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Tuite, Alexandra E. "The cultural economy of independent fashion." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2019. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/129093/1/Alexandra_Tuite_Thesis.pdf.
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This research explores independent cultural production in the fashion industry, with a focus on small-scale entrepreneurship. "Independent fashion" is a widely-used term that has been under-examined. Studies of small-scale fashion businesses tend to focus on practioners' processes and practices, taking for granted the notion of their "independence" and looking past it in order to consider other aspects. This project seeks to address this gap in our knowledge of small-scale fashion practice by analysing the way in which independent fashion as a concept is understood, demonstrated and judged by those who identify as participants in the independent fashion sector.
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Saha, Anamik. "The postcolonial cultural economy the politics of British Asian cultural production." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.514380.
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Davies, William. "'Competition and competitiveness : A cultural political economy'." Thesis, University of London, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.514202.
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Black, David Edward. "Towards a cultural political economy of exception." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.541601.
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Seror, Avner. "Essays on Political Economy and Cultural Evolution." Thesis, Paris Sciences et Lettres (ComUE), 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PSLEH028/document.
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Cette dissertation est composée de trois articles traitant de sujets divers. Le premier développe une théorie sur la transmission de normes culturelles. Le second article traite de l'évolution des doctrines religieuses dans une économie productive. Enfin, le dernier article de cette dissertation est un travail joint avec Thierry Verdier. L'article propose une nouvelle approche des élections impliquant un nombre arbitraire de candidats. Cette problématique de recherche est importante non seulement quant à sa complexité théorique, mais aussi parce qu'elle permet d'étudier relativement simplement la structure des marchés politiques.Le premier article présente une théorie sur le développement de l'enfant et les pratiques parentales. Dans le modèle, un parent cherche à transmettre des normes comportementales à son enfant en lui envoyant des signaux, que l'enfant observe de manière imparfaite. L'enfant peut cependant augmenter la qualité des signaux qu'il reçoit en investissant dans l'acquisition de compétences cognitives.Nous établissons que les styles parentaux autoritaires ou permissifs décroissent l'accumulation de compétences cognitives. De plus, puisque les interactions entre parents et enfants visent à transmettre des normes comportementales, l'enfant développe un capital d'appréciation pour le développement de compétences cognitives.Notre perspective culturelle sur la question du développement cognitif fournit une grille d'interprétation utile pour divers résultats établis dans la littérature empirique sur le développement de l'enfant.Le second article propose une théorie de la prohibition religieuse contre l'usure et l'innovation et ses conséquences sur les activités et les occupations économiques.Comme une interdiction économique provenant de la religion majoritaire est soutenue par un risque d'exclusion sociale de ce groupe culturel, elle a moins d'effets sur les minorités religieuses. Cela implique que seules les minorités religieuses choisissent des activités qui vont à l'encontre de la prohibition à l'équilibre.Dans le dernier article, nous présentons une théorie micro-fondée de la concurrence politique à plusieurs candidats prenant une perspective ``d'organisation industrielle" de la politique. Nous présentons d'abord un modèle de vote aléatoire qui utilise des distributions introduites par le mathématicien français Maurice Fréchet et qui portent son nom. Ces distributions permettent d'exprimer les parts de vote des différents candidats comme des ``contest functions'', ce qui permet d'établir un théorème d'existence et d'unicité d'un équilibre des stratégies politiques dans des élections impliquant un nombre arbitraire de candidats.Le cadre analytique s'avère suffisamment souple pour traiter plusieurs applications sur des thèmes liés à la structure endogène des marchés politiques. Nous montrons en particulier que le degré d'information des électeurs sur les plateformes ainsi que les campagnes médiatiques impliquent un degré de fragmentation politique plus faibleThe first chapter of this dissertation presents a theory of child development and parental rearingpractices. In the model, a benevolent parent seeks to transmit cultural norms to her child, whoacquires cognitive skills and develops a capital of appreciation for adopting behaviors that accordwith these norms. Our cultural perspective on the issue of cognitive development provides aninterpretation grid for various results established in the empirical literature. It also permits to identifythe parental characteristics that are conducive to various parenting styles, to child neglect and tochild maltreatment.The second chapter provides a theory of religious prohibition against usury and innovation and itsconsequences on economic activities and occupations. As an economic prohibition from themajority religion is sustained by a threat of social exclusion from that cultural group, it has lesseffects on religious minorities. It then creates an occupational pattern where only the religiousminorities choose activities that transgress the prohibition. By creating resentment against thereligious minorities, this occupational pattern strengthens the diffusion of the majority religion in thepopulation. An economic prohibition is then instigated by the clerics in the majority religion,because it allows them to consolidate their norms and to increase the scope of their control overpopular masses. This work also demonstrates that an economic prohibition lasts longer whenreligious clerics can legitimize secular rulers and when the competition on the religious market isweaker.In the last chapter, we present a microfounded theory of multi-candidate political competition takingan "industrial organization" perspective of politics. The analytical framework is shown to be exibleenough to address several applications on the topics of special interest politics, coalition formationin the legislature in proportional elections, and redistribution under alternative electoral rules
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deWaard, Andrew. "The Museum : textworks, cultural economy, and polytextual dispersion." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/7231.
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The Museum is a theoretical model that aims to render a media-saturated world in which our media have become saturated with media. Corporate conglomeration of the cultural industries has transformed the production and circulation of art; the Museum captures the inter-related complexities of this development in which the notion of a singular text breaks down in the wake of synergistic proliferation. Conceiving of this ‘new society’ requires new conceptions: a model (the Museum), a language (polytextuality), a discipline (cultural economy), and a product (the textwork).
