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Dutch-Moroccan Cultural Cooperation? A Discourse on Professional Network

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This chapter offers the African cultural leaders, those involved in the management of their local arts sector, but also those that want to establish the continent and her heritage and current creative practice on the international field, some insight into how they are viewed by the rest of the world. To do this, a case of long-term exchange between a country from the geographical North (the Netherlands) and a country from the geographical South (Morocco) was chosen, especially for the fact that they do not share any historical colonial bonds but do have a shared history that dates back over 400 years. This history includes a large migration of Moroccans to the Netherlands in the previous century, which resulted in a large diaspora of North Africans making their mark on Dutch culture. The hope is that by using two different methods (content analysis and social network analysis) and looking at their shared heritage and the cultural relations between these countries, it is possible to shed some light on the themes of this book: neo-colonialism, diplomacy, soft power, and sustainability. This will be done based on contemporary cultural policies and some data on their current cultural exchange.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    In this period, the Netherlands and Belgium were separated into two countries, making that some of these merchants would now be considered Flemish.

  2. 2.

    About 25% of the Dutch population has a migration background of one generation or less (CBS, 2020).

  3. 3.

    This strategy is not unique to North Africa and is quite common for most countries outside the geographical North (Boulil, 2019; Hampel, 2017).

  4. 4.

    This database has been made public in 2018 and since then can be accessed through https://dutchculture.nl/en Data before 2017 is messier, but for Morocco an accurate sample was provided by DutchCulture.

  5. 5.

    N = 166. 3.6% of the actors are not part of the cultural ecology. i.e. restaurants, stadia, etc.

  6. 6.

    The average of the two policy periods shows that this change is a little bit smaller when put into perspective, with an average of 62.1% Dutch nationals in the network from 2014 through 2016 and an average of 56.5% from 2017 through 2019.

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A special thanks go out to DutchCulture, the Dutch cultural institute, for providing this data on international cultural export used in this chapter.

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Boulil, D. (2022). Dutch-Moroccan Cultural Cooperation? A Discourse on Professional Network. In: Afolabi, T., Ogunnubi, O., Ukuma, S.T. (eds) Re-centering Cultural Performance and Orange Economy in Post-colonial Africa. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-0641-1_5

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