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Cultural Management Focused on Access, Participation, and Cultural Equality

Cultural Management Focused on Access, Participation, and Cultural Equality

Ivan Esco
Ivan Esco
Language: Dutch - ISBN: 9789403930237 - 526 pages
Paperback
€26.40
€26.40
Ivan Esco - INDEPENDENT ACADEMIC PUBLICATION

Synopsis

Cultural Management Oriented Towards Access, Participation and Cultural Equality, by Ivan Esco, presents cultural management as a tool for expanding opportunities, reducing inequalities and strengthening human development. Its interdisciplinary approach integrates social, territorial, institutional, economic, legal and technological dimensions. The book serves as a textbook, professional reference and practical framework for analysing, planning and evaluating cultural policies, organisations and projects. It addresses cultural inequality, poverty, territory, heritage, accessibility, inclusion, organisational management, project design, audiences, participation, governance, economics, entrepreneurship, communication, sustainability, ethics, legislation, technology and evaluation. A central contribution is its shift from a model focused on cultural consumption towards one in which people are also creators, professionals, decision-makers and co-producers of culture. It is aimed at cultural managers, students, researchers, policymakers, cultural institutions, social organisations and creative-sector professionals.

About Ivan Esco

Ivan Esco
The author has built a career that integrates entrepreneurship, research, social innovation, and the lifelong study of human behavior. His academic and professional journey has taken him across Spain, the United States, and Argentina, where he developed an international perspective on education, business, human diversity, and social development. Raised by an entrepreneurial father, he grew up in an environment where identifying social needs and creating business solutions were part of everyday life. This early influence inspired a lasting interest in understanding how organizations can generate positive social change. At eighteen, he began his entrepreneurial career. Since then, he has experienced both remarkable successes and significant setbacks, leading him to redefine prosperity. He came to understand that true wealth extends beyond financial achievement and found in knowledge, lifelong learning, research, observation, and practical experience a deeper and more enduring form of fulfillment. His career has included founding businesses and contributing to organizations focused on addiction recovery, family support, inclusive education, and social innovation. Through this work, he recognized a critical gap: although inclusion has advanced in supporting physical, cognitive, and neurological diversity, individuals with exceptional talents, giftedness, high abilities, and extraordinary intellectual potential remain largely overlooked in many educational systems. Guided by the belief that we are all lifelong learners, he pursued an interdisciplinary academic path grounded in a polymathic approach to knowledge. He has completed graduate and postgraduate studies in Circular Economy, Strategic Design for Innovation, Culture and Diversity, Gerontology and Long-Term Care, Inclusive Education and Society, Diversity and Inclusive Education, Intervention in Contexts of Risk and Social Vulnerability, and Addiction Prevention and Treatment. Alongside his academic work, he has developed social enterprises dedicated to sustainable social change while maintaining that knowledge is never complete. His interest in diversity is also personal. As a child, he experienced the limitations of standardized education and remains deeply grateful to his parents for nurturing his intellectual curiosity. Later, studying abroad introduced him to educational approaches that reinforced his conviction that diversity is not a barrier to learning but one of its greatest strengths. A lifelong student of philosophy and the human mind, culture, and society, he continues to explore the relationship between knowledge, creativity, education, and human development.

Product specifications

BindingPaperback
LanguageDutch
Publishing dateWednesday, 19 August 2026
Edition1
ISBN9789403930237
Pagecount526
Interior colorBlack/white
Size155 x 235 mm
PublisherIvan Esco - INDEPENDENT ACADEMIC PUBLICATION
AuthorIvan Esco
CategoryArt and culture > Other art and culture