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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 MoreEmergent Film Production in the Pacific: Oceanic Strategies of Connection and Exchange Cultural policies that promote film production and exchange in small island states face numerous challenges (including training, funding, and infrastructure). Yet, in the Pacific, Indigenous film-making is a key strategy for redressing reductive framing of the region during the colonial period (which continues…
Read MoreThis edited extract of the new book, Global Cultural Economy, explores how understanding context and history can help us change the lives of artists and cultural workers for the better.
Read MoreCultural industries come in many different forms around the world. Though the language we use seems remarkably similar. How come?
Read MoreThis co-authored book Global Cultural Economy critically interrogates the role cultural and creative industries play in societies.
Read MoreThis article explores the various ways inter-governmental organisations (such as UNESCO and UNCTAD) have adopted the ‘creative economy’ as a way to influence the governance of cultural industries around the world.
Read MoreSustainable development has long conceptual roots, and international organisations have played a significant role in articulating the meaning of the term and the content of the dominant discourses. This article and special issue examine culture and sustainable development in ways that articulate and contemplate different roles for cultural policy.
Read MoreWhat happens when the ‘fast policy’ discourse of the ‘creative economy’ interacts with older policy practices and ideas?
Read MoreUNESCO’s 2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions include explicit reference to sustainability. But what does the term mean in this text?
Read MoreThis edited collection outlines the accomplishments, shortcomings, and future policy prospects of the 2005 UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions.
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