Culture Works : Space, Value, and Mobility Across the Neoliberal Americas / Arlene Dávila.
2012
F1408.3 .D37 2012
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Title
Culture Works : Space, Value, and Mobility Across the Neoliberal Americas / Arlene Dávila.
Author
Dávila, Arlene, author.
ISBN
9780814744314
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2012]
Copyright
©2012
Language
English
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In English.
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1 online resource
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10.18574/nyu/9780814744314.001.0001 doi
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F1408.3 .D37 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification
980
Summary
Culture Works addresses and critiques an important dimension of the "work of culture," an argument made by enthusiasts of creative economies that culture contributes to the GDP, employment, social cohesion, and other forms of neoliberal development. While culture does make important contributions to national and urban economies, the incentives and benefits of participating in this economy are not distributed equally, due to restructuring that neoliberal policies have wrought from the 1980s on, as well as long-standing social structures, such as racism and classism, that breed inequality. The cultural economy promises to make life better, particularly in cities, but not everyone can take advantage of it for decent jobs.Exposing and challenging the taken-for-granted assumptions around questions of space, value and mobility that are sustained by neoliberal treatments of culture, Culture Works explores some of the hierarchies of cultural workers that these engender, as they play out in a variety of settings, from shopping malls in Puerto Rico and art galleries in New York to tango tourism in Buenos Aires. Noted scholar Arlene Dávila brilliantly reveals how similar dynamics of space, value and mobility come to bear in each location, inspiring particular cultural politics that have repercussions that are both geographically specific, but also ultimately global in scope.
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Ideologies of Consumption and the Business of Shopping Malls in Puerto Rico
2. Authenticity and Space in Puerto Rico's Culture-Based Informal Economy
3. The Battle for Cultural Equity in the Global Arts Capital of the World
4. The Trials of Building a National Museum of the American Latino
5. Through Commerce, for Community
6. Tango Tourism and the Political Economy of Space
7. Urban/Creative Expats
Conclusion
Notes
References
Index
About the Author
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Ideologies of Consumption and the Business of Shopping Malls in Puerto Rico
2. Authenticity and Space in Puerto Rico's Culture-Based Informal Economy
3. The Battle for Cultural Equity in the Global Arts Capital of the World
4. The Trials of Building a National Museum of the American Latino
5. Through Commerce, for Community
6. Tango Tourism and the Political Economy of Space
7. Urban/Creative Expats
Conclusion
Notes
References
Index
About the Author