Violence and the value of culture | Pascal Gielen | TEDxGroningen

Can the absence of culture be the key to increased violence?

Pascal Gielen (1970) is director of the research center Arts in Society at the Groningen University where he is associate Professor sociology of art. Gielen editor in-chief of the book series ‘Arts in Society’ (Fontys School of Fine and Performing Arts, Tilburg & Groningen University). He has written serveral books on contemporary art, cultural heritage and cultural politics. Books are ‘Being an Artist in Post-Fordist Times’ (2009-NAi), ‘The Murmuring of the Artistic Multitude. Global Art, Memory and Post-Fordism’ (2009, 2010 and 2015 - Valiz), ‘Teaching Art in the Neoliberal Realm. Realism versus Cynicism’ (2013-Valiz), ‘Creativity and other Fundamentalisms’ (2013-Mondriaan), ‘Institutional Attitudes. Instituting Art in a Flat World’ (2013-Valiz), ‘The Ethics of Art’ (2014-Valiz) and ‘Aesthetic Justice’ (2014-Valiz). The research of Gielen focuses on cultural politics and the institutional contexts of the arts. Books of Gielen are translated in English, Korean, Russian, Spanish and Turkish.

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OI! why is video title in English and audio is dutch and there's no sub for english either.