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  • Cultural Governance

    Current and Future European Perspectives

    Edited by Chris Bailey, Elena Theodoulou Charalambous, Geert Drion ...
    Series series ENCATC Advances in Cultural Management and Policy
    Cultural governance is currently regarded as a transversal element of public policy in Europe. This book brings together academics and policy practitioners to provide new insights into the field, exploring its contemporary dynamics, dilemmas and challenges.In light of the Cyprus Presidency in 2026, the authors reflect on the breadth and boundaries of cultural governance in a European perspective, ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

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  • Spatial Planning and High-tech Development

    A comparative study of Eindhoven city-region, the Netherlands and Hsinchu City-region, Taiwan

    by Wei-Ju Huang ...
    n the past three decades, numerous high-tech city-regions have emerged with the rise of new high-tech industries across the world. Many of them have been specifically supported by national technology policies—in developed or developing countries—implemented to trigger economic growth and to enhance global competitiveness at the national and/or city-regional level. These policies have involved the ... Read more

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  • Key Concepts in Creative Industries

    by John Hartley, Stuart Cunningham, Michael Keane, John Banks, Jason Potts, Terry Flew ...
    Series series SAGE Key Concepts series
    This guide to the emerging language of creative industries field is a valuable resource for researchers and students alike. Concise, extensively referenced, and accessible, this this is an exceptionally useful reference work.- Gauti Sigthorsson***, Greenwich University***"There could be no better guides to the conceptual map of the creative industries than John Hartley and his colleagues, pioneers ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • The Information Society

    Cyber Dreams and Digital Nightmares

    by Robert Hassan ...
    Series series Digital Media and Society
    What are we to make of the information society? Many prominent theorists have argued it to be the most profound and comprehensive transformation of economy, culture and politics since the rise of the industrial way of life in the 18th century. Some saw its arrival in a positive light, where the dreams of democracy, of ‘connectivity’ and ‘efficiency’ constituted a break with the old ways. But other ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Global Creative Industries

    by Terry Flew ...
    Series series Global Media and Communication
    The creative industries are the subject of growing attention among policy-makers, academics, activists, artists and development specialists worldwide. This engaging book provides a global overview of developments in the creative industries, and analyses how these developments relate to wider debates about globalization, cities, culture and the global creative economy.Flew considers creative ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Smart Urbanism

    Utopian vision or false dawn?

    Edited by Simon Marvin, Andrés Luque-Ayala, Colin McFarlane ...
    Smart Urbanism (SU) – the rebuilding of cities through the integration of digital technologies with buildings, neighbourhoods, networked infrastructures and people – is being represented as a unique emerging ‘solution’ to the majority of problems faced by cities today. SU discourses, enacted by technology companies, national governments and supranational agencies alike, claim a supremacy of urban ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • The Network Society

    A New Context for Planning

    Edited by Louis Albrechts, Seymour Mandelbaum ...
    Series series Networked Cities Series
    In a clear and rewarding style, Albrechts and Mandelbaum consider the challenges that the new paradigm of the Network Society creates for Urban and Regional Planning. Chapters grouped into five themes discuss theoretical and practical perspectives on the contemporary organization of social, economic, cultural, political and physical spaces. These sections are:models of the Network Societythe ... Read more

    $100.30 CAD

  • The Handbook of Development Communication and Social Change

    by Karin Gwinn Wilkins, Thomas Tufte, Rafael Obregon ...
    Series series Global Handbooks in Media and Communication Research
    This valuable resource offers a wealth of practical and conceptual guidance to all those engaged in struggles for social justice around the world. It explains in accessible language and painstaking detail how to deploy and to understand the tools of media and communication in advancing the goals of social, cultural, and political change.A stand-out reference on a vital topic of primary ... Read more

    $251.99 CAD

  • Civil Society, the Third Sector and Social Enterprise

    Governance and Democracy

    Edited by Jean-Louis Laville, Philippe Eynaud, Dennis Young ...
    Series series Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
    If the twentieth century was only focused on the complementarity and the opposition of market and state, the twenty-first century has now to deal with the prominence of the third sector, the emergence of social enterprises and other solidarity hybrid forms. The concept of civil society organisations (CSOs) spans this diversity and addresses this new complexity.The first part of the book highlights ... Read more

    $116.79 CAD

  • Critique, Social Media and the Information Society

    Edited by Christian Fuchs, Marisol Sandoval ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society
    In times of global capitalist crisis we are witnessing a return of critique in the form of a surging interest in critical theories (such as the critical political economy of Karl Marx) and social rebellions as a reaction to the commodification and instrumentalization of everything. On one hand, there are overdrawn claims that social media (Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, etc) have caused uproars in ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • World Class Universities

    A Contested Concept

    Edited by Sharon Rider, Michael A. Peters, Mats Hyvönen, Tina Besley ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This open access book focuses on the dimensions of the discourse of 'The World Class University', its alleged characteristics, and its policy expressions. It offers a broad overview of the historical background and current trajectory of the world-class-university construct. It also deepens the theoretical discussion, and points a way forward out of present impasses resulting from the pervasive use ... Read more

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  • Cultural Policy is Local

    Understanding Cultural Policy as Situated Practice

    Edited by Victoria Durrer, Abigail Gilmore, Leila Jancovich, David Stevenson ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This Open Access edited collection calls for a greater understanding of ‘the local’ within the ways the arts, culture and creative practices are governed, promoted, regulated, resourced and valued. Cultural policy studies tends to privilege the national (and international) as the primary site at which cultural policy is enacted, and focuses on the ‘local’ as a case study of practice, rather than a ... Read more

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