cultural studies
Friction in the Creative City The Indonesian city of Bandung presents itself as an “emerging creative city.” This raises the question of how an “emerging” creative city can attain realisation: when and where is the creative city accomplished? The formalisation of the creative city creates friction – to borrow the term from Tsing. This friction manifests in…
Read MoreThis co-authored book Global Cultural Economy critically interrogates the role cultural and creative industries play in societies.
Read MoreArjun Appadurai tackles an important issue with this collection of essays: the future. More precisely, he engages with The Future as a Cultural Fact, expanding on what this means for social sciences in general and for anthropology in particular.
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