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Literature
Barada, Valerija; Primorac, Jaka and Buršić, Edgar (2016). Osvajanje prostora rada. Uvjeti rada organizacija civilnog društva na području suvremene kulture i umjetnosti. Zagreb: Zaklada “Kultura nova”.
Bilić, Paško, Valecic, Monika, Prug, Toni (2022) Monitoring media pluralism in the digital era : application of the Media Pluralism Monitor in the European Union, Albania, Montenegro, the Republic of North Macedonia, Serbia and Turkey in the year 2021. Country report : Croatia Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom (CMPF), Media Pluralism Monitor (MPM), https://hdl.handle.net/1814/74684
Central Bureau of Statistics (2011). Statistički ljetopis Republike Hrvatske 2011 (Statistical Yearbook of the Republic of Croatia 2011). Zagreb: Central Bureau of Statistics of the Republic of Croatia.
Central Bureau of Statistics (2012). Statistički ljetopis Republike Hrvatske 2012 (Statistical Yearbook of the Republic of Croatia 2012). Zagreb: Central Bureau of Statistics of the Republic of Croatia.
Central Bureau of Statistics (2013). Statistički ljetopis Republike Hrvatske 2013 (Statistical Yearbook of the Republic of Croatia 2013). Zagreb: Central Bureau of Statistics of the Republic of Croatia.
Central Bureau of Statistics (2015). Statistički ljetopis Republike Hrvatske 2015 (Statistical Yearbook of the Republic of Croatia 2015). Zagreb: Central Bureau of Statistics of the Republic of Croatia.
Central Bureau of Statistics (2020a). Culture and Arts 2018, Statistical Reports, Zagreb: Croatian Bureau of Statistics of the Republic of Croatia.
Central Bureau of Statistics (2019b). The Household Budget Survey, Basic characteristics of household consumption, 2017, First release. Year: LV, Zagreb, 29 MARCH, 2019, NUMBER: 14.1.2. Zagreb: Croatian Bureau of Statistics of the Republic of Croatia.
Central Bureau of Statistics (2020b). ‘Artistic production and live performances, 2019/2020 Season ’First Release. Year: LVII. Zagreb, 22 December, Number: 8.3.2. Zagreb: Croatian Bureau of Statistics of the Republic of Croatia.
Croatian Bureau of Statistics (2022a) Statistical Reports. Basic Schools and Kindergartens and Other Legal Entities Implementing Preschool Education Programmes, End of 2020/2021 and Beginning of 2021/2022 School/Pedagogic Year. Zagreb: Croatian Bureau of Statistics of the Republic of Croatia.
Croatian Bureau of Statistics (2022b) Statistical Reports. Upper Secondary Schools and Students' Boarding Homes, End of 2020/2021 and Begining of 2021/2022 School Year. Zagreb: Croatian Bureau of Statistics of the Republic of Croatia.
Croatian Bureau of Statistics (2022c) Statistical Reports. Higher Education, 2021. Zagreb: Croatian Bureau of Statistics of the Republic of Croatia.
Croatian Bureau of Statistics (2022d) ARTISTIC PRODUCTION AND LIVE PERFORMANCES, 2021/2022 SEASON. First Release. Zagreb: Croatian Bureau of Statistics of the Republic of Croatia.
Croatian Bureau of Statistics (2022e) Culture and Arts 2020, Statistical reports. Zagreb. Croatian Bureau of Statistics.
Cvjetičanin, Biserka and Katunarić, Vjeran (eds.) (2001).Strategija kulturnog razvitka: Hrvatska u 21. stoljeću. (The Strategy of Cultural Development: Croatia in the 21st Century). Zagreb: Ministarstvo kulture RH.
Ernst & Young (2018). Ugovor o pružanju usluga pripreme natječajne dokumentacije za projekt 'Digitalizacija kulturne baštine''. Izvješće o analizi trenutnog stanja. Ožujak 2018. Godine. Zagreb: Ministarstvo kulture
HAVC (2013). Cinderellas, Queens and Godmothers of Croatian Film 2012/2013. Zagreb: Croatian Audiovisual Centre.
HAVC (2016). Women in Croatian Film 2015/2016. Zagreb: Croatian Audiovisual Centre.
