Le néolibéralisme dans les politiques culturelles : le discours des médiateurs du chèque culture en France

Whilst The French Government is about to launch a cultural voucher targeting the 18-years-olds, we aim to have a glance at the many similar tools developed during the 1990s by the French local authorities focusing on their neoliberal origins. We will show in the following paper that if the local officials acting as trailblazers of the use of vouchers were clearly neo-liberal, their successors endeavoured to define them as a functional tools, avoiding some hard political debates on its depth nature. The neoliberal mediators of the vouchers within local authorities used first to develop a very politicized discourse whose structure has been kept by their successors who spread vouchers throughout the French regions, developing it only formally without modifying its political meaning.