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Joost Smiers
Dr. Joost Smiers is Professor (em.) of Political Science of the Arts, Research Fellow in the Research Group Arts & Economics at the Utrecht School of the Arts, the Netherlands, and formerly visiting professor at the Department of World Arts and Cultures, UCLA, Los Angeles. He has written, lectured and researched extensively in the area of decision-making in cultural matters worldwide, on new visions of creative and intellectual property, copyright and the public domain, on freedom of expression versus responsibility, and on cultural identities. His books include Arts under Pressure. Promoting Cultural Diversity in the Age of Globalisation (London: Zed Books 2003). The book has been published as well in Serbian, Spanish, Portuguese, Thai and Arab. Korean, Chinese, Tamil, Singalese and Indonesian translations are under way. He has edited together with Nina Obuljen a book on Unesco’s Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions. Making it Work (Zagreb: CultureLink 2006). He prepares a book on Imagine! No copyright. Better for artists, diversity and the economy (together with Marieke van Schijndel) and a book on audio and visual noise in the public space. Joost Smiers lives in Amsterdam.
