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This article explores the political economy of the re-uptake of wind propulsion for maritime cargo transport so as to shift this sector onto a decarbonization pathway.
Read MoreCOVID-19 Border Closures Cause Humanitarian Crew Change Crisis at Sea The COVID-19 pandemic has caused many countries to close their borders to travellers, in an attempt to contain the spread of the virus. Given the initially indiscriminate travel restrictions adopted in March 2020, many seafarers have been stranded on their ships, well beyond their initial…
Read MoreFriction 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 MoreSeafarers may be invisible; they are also indispensable. Despite the changes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, it is thanks to seafarers that the life as we know it still mostly exists.
Read MoreCet article propose cinq prismes idéologiques à travers lesquels le discours multipolaire sur l’économie culturelle est communément défini : laudatif, ambitieux, dissident, agnostique, réflexif.
Read MoreAcross the African continent, music distribution has long been dominated by makeshift networks operating in the margins of the formal economy. The rise of digital distribution has promised change, but how has this affected the political economy of music industries?
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 MoreGhana, like many other countries, tries to eliminate media piracy. But what does this mean for distributors working in the margins of the formal economy? And, more fundamentally, what does this means for the tension between copyright and cultural rights?
Read MoreCan societies deal with difference within a methodologically nationalist framework for cultural policy? This article argues it can’t and calls for a methodologically cosmopolitan approach to cultural policy instead.
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