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  • The Politics of Contemporary Art Biennials

    Spectacles of Critique, Theory and Art

    by Panos Kompatsiaris ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies
    Contemporary art biennials are sites of prestige, innovation and experimentation, where the category of art is meant to be in perpetual motion, rearranged and redefined, opening itself to the world and its contradictions. They are sites of a seemingly peaceful cohabitation between the elitist and the popular, where the likes of Jeff Koons encounter the likes of Guy Debord, where Angela Davis and ... Read more

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  • Curation in the Age of Platform Capitalism

    The Value of Selection, Narration, and Expertise in New Media Cultures

    by Panos Kompatsiaris ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Media and Cultural Industries
    This book employs the figure of curation—the selection, arrangement, and display of objects, concepts, and things—to explore the cultures of platform capitalism. Considering its rise in the global art world as an authorial, meaning-making activity and an organizational-entrepreneurial endeavour, it looks at curation as the interweaving of innovative concepts, elaborate storytelling, and trusted ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • The Routledge Companion to Art Biennials

    Edited by Panos Kompatsiaris ...
    Series series Routledge Art History and Visual Studies Companions
    The Routledge Companion to Art Biennials assembles forty-six chapters that explore art biennials as expanded sites of artistic display, cultural policy, economic value, soft power, urban development and political struggle. The volume traces biennials from their 19th-century origins to their explosive post-Cold War growth, critically engaging with debates on globalization, institutional critique, ... Read more

    $486.99 CAD

  • The Industrialization of Creativity and Its Limits

    Values, Politics and Lifestyles of Contemporary Cultural Economies

    Edited by Ilya Kiriya, Panos Kompatsiaris, Yannis Mylonas ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    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, ... Read more

    $167.99 CAD

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    by Frank Webster ...
    Series series International Library of Sociology
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  • The Historic Urban Landscape

    Managing Heritage in an Urban Century

    by Francesco Bandarin, Ron van Oers ...
    This book offers a comprehensive overview of the intellectual developments in urban conservation. The authors offer unique insights from UNESCO's World Heritage Centre and the book is richly illustrated with colour photographs. Examples are drawn from urban heritage sites worldwide from Timbuktu to Liverpool to demonstrate key issues and best practice in urban conservation today. The book offers ... Read more

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  • Knowledge and Institutions

    Edited by Johannes Glückler, Roy Suddaby, Regina Lenz ...
    Series Book 13 - Knowledge and Space
    This open access book bridges the disciplinary boundaries within the social sciences to explore the role of social institutions in shaping geographical contexts, and in creating new knowledge. It includes theorizations as well as original empirical case studies on the emergence, maintenance and change of institutions as well as on their constraining and enabling effects on innovation, ... Read more

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  • Be Creative

    Making a Living in the New Culture Industries

    by Angela McRobbie ...
    In this exciting new book Angela McRobbie charts the ‘euphoric’ moment of the new creative economy, as it rose to prominence in the UK during the Blair years, and considers it from the perspective of contemporary experience of economic austerity and uncertainty about work and employment.McRobbie makes some bold arguments about the staging of creative economy as a mode of ‘labour reform’; she ... Read more

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  • Heads Up Sociology

    by DK ...
    Series series DK Heads UP
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  • The Sharing Economy in Europe

    Developments, Practices, and Contradictions

    Edited by Vida Česnuitytė, Andrzej Klimczuk, Cristina Miguel, Gabriela Avram ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This open access book considers the development of the sharing and collaborative economy with a European focus, mapping across economic sectors, and country-specific case studies. It looks at the roles the sharing economy plays in sharing and redistribution of goods and services across the population in order to maximise their functionality, monetary exchange, and other aspects important to ... Read more

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  • The ABC of the projectariat

    Living and working in a precarious art world

    by Kuba Szreder, Poppy Bowers ...
    Series series Whitworth Manuals
    The ABC of the projectariat contributes new thinking on and practical responses to the widespread problem of precarious labour in the field of contemporary art. It works as both a critical analysis and a practical handbook, speaking to and about the vast cohort of artistic freelancers worldwide. In an accessible ABC format, the book strikes a unique balance between the practical and the ... Read more

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  • Reimagining Business History

    by Philip Scranton, Patrick Fridenson ...
    A vigorous call for rethinking the field of business history.Business history needs a shake-up, Philip Scranton and Patrick Fridenson argue, as many businesses go global and cultural contexts become critical. Reimagining Business History prods practitioners to take new approaches to entrepreneurial intentions, company scale, corporate strategies, local infrastructure, employee well-being, use of ... Read more

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