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Beyond arts and heritage, cultural capital encompasses various elements to include “diverse traditions, values, place, and social history… The stock of cultural capital, both tangible and intangible, is what we inherit from past generations and what we will pass onto future generations. Overall, it leads to quality of life and better knowledge of ourselves” (Creative City Network of Canada 2008: 2).
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The following explanation of cultural capital is provided by Phillips and Gordon (2009): “Cultural capital is an increasingly popular topic both from perspectives of economic-oriented analysis and in the context of community-based applications exploring societal accumulation and its outcomes. With its ascendancy, conceptual ideas about cultural capital and perceptions of it are changing. Prior definitions focused on arts and heritage, but new understandings and applications are now continually evolving.”
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Creative City Network of Canada. (2008). Cultural sustainability/cultural capital. Vancouver: Author. Retrieved January 18, 2008. www.creativecity.ca/news/special-edition-4/key-contexts-2.html
Phillips, R., & Shockley, G. (2009). Linking cultural capital conceptions to asset-based community development. In G. P. Green & A. Goetting (Eds.), Mobilizing communities: Asset building as a community development strategy. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
UNESCO. (2001). Universal declaration on cultural diversity. Paris: Author.
World Commission on Culture and Development. (1996). Our creative diversity. Paris: Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.
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Phillips, R. (2023). Cultural Capital. In: Maggino, F. (eds) Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17299-1_638
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