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  • Realising the Value of Culture

    The Value-Based Approach

    Realising the Value of Culture brings together international scholars to explore how values shape economies, organisations, and societies. It provides conceptual framing and tools for those seeking to align their practices with economic, cultural, and societal values.The chapters in this collection bridge cultural economics, sociology, cultural studies, and urban studies to present an alternative ... Read more

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  • Contestation, Reinvention, and Regulation of Cultural Heritage Through Dissent

    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book explores the concept of ‘dissent’ within the realm of art and cultural heritage through a rich and multidisciplinary lens. It investigates how dissent shapes the very definition of cultural heritage and the systems that govern cultural heritage, drawing primarily on social science perspectives. Combining methodologies from law and economics with insights from museology, art history, and ... Read more

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  • Cultural Commons and Urban Dynamics

    A Multidisciplinary Perspective

    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Today, cities are being intensively reshaped by unexpected dynamics. The rise and growth of the digital economy have fundamentally changed the relationship between the urban fabric and its resident community, overcoming the conventional hierarchy based on production priorities. Moreover, contemporary society discovers new labour conditions and ways of satisfying needs and desires by developing new ... Read more

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  • Realizing the Values of Art

    Making Space for Cultural Civil Society

    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book provides a novel approach to the understanding and realization of the values of art. It argues that art has often been instrumentalized for state-building, to promote social inclusion of diversity, or for economic purposes such as growth or innovation. To counteract that, the authors study the values that artists and audiences seek to realize in the social practices around the arts. They ... Read more

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  • The ABC of the projectariat

    Living and working in a precarious art world

    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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  • Urban Complexity and Spatial Strategies

    Towards a Relational Planning for Our Times

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    Series series RTPI Library Series
    Urban Complexity and Spatial Strategies develops important new relational and institutionalist approaches to policy analysis and planning, of relevance to all those with an interest in cities and urban areas.Well-illustrated chapters weave together conceptual development, experience and implications for future practice and address the challenge of urban and metropolitan planning and development ... Read more

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    Series series Regions and Cities
    The regeneration of critical urban areas through the redesign of public space with the intense involvement of local communities seems to be the central focus of place-making according to some widespread practices in academic and professional circles. Recently, new expertise maintains that place-making could be an innovative and potentially autonomous field, competing with more traditional ... Read more

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  • Managing situated creativity in cultural industries

    Series series Routledge Studies in Industry and Innovation
    Creativity is the emergence of something novel and appropriate, from a person, a group, a society. A creative idea or product must be novel. Yet, novelty is not enough (a novel idea may be ridiculous or nonsensical). In addition to novelty, to be creative an idea or product must also attain some level of social recognition. The individualist approaches to creativity overestimate the role of the ... Read more

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  • The Global Rules of Art

    The Emergence and Divisions of a Cultural World Economy

    Series series Princeton Studies in Global and Comparative Sociology
    A trailblazing look at the historical emergence of a global field in contemporary art and the diverse ways artists become valued worldwidePrior to the 1980s, the postwar canon of “international” contemporary art was made up almost exclusively of artists from North America and Western Europe, while cultural agents from other parts of the world often found themselves on the margins. The Global Rules ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Handbook of Institutions and Planning in Action

    Edited by Willem Salet ...
    The Routledge Handbook of Institutions and Planning in Action contains a selection of 25 chapters prepared by specialized international scholars of urban planning and urban studies focusing on the question of how institutional innovation occurs in practices of action. The contributors share expertise on institutional innovation and philosophical pragmatism. They discuss the different facets of ... Read more

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  • The Future Is Now: An Introduction to Prefigurative Politics

    The Future Is Now

    Series series Alternatives to Capitalism in the 21st Century
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