The production of sited and engaged knowledge

Paths and findings of a global ethnography on cultural and artistic contemporary education

Abstract

This paper about contemporary cultural education discusses the methodological procedures (fundamentals, processes and procedures) of a global ethnography, without forgetting the enabled findings. It starts by debating the global ethnography possibilities, of disclosing the local
resistance, interpretations and incorporations, and exposes the four extensions of the extended case
method to three contemporary art galleries, three cities European Capitals of Culture (Liverpool,
Vilnius, and Porto), during the 1st decade of this century. Secondly, the article shows singular and plural modes of producing museum and city dynamics – deindustrialization, decentralization and
de/re-privatisation – while analyses cultural and educational strategies of each gallery by the singular combination of pedagogical, cultural, aesthetic, social, and political purposes.