Cultural industries and the environmental crisis : new approaches for policy / Kate Oakley, Mark Banks, editors.

Cultural industries and the environmental crisis : new approaches for policy / Kate Oakley, Mark Banks, editors.

9783030493844 (electronic book)
3030493849 (electronic book)
3030493830
9783030493837

Cham : Springer, 2020

English

1 online resource (viii, 151 pages)

10.1007/978-3-030-49

HC79.E5 C85 2020

333.7

This volume critiques the current model of the creative economy, and considers alternative models that may point to greener, cleaner, more sustainable and socially just cultural and creative industries. Aimed at the nexus of cultural and environmental concerns, the book assesses the ways in which arts and cultural activities can help develop ideas of the 'good life' beyond excessive and unsustainable material consumption, and explores the complex interactions between cultural prosperity, place and the quality (and availability) of employment, leisure and the rights to self-expression. Adopting a deliberately wide and inclusive interdisciplinary and international perspective, contributors to this volume showcase current and future ways of 'doing' creative economy, ecologically, otherwise and differently. In 11 chapters, the book outlines some of the most relevant arguments from among the growing literature that critically analyzes the current creative economy, with a focus on issues of gentrification, inequality and environment. This volume is timely, as it emerges into a political and economic context that is seeking desperately to 'reboot' the economy, re-establish 'business as usual' and to do so partly through significant investment and expansion in the creative economy.

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