The role of libraries, archives and museums in the cultural economy

2021 ◽  
pp. 197-211
Author(s):  
Lorraine A. Stuart
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Economy

scholarly journals Urban Regeneration: From the Arts `Feel Good' Factor to the Cultural Economy: A Case Study of Hoxton, London

Urban Studies ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 46 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 1041-1061 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andy C. Pratt
Keyword(s):  
Service Sector ◽  
Urban Regeneration ◽  
Cultural Economy ◽  
Cultural Industries ◽  
Industrial City ◽  
Policy Debates ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Post Industrial

This paper seeks to examine critically the role of culture in the continued development, or regeneration, of `post-industrial' cities. First, it is critical of instrumental conceptions of culture with regard to urban regeneration. Secondly, it is critical of the adequacy of the conceptual framework of the `post-industrial city' (and the `service sector') as a basis for the understanding and explanation of the rise of cultural industries in cities. The paper is based upon a case study of the transformation of a classic, and in policy debates a seminal, `cultural quarter': Hoxton Square, North London. Hoxton, and many areas like it, are commonly presented as derelict parts of cities which many claim have, through a magical injection of culture, been transformed into dynamic destinations. The paper suggests a more complex and multifaceted causality based upon a robust concept of the cultural industries as industry rather than as consumption.

THE ROLE OF PUBLIC SUPPORT IN BUILDING A CULTURAL ECONOMY

2007 ◽  
Vol 266 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-14
Author(s):  
Roberta Comunian
Keyword(s):  
Public Support ◽  
Cultural Economy

Draping the Mannequin in Late Capitalism

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 108-123
Author(s):  
Konstantine Klioutchkine
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Economy ◽  
Television Series ◽  
Late Capitalism ◽  
Human Subjectivity ◽  
Mad Men

The essay explores the role of language in the cultural economy of late capitalism by analyzing the television series Mad Men. Within the framework of the moving but relatively consistent image, language, relying on its polysemic resources, works to generate unlimited play of signification. This process actuates texts and subjectivities alike. Aesthetic products and human subjectivity emerge as commodities whose effectiveness derives from their ability to absorb and reenact affectively the polysemic play in what the show portrays as the Carousel of late-capitalist signification.

scholarly journals Indie Cinema and the Short Film Assemblage

2021 ◽  
Vol 177 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 208-220
Author(s):  
Thomas Barker
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Reform Movement ◽  
Short Film ◽  
Cultural Economy ◽  
New Order ◽  
History Of ◽  
Independent Media

Abstract Dewi pulang (Dewi goes home), the 2016 short film by Candra Aditya, offers a means to redefine the meaning of independence for contemporary Indonesian screen production. In the years of Reformasi following the end of the New Order, to be independent was to be in solidarity with the reform movement, and to express a DIY sensibility that did not rely on big production companies or the state. In recent years, the meaning of independence has been complicated by a changing cultural economy of film, including the accommodation of many previously independent filmmakers into the mainstream. Rather than seeing independence embodied in the film or filmmaker, this essay considers the history of short film and the foundational role of komunitas (communities) as the location for independent media practice. Independence is theorized as a characteristic of the assemblage of organizations, events, and infrastructures that facilitate the production, circulation, and consumption of short film.

scholarly journals High Stakes

2008 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 2
Author(s):  
Fiona Nicoll
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Cultural Difference ◽  
Cultural Economy ◽  
Economic Power ◽  
Valuable Contribution ◽  
High Stakes ◽  
Symbolic Forms ◽  
Political Status ◽  
Indian Nation

In this lucidly written, carefully conceived, persuasively argued and thoroughly researched book, Jessica Cattelino studies the ways that members of the Seminole Indian nation have reconfigured material and symbolic forms of their sovereignty in the casino-era. As such, High Stakes makes a valuable contribution to literature on cultural economy, cultural studies, political economy and cultural history in addition to the author’s home discipline of anthropology. It also makes an intellectual intervention at a moment which has seen Indigenous ownership of legal gambling businesses become the object of often contradictory discourses which Cattelino relates to '...more general American anxieties... about the effects of economic power upon cultural difference and the role of differential political status in a democratic multicultural nation'(8).

