Cultural policy and creative industries
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2017
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Luckman, S.
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Durrer, V.
Miler, T.
O'Brien, D.
Miler, T.
O'Brien, D.
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Source details - Title: The Routledge Handbook of Global Cultural Policy, 2017 / Durrer, V., Miler, T., O'Brien, D. (ed./s), Ch.22, pp.341-354
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This chapter offers examines the complex and often fraught policy and scholarly relationship between cultural policy and the emergence of what has come to be identified as the creative industries. It charts the ascendency of creative industries agendas out of the academy and into national policy, especially via the high profile and highly influential British creative industries model championed in the early 2000s by the Blair government’s Department for Media, Culture and Sport, which was itself a further development of the short-lived Australian Creative Nation framework. It will explore how creative industries approaches have settled down through the lens of two key sites for action and concern. Firstly the rise creative place making including, following Florida,the policy fetish for urban redevelopment focused upon attracting creative workers. Secondly, drilling down to the employment coalface of creative industries, it draws attention to the exclusions of the contemporary creative workforce (particularly those of gender) as but one means to examine what has been lost in the shift from cultural policy to creative industries, namely the focus on socio-cultural inclusion. It argues that the ready take-up within UK-style creative industries approaches of the US urban policy-driven ‘creative class’ ideas of economist Richard Florida represents an important de-coupling moment for cultural policy and creative industries, consolidating the increasingly more commercially-focussed mobilisation of ideas and funding structures around entrepreneurial creativity.
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Copyright 2017 Taylor and Francis.