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Aging and Arts Policy: Interrogating Perceptions of Older People in South Korea

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2017, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Arts Administration, Education and Policy.
Aging has become global demographic phenomena as well as policy problem in most countries. While the demographic dynamics of older population has been complicated with the emergence of baby boomer generation, there has been little research attention to the change of arts and cultural participation and demands of older people in the public policy field. This dissertation explores the arts participation of older population through a policy perspective on arts and aging in case of South Korea. In particular, based on the argument that aging is socially constructed, it examines how the perceptions of the national- and local-level arts and aging policy have intertwined with each other via a specific policy program, Seoul International Senior Film Festival. Scrutinizing the dominant deficit discourse upon older population in public policy field, this empirical study aims to critically examine cultural welfare perceptions of older population under current arts and aging policy in South Korea. Also, through the analysis of the Seoul International Senior Film Festival, I investigate how perceptions of older Koreans has been constructed and represented in both aging policy and arts policy planes. Finally, conducting a thematic analysis of the films by older festival participants, I stress potential benefits of informal arts participation of target group for understanding changing arts and cultural demands of older population.
Margaret Wyszomirski (Advisor)
Wayne Lawson (Committee Member)
Karen Hutzel (Committee Member)
229 p.

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  • Yoon, A. (2017). Aging and Arts Policy: Interrogating Perceptions of Older People in South Korea [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1503016550067467

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Yoon, AhYoung. Aging and Arts Policy: Interrogating Perceptions of Older People in South Korea . 2017. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1503016550067467.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Yoon, AhYoung. "Aging and Arts Policy: Interrogating Perceptions of Older People in South Korea ." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1503016550067467

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)