Cultures and Globalization (eBook, PDF)

The Cultural Economy
Redaktion: Anheier, Helmut K; Isar, Yudhishthir Raj

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The world's cultures and their forms of creation, presentation and preservation are deeply affected by globalization in ways that are inadequately documented and understood. The Cultures and Globalization series is designed to fill this void in our knowledge. In this series, leading experts and emerging scholars track cultural trends connected to globalization throughout the world, resulting in a powerful analytic tool-kit that encompasses the transnational flows and scapes of contemporary cultures. Each volume presents data on cultural phenomena through colourful, innovative information graphics to give a quantitative portrait of the cultural dimensions and contours of globalization.

This second volume The Cultural Economy analyses the dynamic relationship in which culture is part of the process of economic change that in turn changes the conditions of culture. It brings together perspectives from different disciplines to examine such critical issues as:

. the production of cultural goods and services and the patterns of economic globalization

. the relationship between the commodification of the cultural economy and the aesthetic realm

. current and emerging organizational forms for the investment, production, distribution and consumption of cultural goods and services

. the complex relations between creators, producers, distributors and consumers of culture

. the policy implications of a globalizing cultural economy

By demonstrating empirically how the cultural industries interact with globalization, this volume will provide students of contemporary culture with a unique, indispensable reference tool.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: SAGE Publications
• Seitenzahl: 688
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. September 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781446202616
• Artikelnr.: 38406339

Inhaltsangabe

THE CULTURAL ECONOMY TODAY
Cultural Economy - Stuart Cunningham, John Banks and Jason Potts
The Shape of the Field
GLOBALIZATION AND LOCALIZATION
Globalization and the Cultural Economy - David Throsby
A Crisis of Value?
Locating the Cultural Economy - Andy Pratt
The Global Cultural Economy - Daniel Drache and Marc D. Froese
Power, Citizenship and Dissent
Strange Bedfellows - Mira Sundara Rajan
Law and Culture
ACTORS AND FORMS
Free Culture and Creative Commons - Frances Pinter
Cultural Entrepreneurs - Tom Aageson
Producing Cultural Value and Wealth
The Intergovernmental Policy Actors - Yudhishthir Raj Isar
REGIONAL REALITIES
Globalization and the Cultural Economy - Francis B. Nyamnjoh
Africa
Globalization and the Crafts in South Asia - Jasleen Dhamija
East Asia - Michael Keane
the Global-Regional Dynamic
The New Korean Wave of U - Jaz Choi
The Impact of Globalization on the Cultural Industries of Central Asia - Florent le Duc
European Cultural Systems in Turmoil - Xavier Greffe
Countries in Transition - Kirill Razlogov
Which Way to Go?
Southeastern Europe - Nada Svob-Ðokic, Jaka Primorac and Kresimir Jurlin
Emergences and Developments
Impact and Responses in Latin America and the Caribbean - Ana Carla Fonseca Reis and Andrea Davis
The Local Creative Economy in the United States of America - Margaret Wyszomirski
FIELDS AND GENRES
Spatial Dynamics of Film and Television - Michael Curtin
Anyone For Games? - Toby Miller
Via the New International Division of Labor
Digital Media - Gerard Goggin
Fashion - Sabine Ichikawa
Festivals - Dragan Klaic
Seeking Artistic Distinction in a Crowded Field
The Bahia Carnival - Paulo Miguez
Making Material Cultural Heritage Work - Martha Friel and Walter Santagata
From Traditional Handicrafts to Soft Industrial Design
Australian Indigenous Art - Mark David Ryan, Michael Keane and Stuart Cunningham
Local Dreamings, Global Consumption
New York's Chelsea District - David Halle and Elisabeth Tiso
a 'Global' and Local Perspective on Contemporary Art
Cultural Economy - Allen J. Scott
Retrospect and Prospect

Rezensionen

The notions of 'creative industry' and 'creative economy' have become ever more insistent in contemporary cultural, economic and urbanistic debates. Provoking vociferous opposition as well as overblown hyperbole the questions raised by these ideas can no longer be side-stepped or dismissed. This extremely rich book surveys the full range of the creative economy, from ethnic-based craftspeople to digital second lifers, and includes Africa and Asia alongside the heartlands of USA and Europe. In so doing it tackles some fundamental questions head-on. It gives full voice to those anxious about global homogenisation and those powerfully critical of the monopolisation and concentration of ownership and control by the mega-corporations. But as the key introductory and concluding chapters make clear, it is simply not possible any longer to ignore the enormous transformational power of the creative economy. We have to both understand the new cultural and economic landscape in which we live and to avoid the blanket condemnations of those who would argue that this global creative economy is inimical to meaningful culture. In this book we find the tools to help achieve both of these
Professor Justin O'Connor
School of Performance and Cultural Industries, University of Leeds





This catholic volume has succeeded admirably in drawing together a range of leading academics and renowned artists, cultural activists, and consultants to interrogate a series of critical questions about the cultural economy. Drawing from diverse disciplinary and theoretical positions, questions such as whether and how the cultural economy is becoming more globalized, the relationship between commodification and aesthetics, national and transnational patterns of investment, production, distribution and consumption of cultural goods and services, and the policy implications of these various trends, have been critically explored. These diversities of questions, perspectives and authors have been matched by an equally impressive geo-cultural coverage
Lily Kong
Professor of Geography, National University of Singapore





In the age of globalization we are no longer home alone. Migration brings other worlds into our own just as the global reach of the media transmits our world into the hearts and minds of others. Often incommensurate values are crammed together in the same public square. Increasingly we all today live in the kind of 'edge cultures' we used to see only on the frontiers of civilizations in places like Hong Kong or Istanbul. The resulting frictions and fusions are shaping the soul of the coming world order. I can think of no other project with the ambitious scope of defining this emergent reality than "The Cultures and Globalization Project". I can think of no more capable minds than Raj Isar and Helmut Anheier who can pull it off
Nathan Gardels
Editor-in-Chief, NPQ, Global Services, Los Angeles Times Syndicate/Tribune Media





This series represents an innovative approach to the central issues of globalization, that phenomenon of such undefined contours. This volume relates these to the cultural and creative industries in a wide range of powerful analytical perspectives
Lupwishi Mbuyumba
Director of the Observatory of Cultural Policies in Africa





A "strong editorial hand" is implemented throughout the book to create a unified volume which transcends a mere collection of diverse papers....The book provides a good presentation of our contemporary global socio-cultural and theoretical pluralism..a long lasting source of information
Culturelink Network