scholarly journals Literary Routes: Migration, Islands, and the Creative Economy

PMLA ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 131 (5) ◽  
pp. 1222-1238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Françoise Lionnet ◽  
Emmanuel Bruno ◽  
Jean-François
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Change ◽  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
World Literature ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Global South ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Creative Economy ◽  
Literary Marketplace ◽  
Human Diversity

Exploring the links among accelerating patterns of migration, homogenizing forces of globalization, and transnational sites of creativity, this essay highlights the contributions that francophone voices from islands of the global South have made to the diversification of the knowledge economy. We discuss the critical effectiveness of literature as an agent of cultural change, focusing on minor writers who reach wide audiences by negotiating new pathways into the literary marketplace. The Comoran Soeuf Elbadawi, the Malagasy Jean-Luc Raharimanana, the Mauritians Ananda Devi and Shenaz Patel, and the Tahitian Chantal Spitz instigate literary dialogues that underscore ways of reimagining our world and redefining world literature. The issues they raise reveal the enduring relevance of literary studies and its interpretive approaches to a full appreciation of human diversity, which cannot be captured by purely quantitative methods.

Against Global Literary Studies

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacob Edmond
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Literature ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
World Literature ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Institutional Frameworks ◽  
The World

Abstract Literary studies has taken a global turn through such institutional frameworks as global romanticism, global modernism, global anglophone, global postcolonial, global settler studies, world literature, and comparative literature. Though promising an escape from parochialism, nationalism, and Eurocentrism, this turn often looks suspiciously like another version of Anglo-European imperialism. This essay argues that, rather than continue the expansionary line of recent decades, global literary studies must allow other perspectives to draw into question its concepts, practices, and theories, including those associated with the terms literature, discipline, and comparison. As a settler colonial (Pākehā) scholar in Aotearoa New Zealand, I attend particularly to Māori literary scholars from Apirana Ngata, Te Kapunga Matemoana (Koro) Dewes, and Hirini Melbourne to Alice Te Punga Somerville, Tina Makereti, and Arini Loader. Their work highlights the limitedness of global literary studies in its current disciplinary guise. Disciplines remain important when they bring recognition to something previously marginalized, as in the battle to have Māori literature recognized within Pākehā institutions. What institutionalized modes of global literary studies need, however, is not discipline but indiscipline: a recognition of the limits of dominant disciplinary objects, frameworks, and practices, and an openness to other ways of seeing the world.

Futures of Spectrality

2020 ◽  
pp. 300-307
Author(s):  
Karim Mattar
Keyword(s):  
World Literature ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
The World ◽  
Per Se

In the Conclusion, I consider the wider implications of the book. Addressing the question of whether spectrality – and by extension (Derridean) theory per se – has a future in literary studies given the “postcritical” turn that scholars such as Rita Felski have recently called for, I suggest that it indeed does. This book, I affirm, is nothing if not a contribution to and expansion of the project of critique for the world literature debate. Through its reading of the Middle Eastern novel as metonym and metaphor of such, it will have sought to reorient world literature around the paradigmatic critical figure of the specter. Moving forwards, our task and indeed responsibility is one of expanding this analysis to the world in endless critique.

scholarly journals A Critique of the Creative Economy, Creative City and Creative Class From the Global South

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Diego Santos Vieira de Jesus ◽  
Daniel Kamlot ◽  
Veranise Jacubowski Correia Dubeux
Keyword(s):  
Global South ◽  
Creative Class ◽  
The Self ◽  
Creative Economy ◽  
Economic Governance ◽  
Culturally Specific ◽  
Creative City ◽  
Governance Strategies ◽  
Central Argument ◽  
Political Economic

The aims are to identify and examine the inconsistencies and incongruities of the definitions of “creative economy”, “creative city” and “creative class” in their application to the study and the formulation of public policies in the Global South. The central argument points out that 1) the idea of “creative economy” seemed to conceive peripheral societies would be flat tables on which pre-given economic governance strategies for creative sectors could be replicated; 2) the concept of a “creative city” by the mainstream does not deal with the specific political-economic obstacles in the Global South, so it seems more feasible to define “creative city” from a culturally specific understanding of what creativity is and recognize the motivations for creating a creative city can come from different actors according to local circumstances; 3) the mobilization of creativity in the exercise of the profession is a weak criterion for defining the “creative class”, which motivates difficulties regarding the self-identification of individuals as members of it. They reproduce hierarchical regimes that exclude differences.

Polysystems Redux: The Unfinished Business of World Literature

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 272-281
Author(s):  
Debjani Ganguly
Keyword(s):  
World Literature ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
World Systems ◽  
Unfinished Business ◽  
Republic Of Letters ◽  
Systems Model ◽  
Literary Space ◽  
The World

AbstractIn responding to Muhsin al-Musawi’s two-part essay on the Arabic Republic of Letters, this essay proposes a rethinking of the world systems model in global literary studies in terms of a polysystems framework. Rather than trying to fit literary worlds—ancient, premodern, modern—within a single Euro-chronological frame culminating in a world capitalist systems model—where the non-European worlds appear as invariably inferior—it is worthwhile to see them as several polysystems with variable valences within a heterotemporal planetary literary space. This approach offers a comparative reading of the emergence of three language worlds—Sanskrit, Persian, and Arabic—and urges us to rethink the totality of the world literary space as a diachronic field that generates overlapping, multiscalar, comparative histories of literary polysystems.