HAVC (2021). Brojke i slova. Zagreb: Hrvatski audiovizualni centar.
HND (2021). Anketa HND-a: U Hrvatskoj trenutno aktivno najmanje 924 tužbi protiv novinara i medija [HND survey: At least 924 active lawsuits against journalists and the media] Available at https://www.hnd.hr/anketa-hnd-a-u-hrvatskoj-trenutno-aktivno-najmanje-924-tuzbi-protiv-novinara-i-medija
Jelavić, Dražen (2022). Amatersko stvaralaštvo. In: Matanovac-Vučković et al (eds.) Pregled kulturnog razvoja i kulturnih politika u Republici Hrvatskoj. Zagreb: Ministarstvo kulture I medija RH, pp.230-234.
Levačić, Dora (2017). Istraživanje o položaju umjetničkog obrazovanja u srednjim školama te pristupu mladih kulturno-umjetničkoj proizvodnji. Available at the following link.
Matanovac-Vučković et al (eds.) (2022) Pregled kulturnog razvoja i kulturnih politika u Republici Hrvatskoj. Zagreb: Ministarstvo kulture i medija RH.
Ministry of Culture (2017a). Strateški plan Ministarstva kulture 2018.-2020. (Strategic Plan for the period 2018-2020). Zagreb: Ministry of Culture.
Ministry of Culture (2017b). Nacionalna strategija poticanja čitanja 2017. – 2022. (National Reading Support Strategy 2017 – 2022.) Zagreb: Ministry of Culture. Available at: https://min-kulture.gov.hr/UserDocsImages/dokumenti/Nacionalna%20strategija%20poticanja%20%C4%8Ditanja_tekst.pdf
Ministry of Culture (2020). Ruksak (pun) kulture – umjetnost i kultura u vrtiću i školi u 2019. godini (Backpack Full of Culture – arts and culture in kindergarten and school in 2019). Zagreb: Ministry of Culture. Available at the following link.
Ombudsperson for Persons with Disabilities (2014). Parallel Report on the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Republic of Croatia on the occasion of the review of the initial report of the Government of the Republic of Croatia before the UN Committee on the rights of persons with disabilities. Zagreb. Available at: http://posi.hr/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Croatia-Parallel-report-Disability-Ombudswoman.doc
OPD (2021). Izvješće o radu Pravobraniteljice za osobe sa invaliditetom. Zagreb: POSI. Available at: https://posi.hr/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Izvjesce-o-radu-Pravobranitelja-za-osobe-s-invaliditetom-za-2021.-godinu.pdf
Perišić, Ljiljana (2022). Tradicionalni kulturni centri. In: Matanovac-Vučković et al (eds.) Pregled kulturnog razvoja i kulturnih politika u Republici Hrvatskoj. Zagreb: Ministarstvo kulture I medija RH, pp.235-240.
Primorac, Jaka (2020). Compendium of Cultural Policies and Trends in Europe, 20th edition 2020. Country Profile: Croatia. Council of Europe/ERICarts: Available from World Wide Web: <http:// www.culturalpolicies.net>.
Primorac, Jaka (2021a). Od projekta do projekta. Rad i zaposlenost u kulturnom sektoru. Zagreb: BLOK.
Primorac, Jaka (2021b). Izgubljeni prihodi i pronađena solidarnost: utjecaj prvog vala pandemije bolesti COVID-19 na kulturni sektor u jugoistočnoj Europi. Sociologija i prostor, 59 (219), 219-240. https://doi.org/10.5673/sip.59.0.8
Primorac, Jaka and Obuljen Koržinek, Nina (2017). Compendium of Cultural Policies and Trends in Europe, 18th edition 2017. Country Profile: Croatia. Council of Europe/ERICarts: Available from World Wide Web: <http:// www.culturalpolicies.net>.
