Cultures and Globalization

The world's cultures and their forms of creation, presentation and preservation are deeply affected by globalization in ways that are inadequately documented and understood. The Cultures and Globalization series is designed to fill this void in our knowledge. In this series, leading experts and emerging scholars track cultural trends connected to globalization throughout the world, resulting in a powerful analytic tool-kit that encompasses the transnational flows and scapes of contemporary cultures. Each volume presents data on cultural phenomena through colourful, innovative information graphics to give a quantitative portrait of the cultural dimensions and contours of globalization.

This second volume The Cultural Economy analyses the dynamic relationship in which culture is part of the process of economic change that in turn changes the conditions of culture. It brings together perspectives from different disciplines to examine such critical issues as:

. the production of cultural goods and services and the patterns of economic globalization

. the relationship between the commodification of the cultural economy and the aesthetic realm

. current and emerging organizational forms for the investment, production, distribution and consumption of cultural goods and services

. the complex relations between creators, producers, distributors and consumers of culture

. the policy implications of a globalizing cultural economy

By demonstrating empirically how the cultural industries interact with globalization, this volume will provide students of contemporary culture with a unique, indispensable reference tool.

Inhalt
THE CULTURAL ECONOMY TODAY
Cultural Economy - Stuart Cunningham, John Banks and Jason Potts
The Shape of the Field
GLOBALIZATION AND LOCALIZATION
Globalization and the Cultural Economy - David Throsby
A Crisis of Value?
Locating the Cultural Economy - Andy Pratt
The Global Cultural Economy - Daniel Drache and Marc D. Froese
Power, Citizenship and Dissent
Strange Bedfellows - Mira Sundara Rajan
Law and Culture
ACTORS AND FORMS
Free Culture and Creative Commons - Frances Pinter
Cultural Entrepreneurs - Tom Aageson
Producing Cultural Value and Wealth
The Intergovernmental Policy Actors - Yudhishthir Raj Isar
REGIONAL REALITIES
Globalization and the Cultural Economy - Francis B. Nyamnjoh
Africa
Globalization and the Crafts in South Asia - Jasleen Dhamija
East Asia - Michael Keane
the Global-Regional Dynamic
The New Korean Wave of U - Jaz Choi
The Impact of Globalization on the Cultural Industries of Central Asia - Florent le Duc
European Cultural Systems in Turmoil - Xavier Greffe
Countries in Transition - Kirill Razlogov
Which Way to Go?
Southeastern Europe - Nada vob-Ðokic, Jaka Primorac and Kreimir Jurlin
Emergences and Developments
Impact and Responses in Latin America and the Caribbean - Ana Carla Fonseca Reis and Andrea Davis
The Local Creative Economy in the United States of America - Margaret Wyszomirski
FIELDS AND GENRES
Spatial Dynamics of Film and Television - Michael Curtin
Anyone For Games? - Toby Miller
Via the New International Division of Labor
Digital Media - Gerard Goggin
Fashion - Sabine Ichikawa
Festivals - Dragan Klaic
Seeking Artistic Distinction in a Crowded Field
The Bahia Carnival - Paulo Miguez
Making Material Cultural Heritage Work - Martha Friel and Walter Santagata
From Traditional Handicrafts to Soft Industrial Design
Australian Indigenous Art - Mark David Ryan, Michael Keane and Stuart Cunningham
Local Dreamings, Global Consumption
New Yorks Chelsea District - David Halle and Elisabeth Tiso
a Global and Local Perspective on Contemporary Art
Cultural Economy - Allen J. Scott
Retrospect and Prospect