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Community Cultural Development - A Policy For Social Change?, Michelle Evans

Michelle Evans

This thesis explores the area of Community Cultural Development (CCD) through a longitudinal Case Study. It postulates that the potential long-term outcomes of a successful CCD process, including the creation of communities and networks, as well as continuing cultural development for the participants, are frustrated by arts policy and funding. The analysis of the Case Study is contextualised by an examination of the history of CCD in Australia and the cultural policy framework for the funding of CCD projects.

This thesis addresses the following question: Do the long-term outcomes - of creating networks, creation of communities and continued cultural development …