chapters
Cultural industries come in many different forms around the world. Though the language we use seems remarkably similar. How come?
What happens when the ‘fast policy’ discourse of the ‘creative economy’ interacts with older policy practices and ideas?
UNESCO’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?
Under contemporary capitalism the extraction of value from the built environment has escalated, working in tandem with other urban processes to lay the foundations for the exploitative processes of gentrification world-wide.
This chapter builds on postcolonial studies, through which greater understanding of the complexity of ‘culture’ in cultural and creative industries might be achieved.