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From cultural industries to creative industries and back? Towards clarifying theory and rethinking policy.
- Source :
- Inter-Asia Cultural Studies; Dec2014, Vol. 15 Issue 4, p593-607, 15p
- Publication Year :
- 2014
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Abstract
- In this paper, I draw attention to the complexities and confusions in the shift in discourse and praxis from “culture industry” to “cultural industries” and then “creative industries.” I examine how this “creative turn” is fraught with challenges, highlighting seven issues in particular: (i) the difficulties in defining and scoping the creative industries; (ii) the challenges in measuring the economic benefits creative industries bring; (iii) the risk that creative industries neglect genuine creativity/culture; (iv) the utopianization of “creative labour”; (v) the risk of valorizing and promoting external expertise over local small- and medium-scale enterprises in the building of “creative industries”; (vi) the danger of overblown expectations for creative industries to serve innovation and the economy, as well as culture and social equity; and (vii) the fallacy that “creative cities” can be designed. I suggest that the move towards creative industries discourse represents a theoretical backslide, and raise the possibility that a return to “cultural industries” would be more beneficial for clarifying our theoretical understanding of the cultural sectors and the creative work that they do, as well as enabling better policymaking. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
- Subjects :
- CULTURAL industries
CREATIVE ability
CULTURAL policy
ARTISTS
SMALL business
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14649373
- Volume :
- 15
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Inter-Asia Cultural Studies
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 99928398
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/14649373.2014.977555