CULTURE AND REGIONS IN SERBIA - CHALLENGES FOR DEVELOPMENT
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cultural regional hierarchy, cultural (de)centralization, regional development mismatches, territorial capitalAbstract
The main aim of the paper is to analytically and critically analyse the selected indicators of the cultural dimension of the territorial capital of regions in Serbia (the educational structure of the population, the number and distribution of the representative cultural institutions, associations, audiences and programs), as a set of various cultural possibilities and limitations which influence the internal development of the regions, take part in their positioning within the national frame and simultaneously strengthen or impede the social actors associated with it. Using secondary data sources (the results of relevant researches and the official cultural statistical data), the study was based on the application of the statistical and comparative-analytical methods. The results show significant regional differences in the educational structure of the population and the institutional cultural capacities, which are clearly reflected in the cultural offer and public cultural consumption. The cultural domination of the north at the expense of the south of Serbia is particularly noticeable, whereby the cultural regional hierarchy is established, dominated by the Region of Belgrade. The analysed cultural capacities significantly (re)produce the existing developmental asymmetries in Serbia, whereby it turns out that the developed regions are at the same time culturally favorized. Some of the possible recommendations include the decentralization and the cultural sensibilization of regional development strategies, with the more successful use of cultural capacities as potential for the development of economically devastated regions in Serbia, with transformation of the national regulations from the command to the cooperative model of development management.
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