Trading in Culture: The Role of Language

1994 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Collins
Keyword(s):  
Economic Activity ◽  
Cultural Practice ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Cultural Economy ◽  
Cultural Markets

Abstract: This chapter considers why the imperatives of cultural development and economy are often perceived to be contradictory; the fundamental ambiguity of meaning of the category "culture''; the conflict between socially established understandings of the category "culture'' and the patterns of cultural practice created by contemporary circumstances (notably the industrialization/popularization of culture and globalization of economic activity). It examines the importance of language as a factor in explaining the structure of important cultural markets and considers the distinctive position of "new societies'' in the global cultural economy and the possibilities offered by Canada's linguistic endowment. Résumé: Cet article considère: pourquoi l'on perçoit souvent les besoins de développement culturel et les besoins économiques comme étant contradictoires; l'ambiguïté fondamentale du sens du mot "culture"; le conflit entre les perceptions conventionnelles de la "culture" et les pratiques culturelles produites dans les circonstances actuelles (notamment l'industrialisation de la culture et sa popularisation, et la globalisation des activités économiques). L'article examine l'importance de la langue comme élément structural des marchés culturels importants, et considère la position distincte de "sociétés nouvelles" dans l'économie culturelle globale et les possibilités que la richesse linguistique du Canada peuvent offrir.

Labouring up and down Prisunic’s styling streams: The creative studio of a retail chain in 1960s France

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sophie Chapdelaine de Montvalon
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Relations ◽  
Cultural Economy ◽  
Discursive Construction ◽  
Retail Chain ◽  
The Press ◽  
Fashion Designer ◽  
Cultural Intermediaries ◽  
The 1960S

This article looks at the French retail chain Prisunic’s fashion production in the 1960s and, in particular, at the collective and invisible labour of its creative studio established in 1953. It examines the processes by which Prisunic evolved from selling clothes, infamous for their shabbiness, to selling fashion during the 1960s. First, this article focuses on the organization of Prisunic. Second, it turns to the interactions between Prisunic as a fashion producer and cultural intermediaries such as forecasting agencies. Specifically, it analyses how Maïmé Arnodin’s ‘colour books’ became instrumental to Prisunic’s design process. Third, it considers the diversity of occupations within the studio, including stylist, fashion designer, fashion photographer, graphic designer and typographer, and considers their interactions. Fourth, the article delves into the interpersonal relations of studio members with fashion journalists and editors, as well as structural interactions between fashion producers and fashion media. Especially, it questions the role of French Elle in the visual and discursive construction of Prisunic’s commodities as the product of creative labour. The article draws on sociologist Michel Callon’s focus on ‘agencies’ and ‘material devices’, which are instrumental in shaping markets and the cultural economy. Further, it builds on sociologist Liz McFall’s characterization of material devices as shaped by the interaction of institutional, organizational and technological arrangements to analyse the studio’s labour practices within Prisunic, upstream with its suppliers and downstream with the press. This article traces the processes, interactions and arrangements that make up Prisunic’s styling streams.

Conclusion

2019 ◽  
pp. 176-190
Author(s):  
Barbara Townley ◽  
Philip Roscoe ◽  
Nicola Searle
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Cultural Economy ◽  
Creative Economy ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Policy Suggestions ◽  
Craft Skills ◽  
Rights Issues

We have now completed our journey through the creative economy. Our concluding chapter draws together arguments and elaborates policy suggestions. We examine the value of IP/IPR as an analytical construct and consider how it adds to our understanding of contemporary debates over the creative industries. Our analysis of IP policy and attendant rights issues argues that any evidence-based policy should be based on an understanding of the role of IP/IPR within the valorization process as a whole. We also place our discussion of IP within the context of cultural and education policy, emphasizing the importance of cultural access and support and the development of craft skills that underpin the process of creating intellectual property. We argue both are crucial for the future of creative production and the cultural economy as a whole.

Branding National Identity in an Unequal World

2018 ◽  
pp. 438-453
Author(s):  
Melissa Aronczyk
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Cultural Economy ◽  
Market Interactions ◽  
Playing Field ◽  
Theoretical Assumptions ◽  
Symbolic Value ◽  
Material Advantage ◽  
Status Differences ◽  
Market Intermediaries

Market intermediaries such as location consultants, tourism promoters, and branding specialists exploit the symbolic value of national territories to promote economic development. Although these practices are often justified as a way to “level the global playing field” of market interactions, they typically achieve the opposite effect, reinforcing or creating inequality and status differences. This chapter reviews some of the theoretical assumptions and pragmatic features of place-based marketing and branding, with particular emphasis on the role of judgment adopted by market intermediaries in the cultural economy. The argument advanced here is that symbolic and material systems are co-constitutive in the production of place; and that market intermediaries engage in ongoing practices of valuation to link national identity with material advantage.

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