TY  - JOUR
TT  - THE ROLE OF THE CERVANTES INSTITUTE IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CULTURAL POLICY OF SPAIN SINCE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF DEMOCRACY AND BEYOND
AU  - Papaioannou, Katerina
PY  - 2017
DA  - August
DO  - 10.18769/ijasos.337156
JF  - IJASOS- International E-journal of Advances in Social Sciences
JO  - IJASOS
PB  - OCERINT International Organization Center of Academic Research
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 2411-183X
SP  - 607
EP  - 610
VL  - 3
IS  - 8
KW  - Cultural policy
KW  - democratic Spain
KW  - Cervantes Institute
N2  - The objective of the study is to highlight the action plan of Spain in orderto further promote its cultural sector after the establishment of a democraticregime which followed Franco's death in 1975. Spain intended to prepare acomprehensive cultural plan with clear objectives and determine the means forachieving it. We focus on the decisive initiative of the establishment of theCervantes Institute and discuss sectors of its action as well as how Spain expandedand exploited the strong potential of Cervantes Institute. Our aim is toinvestigate whether Spain,having started a new chapter in its political history, exploited the power ofculture and implemented a new well-structured and active cultural strategy.The Cervantes Institute was initially designed with an aim to mapand accurately record the state of the Spanish language all over the world, tocreate access paths to native Spanish population in different countries and toconnect with them gaining their alliance and support. The essence and work ofthe Cervantes Institute was certainly multidimensional and complex and wasstrongly based on the cultural strength of the Spanish language which formed aninternational, dynamic connection channel. However, there were several majororganizational inefficiencies and drawbacks which the Cervantes Instituteshould overcome. After all, the successful implementation of the culturalpolicy incarnated by the Cervantes Institute was an important bet not only forthe Institute but for the entire Spain, as well.In this context, we present and analyze in detail how Spain designed and implemented a renovatedcultural policy highlighting the crucial role of the Cervantes Institute andfurther discuss whether Spaineventually managed to achieve a leading role at an international level.
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UR  - https://doi.org/10.18769/ijasos.337156
L1  - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/339552
ER  -