scholarly journals ECONOMIA CRIATIVA: A ALIANÇA ENTRE DESENVOLVIMENTO ECONÔMICO E A PROMOÇÃO DE DIREITOS FUNDAMENTAIS

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (56) ◽  
pp. 129
Author(s):  
Felipe Chiarello de Souza PINTO ◽  
Yuri Nathan da Costa LANNES ◽  
Lorrayne Barbosa MIRANDA
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Economic Order ◽  
Social Implications ◽  
Creative Economy ◽  
Federal Constitution

RESUMOO presente artigo tem como temática a ordem econômica e a economia criativa, com o objetivo de relacionar as estruturas constitucionais atinentes a ordem econômica prevista na Constituição Federal de 1988 e os caminhos para o desenvolvimento econômico sustentável e social a partir da ótica da economia do conhecimento. A metodologia utilizada é a dedutiva, aliada às técnicas de pesquisa bibliográfica e levantamento de dados relativos à economia criativa, com a finalidade de analisar suas implicações econômicas, jurídicas e sociais.PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Economia criativa; ordem econômica; desenvolvimento social; direitos fundamentais.ABSTRACT This article deals with the economic order and the creative economy, with the purpose of relating the constitutional structures related to the economic order provided for in the Federal Constitution of 1988 and the paths towards sustainable economic and social development from the perspective of the knowledge economy. The methodology used is deductive, coupled with the techniques of bibliographic research and collection of data related to the creative economy, with the purpose of analyzing its economic, legal and social implications KEYWORDS: Creative economics; economic order; social development; fundamental rights.

scholarly journals Creative Economy at Girona, Spain: a potential, a hope, and investments to be

2017 ◽  
pp. 159-186
Author(s):  
Guilherme Fraguas Nobre
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Creative Economy ◽  
Experience Economy ◽  
Strong Concentration ◽  
Model Based ◽  
Key Players ◽  
Socioeconomic Model ◽  
The Government ◽  
Managerial Perspective

Some key players have been considering the ‘creative economy’ (or the ‘knowledge economy’, ‘creative industries’, etc.) a viable driver for Girona – a way to escape from a traditional socioeconomic model, based on agriculture, hard industry, or low-tech services. Although the rhetoric coming from the heads of the government (local and regional) seems to adhere to such opinion, the facts reveal a strong concentration of such activities at the Province of Barcelona instead. Actually, a study over the data available to Girona shows its economy deep-seated at services mostly intensive on managerial competences. Therefore, it is suggested that Girona also approaches the ‘creative economy’ from a managerial perspective, embracing the wider concept of ‘experience economy’ – in the sense given by the Scandinavian countries.

scholarly journals Penerapan Arsitektur Ekspresionisme pada Perancangan Gedung Pusat Kreativitas Di Kota Kendari

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-30
Author(s):  
Ferdiansyah Ferdiansyah ◽  
Ilham Ilham ◽  
Dian Puteri Nurbaity
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Creative Economy ◽  
Creative Industry ◽  
The People ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
The Government

The creative economy industry is currently starting to develop rapidly in some cities in Indonesia, including Kendari City. Although relatively young, the development of the creative economy in Kendari City is supported by the increasing enthusiasm of young people in this industry. Therefore, to support the interests and talents of the people of Kendari City, especially young people, this study aims to create a place in the form of a Creativity Center Building with the theme of Expressionism. This theme is considered in accordance with the existing conditions in this city which can describe the expression of building users which is reflected in the appearance and interior of the building. This research uses qualitative descriptive and quantitative methods. Based on the analysis of location and site determination, this building is planned to be built in Kadia District with a total area of ​​± 4.34 Ha. The design of the facade /in this building is taken from the form of Kalosara which is a symbol of unity and peace from the Tolaki Tribe, as well as from the logo of the Creative Economy Agency. This form is the result of a study of the theme of Expressionism Architecture. The results of the planning of this building are expected to be a reference for the government in creating a place that can support the economy, especially in the creative industry of Kendari City.

scholarly journals Creative economy and knowledge-based society. Perspectives for Romania

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 532-538
Author(s):  
Laura Gabriela Istudor
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Inclusive Development ◽  
Creative Economy ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
International Trends

Abstract Creative economy is a rather new concept that started developing during the last decade, being currently applied to a variety of activities and professions. It has become an important sector of the global economy, being sustained and promoted by the European Union, especially in the context of an innovative and knowledge-based society. Within this new type of economy, creativity, innovation and knowledge management are essential factors that lead to a smart, sustainable and inclusive development in regard to the creation of new jobs and to the social inclusion requirements. According to John Howkins (2001), the creative industries / sectors include art, research, advertising, movies, theatre, software, with the possibility of the concept of creative economy to be extended to other non-artistic and IT related fields, where improvements are expected to arise through innovation and creativity. The Global Creativity Index (GCI) and the European Innovation Scoreboard (EIS), are two benchmarking tools that measure the creativity and innovation degree of the countries in the European Union, placing Romania within the last positions, especially with respect to intellectual property rights and entrepreneurship. The research methodology consists of both qualitative and quantitative methods, while the research questions to be answered are What is the degree of innovation in Romania compared to other states? What can be done in order to increase the level of innovation in Romania? In this viewpoint, the paper analyzes the development of the creative industries / sectors in Romania, in the context of creative economy and innovation. The objective of the paper is to analyze the extent to which the concept of creative economy can be promoted and implemented in Romania, given its increasing importance at the international level, with countries such as the United Kingdom that already adopted strategies to sustain this kind of economy in the past years. In order to reach the above mentioned objective, the paper has been structured by starting with a brief literature review on the topic, followed by some best practice examples in order to have an overview of the international trends in the field. It includes as well the main challenges for the implementation of the concept of creative economy in Romania, accompanied by a set of conclusions and recommendations.

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