Overview
- Provides an overview of the latest developments in political economy of creativity
- Examines the policy implications of new ecologies of cultural production and consumption
- Includes detailed case studies on geographical and cultural contexts
Part of the book series: Science, Technology and Innovation Studies (STAIS)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Sustainability: Creative Growth, Labor, and Skills
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Ideology: Creative Self-Expression and Aesthetics
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Industrialization: Creative Markets and Technologies
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About this book
Creativity loosely refers to activities in the visual arts, music, design, film and performance that are primarily intended to produce forms of affect and social meaning. Yet, over the last few decades, creativity has also been explicitly mobilized by governments around the world as a ‘resource’ for achieving economic growth. The creative economy discourse emphasizes individuality, innovation, self-fulfillment, career advancement and the idea of leading exciting lives as remedies to social alienation. This book critically assesses that discourse, and explores how political shifts and new theoretical frameworks are affecting the creative economy in various parts of the world at a time when creative industries are becoming increasingly ‘industrialized.’ Further, it highlights how work inequalities, oligopolistic strategies, competitive logics and unsustainable models are inherent weaknesses of the industrial model of creativity. The interdisciplinary contributions presented here address the operationalization of creative practices in a variety of geographical contexts, ranging from the UK, France and Russia, to Greece, Argentina and Italy, and examine issues concerning art biennials, museums, DIY cultures, technologies, creative writing, copyright laws, ideological formations, craft production and creative co-ops.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Panos Kompatsiaris is Assistant Professor of Art and Media at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia). He holds a PhD in art theory from the University of Edinburgh, and has published on art and cultural politics in various journals and edited volumes, including a monograph titled 'The Politics of Contemporary Art Biennials' (Routledge, 2017). He is a co-editor of a special journal issue on art and value with the Journal of Cultural Economy.
Yiannis Mylonas is Assistant Professor at the Media Department of the National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia). He holds a PhD in Media and Communications from the University of Copenhagen. He has previously published on the political economy of copyrights, digital file-sharing and civic cultures, among other topics. He is the author of the monograph 'The Greek Crisis in Europe: Race, Class and Politics' (Brill, 2019).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Industrialization of Creativity and Its Limits
Book Subtitle: Values, Politics and Lifestyles of Contemporary Cultural Economies
Editors: Ilya Kiriya, Panos Kompatsiaris, Yannis Mylonas
Series Title: Science, Technology and Innovation Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53164-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-53163-8Published: 10 October 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-53166-9Published: 11 October 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-53164-5Published: 09 October 2020
Series ISSN: 2570-1509
Series E-ISSN: 2570-1517
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 208
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations
Topics: Cultural Economics, International Political Economy, Cultural Policy and Politics, Innovation/Technology Management, R & D/Technology Policy