Contemporary academic studies about cultural policies in Brazil: analyses and tendencies

Abstract

Cultural policies in Brazil have effectively become a topic for academic studies since the first years of the 21st Century. Culture is traditionally a topic of academic research, especially in anthropology, or sociology or yet constituting other sub-areas of knowledge, like cultural history, cultural geography and cultural anthropology itself – just to mention a few examples. Some of the changes in the analysis that have occurred in the last decades are linked to the new roles specifically attributed to culture in contemporary societies. This article proposes to map and analysesamples of the recent tendencies found in academic studies about cultural policies. How is this area being set up? Which are the fields of knowledge in which these issues are addressed? Which are the regions of the country in which such studies are more prominent?