In this research anthology on the interplay between national and Nordic funding for culture Kulturanalys Norden has invited researchers from each Nordic country to contribute with a chapter. The publication is an independent continuation of the previous anthology Cultural policy in the Nordic welfare states – Aims and functions of public funding for culture with contributions from the same group of researchers. Focus for the new anthology is to explore funding systems from a multi-level approach. The analyses primarily concern the interplay between money streams, rather than the interplay between actors at the Nordic and national level. Therefore, ‘interplay’ is primarily investigated in terms of overlap between different funding systems, that is, the identification of instances where funding from different systems coincide (or not). The analyses also make visible application strategies rather than financial results.
The anthology is based on a joint empirical dataset on public applications-based funding for individual artists and artistic organisations. The Nordic Culture Fund and Nordic Culture Point have provided the opportunity to use data on applications to their funding programmes during 2022. The dataset was finalised by Kulturanalys Norden, and each researcher used it as an important empirical building block in their analyses, together with national data of each researcher’s choice. While the authors have chosen which issues to focus on in their respective chapters, all in one way or another concern themselves with the question of how different levels of funding interact or not.
The following researchers have contributed with a chapter on each Nordic country: Trine Bille from Copenhagen Business School (Denmark), Sakarias Sokka from Cupore (Finland), Erna Kaaber and Erla Rún Guðmundsdóttir from Bifröst University (Iceland), Ola K. Berge from Telemarksforsking (Norway), and Katja Lindqvist from Lund University (Sweden). In addition, Erik Vestin, statistician at Kulturanalys Norden, has provided a chapter on Nordic funding, based on the established dataset.
The research anthology has been produced by Kulturanalys Norden and edited by Jenny Johannisson, senior lecturer at Högskolan i Borås.
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