Primorac, Jaka, Obuljen Koržinek, Nina and Uzelac, Aleksandra (2017). Access to culture in Croatian cultural policy: moving towards explicit policies, International Journal of Cultural Policy, 23:5, 562-580, DOI: 10.1080/10286632.2015.1102906
Primorac, Jaka, Barada, Valerija and Buršić, Edgar (2020). Creative Workers in Permanent Crisis: Labor in the Croatia’s Contemporary Arts and Culture. In: Kiriya, Ilya; Kompatsiaris, Panos; Mylonas, Yannis (eds). The Industrialisation of Creativity and Its Limits. Cham: Springer, pp. 31-48. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-53164-5_3
Rašić Bakarić, Ivana, Bačić, Katarina and Božić, Ljiljana (2015). Mapiranje kreativnih i kulturnih industrija u Republici Hrvatskoj (Mapping Cultural and Creative Industries in the Republic of Croatia) Zagreb: Ekonomski institut.
Tonković, Željka, Marcelić, Sven and Krolo, Krešimir (2017). „Kulturna potrošnja, društvene nejednakosti iregionalne razlike: istraživanje Eurobarometra u Hrvatskoj 2013. godine“. Sociologija i prostor, 55 (2): 187-208.
Tonković, Željka; Krolo, Krešimir and Marcelić, Sven (2020). Klasika, punk, cajke: kulturni kapital i vrijednosti mladih u gradovima na jadranskoj obali, Zadar: Sveučilište u Zadru; Hrvatska sveučilišna naklada.
Vidović, D. (ed.) (2021). Utjecaj pandemije COVID-19 i potresa na kulturni sektor u Republici Hrvatskoj. Izvještaj o rezultatima istraživanja. Zagreb: Zaklada “Kultura nova” & Ministarstvo kulture i medija RH.
Žuvela, Ana (2016). Krojeno po mjeri? Prakse i tendencije kulturnog obrazovanja u Hrvatskoj. Zagreb: Zaklada “Kultura nova”.
Žuvela, Ana (2022). Instrumenti kulturne politike. In: Matanovac-Vučković et al (eds.) Pregled kulturnog razvoja i kulturnih politika u Republici Hrvatskoj. Zagreb: Ministarstvo kulture I medija RH, pp.30-39.
KEY ORGANISATIONS AND PORTALS
Cultural policy making bodies
Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia (Ministarstvo kulture RH)
Arms' length bodies
Croatian Audiovisual Centre (Hrvatski audiovizualni centar)
Independent regulators
Council for Electronic Media (Vijeće za elektroničke medije)
Agency for Electronic Media (Agencija za elektroničke medije)
https://www.aem.hr/
Cultural Foundations
Kultura Nova Foundation
Professional associations and unions
Croatian Composers' Society (Hrvatsko društvo skladatelja)
Association of Croatian Writers (Društvo hrvatskih književnika)
Croatian Writers’ Society (Hrvatsko društvo pisaca)
http://www.hrvatskodrustvopisaca.hr/hr/
Croatian Association of Dramatic Artists (Hrvatsko društvo dramskih umjetnika)
Croatian Culture Assembly (Hrvatski sabor kulture)
Croatian Film Directors’ Guild (Društvo hrvatskih filmskih redatelja)
Croatian Producers’ Association (Hrvatska udruga producenata)
Croatian Film Workers Association (Hrvatsko društvo filmskih djelatnika)
Croatian Freelance Artists' Association (Hrvatska zajednica slobodnih umjetnika)
Croatian Musicians' Union (Hrvatska glazbena unija)
Croatian Journalists' Association / CJA (Hrvatsko novinarsko društvo)
Croatian Union of Cultural Workers (Hrvatski sindikat djelatnika u kulturi
Trade Union of Croatian Journalists (Sindikat novinara Hrvatske)
Cultural research and statistics
Croatian State Archive (Hrvatski državni arhiv)
Croatian Bureau of Statistics (Državni zavod zastatistiku)
Institute for Development and International Relations – Department for Culture and Communication
https://irmo.hr/the-department-for-culture-and-communication/
Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research (Institut za etnologiju i folkloristiku)
Institute of Lexicography (Leksikografski institut)
Museum Documentation Centre (Muzejski dokumentacijski centar)
National and University Library (Nacionalna i sveučilišna knjižnica)
Culture / arts portals
CultureNet Croatia (links to all relevant cultural sites in Croatia)
Kulturpunkt Portal (portal dedicated to independent culture)
Theatre Portal
Film Portal
Music portal