Publications
Publications
[REPORT] A PART FOR THE WHOLE Report of the survey Sustainable and Ecological Practices on the Performing Arts in Portugal
Scientific Coordination: Vânia Rodrigues and Fernando Matos de Oliveira
Researchers: Vânia Rodrigues and António Ventura
Translation: Joanna Jago and Vitor Sousa
Technical Support: Sílvia Carballo
Design: Diana Ferreira
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[BOOK CHAPTER] Our problem, not our fault: semi-peripheral perspectives on ‘greening’ cultural policy and management
University of the Arts Belgrade (in press)
[ARTICLE] Greening our future: cultural policy and the ecological imperative
Article of Vânia Rodrigues in the European Journal of Cultural Management and Policy (in press) - awarded Best Research Paper by ENCATC The European Network of Cultural Policy and Management.
[ARTICLE] Embracing ambivalence: responsibility discourses around 'greening' the performing arts
Article of Vânia Rodrigues and António Ventura in the journal Annals of Leisure Research (in review)
[BOOK] Creative Production and Management in the Performing Arts: Modus Operandi
This volume takes stock of the ways in which the regimes of artistic creation and production intersect, lending special attention to emergent discourses and work models of producing and managing theatre, dance, and performance – through the lenses of creative producers.
This book suggests that social protection failures, longstanding institutional shortcomings, and the dilemmas of social and environmental sustainability are pushing arts management and production modis operandi towards a review of its expansionist assumptions and managerial hyper-productivist processes. By documenting singular ‘counter-management’ experiences in Portugal, Belgium, France and Brazil, this study makes a strong claim for a reassessment of the role of producers and art managers as reflective practitioners and as pivotal elements towards more sustainable artistic practices.
This study will be of great interest to students and scholars in theatre and performance studies, policymakers, and cultural professionals.
Edited by Routledge
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[BOOK] AS PRODUTORAS - Produção e Gestão Cultural em Portugal. Trajectos Profissionais (1990-2019)
Throughout her career as a cultural manager, Vânia Rodrigues has met countless producers and managers linked to the performing arts. In this book, she gathers and problematises twenty-three accounts, presented in direct speech by eighteen women and five men, professionals from different generations, backgrounds and contexts. The collection and systematisation of this set of professional trajectories gives an account of the very constitution of the field of cultural production in Portugal: it recognises its decisive role in the country's artistic development; it considers its contribution to the sustainability of creative structures; and it analyses, in a particularly incisive way, the intersection that has taken place in recent decades between the regimes of creation and production. This volume fills a noticeable gap in the Portuguese publishing scene and invites us to reflect on working models in the cultural and creative sector.
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[BOOK] Modus Operandi: Produção e Gestão nas Artes Performativas
Researcher Vânia Rodrigues once again pays attention to the experiences and perspectives of cultural producers and managers working in the field of performing arts, questioning the ethical and critical foundations of their professional practice. Here, arts management is considered in relation to models of collective work and the broader context of cultural policy in which it operates.