Pan African Cultural Heritage Economic Development
Terms and Definitions
“Promoting Cultural Economics and Commerce throughout the Global Marketplace”
Cultural economics is the application of economic analysis to the creative and performing arts, the heritage and cultural industries, in both the public and private sectors. It is concerned with the economic organization of the cultural sector and with the behavior of producers, consumers and governments in that sector. The subject includes a range of approaches, mainstream and radical, neoclassical, welfare economics, public policy and institutional economics and it also espouses interdisciplinary analysis connected to these topics. Cultural economics is the branch of economics that studies the relation of culture to economic outcomes.
Culture: Here, 'culture' is defined by shared beliefs and preferences of respective groups. Programmatic issues include whether and how much culture matters as to economic outcomes and its relationship to mainstream society and institutions. The cultural clusters can include the arts, history, traditions, civil rights and religion; using the culture of micro-enterprise businesses.
Heritage: Here, ‘heritage’ refers to something inherited from the past. The word has several different senses, including: National Heritage, an inheritance of geography, landscape and landforms; and Kinship, the relationship between entities that share a genealogical origin.
Cultural Heritage: Cultural heritage is the legacy of physical artifacts and intangible attributes of a group or society: man-made heritage. The best examples are art, food, music, monuments, ethnic communities and districts.
Cultural Arts: Cultural arts refer to transformation and a collaboration of different art forms. The term embodies creative thinking and critique, which encompasses the analyses of contemporary visual culture alongside other art forms i.e. visual art, literature, music, theatre, film, dance, etc. Cultural arts help to explain the world in which we live, worldview and often challenge current ideas, thoughts and practice. In general, cultural arts are multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and cross-genre. Cultural arts are less about definition and more about meaning and making sense of our current environment through an exploration of creativity.
Cultural Heritage Tourism or Diaspora Tourism: A branch of tourism oriented towards the cultural heritage of the location where tourism is occurring. The National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States defines heritage tourism as, "travelling to experience the places and activities that authentically represent the stories and people of the past’ and to experience that authentically represent the cultural experience and traditions of the past and present
Pan Africanism: An ideology and movement that encourages the solidarity of Africans worldwide. It is based on the belief that unity is vital to economic, social, and political progress and aims to “unify and uplift” people of African descent. The ideology asserts that the fate of all African peoples and countries are intertwined. At its core Pan-Africanism is “a belief that African peoples, both on the continent and in the Diaspora, share not merely a common history, but a common destiny”. The largest Pan-African organization is the African Union.
Capitalism: America’s economic and social systems are based on the principle of “Capitalism” from a historic, but skewed, European social system of class and status. The system is economic and social based for the integration, operation, and acceptance of all sub-cultures into to economic and social process. Faith, traditions, beliefs, opportunity, education, class and status are intertwined in this unique system.
Cultural economics is the application of economic analysis to the creative and performing arts, the heritage and cultural industries, in both the public and private sectors. It is concerned with the economic organization of the cultural sector and with the behavior of producers, consumers and governments in that sector. The subject includes a range of approaches, mainstream and radical, neoclassical, welfare economics, public policy and institutional economics and it also espouses interdisciplinary analysis connected to these topics. Cultural economics is the branch of economics that studies the relation of culture to economic outcomes.
Culture: Here, 'culture' is defined by shared beliefs and preferences of respective groups. Programmatic issues include whether and how much culture matters as to economic outcomes and its relationship to mainstream society and institutions. The cultural clusters can include the arts, history, traditions, civil rights and religion; using the culture of micro-enterprise businesses.
Heritage: Here, ‘heritage’ refers to something inherited from the past. The word has several different senses, including: National Heritage, an inheritance of geography, landscape and landforms; and Kinship, the relationship between entities that share a genealogical origin.
Cultural Heritage: Cultural heritage is the legacy of physical artifacts and intangible attributes of a group or society: man-made heritage. The best examples are art, food, music, monuments, ethnic communities and districts.
Cultural Arts: Cultural arts refer to transformation and a collaboration of different art forms. The term embodies creative thinking and critique, which encompasses the analyses of contemporary visual culture alongside other art forms i.e. visual art, literature, music, theatre, film, dance, etc. Cultural arts help to explain the world in which we live, worldview and often challenge current ideas, thoughts and practice. In general, cultural arts are multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and cross-genre. Cultural arts are less about definition and more about meaning and making sense of our current environment through an exploration of creativity.
Cultural Heritage Tourism or Diaspora Tourism: A branch of tourism oriented towards the cultural heritage of the location where tourism is occurring. The National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States defines heritage tourism as, "travelling to experience the places and activities that authentically represent the stories and people of the past’ and to experience that authentically represent the cultural experience and traditions of the past and present
Pan Africanism: An ideology and movement that encourages the solidarity of Africans worldwide. It is based on the belief that unity is vital to economic, social, and political progress and aims to “unify and uplift” people of African descent. The ideology asserts that the fate of all African peoples and countries are intertwined. At its core Pan-Africanism is “a belief that African peoples, both on the continent and in the Diaspora, share not merely a common history, but a common destiny”. The largest Pan-African organization is the African Union.
Capitalism: America’s economic and social systems are based on the principle of “Capitalism” from a historic, but skewed, European social system of class and status. The system is economic and social based for the integration, operation, and acceptance of all sub-cultures into to economic and social process. Faith, traditions, beliefs, opportunity, education, class and status are intertwined in this unique system.