, pp 65-79 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter analyses the reasons and effects of the semantic shift from the concept of cultural goods, which for a century has characterized Italian theoretical debate and sectoral policies, to that of cultural heritage. The introduction of this new category, codified in Italian legislation at the beginning of this century, has changed the criteria for selecting the objects and activities to be preserved (adding the identity criterion to the purely aesthetic one) and transforming an atomistic vision of “goods” in a holistic view of “heritage” as a set of contextualised and interrelated goods. The terminological shift has, thus, had significant effects both on legislation and sectoral policies and on the interdisciplinary theoretical debate opening new horizons and new meanings to the categories of heritage, preservation and enhancement. To understand the reasons for this shift and its effects, we have analysed the articles published since the end of the last century in the quarterly journal Economia della cultura, which has represented one of the reference points of the Italian and European debate on cultural economics. The analysis is based on textual mining techniques that aim to explore the relationship between the different words using the word cloud representation and specific statistical tools such as the bi-grams.

Keywords: Culture heritage; Cultural goods; Journal economia della cultura; Big data; Analysis large data sets (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:crechp:978-981-97-1499-5_5

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/9789819714995

DOI: 10.1007/978-981-97-1499-5_5

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Creative Economy from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().