Processes and conditions of Paraguay’s cultural policies within the framework of the social issue of MERCOSUR

• Vladimir Velázquez Moreira

  Universidad Católica Nuestra Señora de la Asunción, Paraguay

From the cultural perspective, the formulation of the Strategic Plan of Social Action (PEAS) constitutes, from the point of view of political discourse, an accolade to the difficult process of strategically positioning this field in the political agenda. The analysis of the cultural or symbolic implications of social policies and the analysis of the social implications of cultural policies have to do with the effort to construct a transversal approach, a major challenge for public policies such as culture, but not only of them. It is necessary to explore these implications and, taking them as a reference framework, to analyze some ongoing processes, both at the regional and national levels. What are the institutional conditions, favorable or unfavorable, in Paraguay related to management public of the cultural? The question, which guides the development of this article, operates under two premises: regional integration can not advance substantively without the strategic assumption of the cultural, cultural can not substantially advance without rethinking the modes of public management from the perspective of transvesality.

1. Vladimir Velázquez Moreira, Universidad Católica Nuestra Señora de la Asunción, Paraguay

   Paraguayo. Egresado de Ciencias de la Comunicación. Masterando en Antropología Social en la Universidad Católica de Asunción. Miembro fundador del Instituto de Ciencias Sociales del Paraguay (ICSO).

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