The writer is Director of the Arts and Cultural Heritage Division in the Finnish Ministry of Education. She discusses ethical dimensions of cultural policy through issues of national identity as a particular cultural position and consequent protectionist cultural policies introduced, for example, by the official governmental canon of Danish culture in 2006.
The article is a revised version of an article by Hannele Koivunen, published in Reilu kulttuuri (Fair Culture) by Hannele Koivunen and Leena Marsio.
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