Section I establishes the ‘Geography of the Museum’, starting with its chief architect, André Malraux, who designs the neo-aesthetic foundation of the ‘Imaginary Museum’ (Chapter Three). The post-structural blueprints are then drawn up by Mikhail Bakhtin and Julia Kristeva, giving the Museum its polytextual essence (Chapter Four). The Museum is then physically erected by the conglomerated cultural industries, transforming the Imaginary Museum into a material consumer experience (Chapter Five).
Section II turns to the ‘Display of the Museum’, cataloguing the different ways in which art manifests itself within the Museum. By way of Roland Barthes, the textwork is theorized, a dialogical designation for the type of networked cultural output that now dominates popular culture (Chapter Seven). Case studies of particularly illuminating textworks are then presented, illustrating the polytextual content of the Museum in a multitude of intersecting forms and mediums. A decisively polytextual museum exhibition, “KRAZY! The Delirious World of Anime + Comics + Video Games + Art”, as well as two films – Children of Men and V for Vendetta – are seen as literal embodiments of the Museum (Chapter Eight). The next textwork is concerned with intermedial structure, and focuses on the Wu-Tang Clan’s interpolation of certain cinematic genres, as well as other mediums (Chapter Nine). The final textwork is General Electric, the world’s largest conglomerate. Transformers and 30 Rock, two very different GE products, both explicitly exhibit corporate synergy through polytextuality (Chapter Ten). Over-arching cultural shifts are demonstrated by the Museum: access over ownership, circulation over distribution, dialogue over delivery, digital social text over authorship, and multiple over singular.
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Kennedy, Adam James. "Branded art : advertising promotion and the cultural economy." Thesis, Kingston University, 2009. http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/20258/.
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Faulkner, S. "A cultural economy of British art : 1958-1966." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.284879.
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Loomis, Jessa M. "Moveable Feasts: Locating Food Trucks in the Cultural Economy." UKnowledge, 2013. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/geography_etds/12.
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In this thesis, I consider the emergence of a new generation of food trucks and question their popularity, narration and representation. I examine the economic and cultural discourses that have valorized these food trucks, and pay attention to the everyday material and embodied practices that constitute them. This research is situated in Chicago, where proposed changes to the existing mobile food vending ordinance spurred contentious debates about food safety, regulations, rights to the city and livelihoods. I follow the myriad actors involved in the food truck movement to understand the strategies employed to change the mobile food vending ordinance on behalf of these food trucks. As part of this, I raise questions about what interests are prioritized, and what interests are marginalized especially in light of Chicago’s long history of policing Latino street vendors. I conclude by considering what food trucks can elucidate about the city, the changing economy, and the molding of laboring and consuming subjects.
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Nobuoka, Jakob. "Geographies of the Japanese Cultural Economy : Innovation and Creative Consumption." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Kulturgeografiska institutionen, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-128823.
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What is the role of the consumer in the contemporary cultural economy? Where are culturaleconomy innovations and competitiveness created? This thesis aims to provide tentativeanswers to these questions by focusing on some illustrative examples from the Japanesecultural economy. However, rather than primarily describing firm strategies or industrialdynamics, emphasis is put on the places and practices of users. The thesis is based on a seriesof qualitative studies carried out between 2007 and 2009. In these studies various forms ofinteraction between consumption, innovation and space are highlighted. In the first article,media mix is analyzed. Media mix is the space in which media, images and narrativesinteract: a space where the user contributes to the introduction of new innovation into alreadyexisting concepts, and thereby, plays a crucial role in creating the mix. In the second article,the Akihabara district in Tokyo is analyzed. This is a place where consumers enable hightechnologyand popular culture to merge and where new trends and consumer cultures arecreated. In the third article, the mega event Comiket is analyzed. Comiket is a market foramateur artists involved in Japanese popular culture. It is a space where plagiarism andprovocation by mainstream Japanese popular culture are driving factors for creativity. Thethesis concludes by suggesting that the role of the consumer needs to be further emphasized inresearch on the cultural economy, as many users are active innovators, and create trends andpractices that shape global consumer cultures.Japansk populärkultur har under de senaste årtiondena blivit väldigt uppskattadöver hela jorden. Manga (japanska serietidningar), anime (Japansk animeradfilm) och framförallt dataspel fascinerar, särskilt bland de yngre generationerna.Men var kommer då dessa kulturella uttryck ifrån och vem skapardem? Denna avhandling utforskar den kulturella ekonomins geografigenom att utifrån ett rumsligt perspektiv studera människor och platser somskapar, tolkar och utvecklar nya trender och produkter. I studien har fokusflyttats från etablerade produktutvecklare, företag och industriella drivkrafteroch tar med hjälp av tre separata artiklar sikte på att beskriva och tolkakopplingar mellan det rumsliga å ena sidan samt lärande och skapande åandra sidan. Avhandlingen har en tolkande ansats och baseras på kvalitativametoder som inspirerats av fenomenologin. Det empiriska materialet byggertill stor del på fältstudier som bedrivits i Japan under åren 2007-2009.Den första artikeln inleds med ett konstaterande av hur produktutvecklingsker inom den japanska leksaks- och spelindustrin. Idag är en vanlig metodför utvecklingen av berättelser att de sprids mellan olika former av medier.En mix av olika medier ger starka varumärken och trogna kunder. Samtidigtvisar studien att användaren är av central betydelse för skapandet av en helhetsupplevelse.Det är inte nödvändigtvis lisensägaren, en författare eller ettspecifikt företag som skapar produkternas konkurrenskraft. Istället är detmedia mixens sammantagna upplevelse som spelar en avgörande betydelseför användarna. Media mix möjliggör även att nya medier och berättelserkan introduceras av såväl företag som andra konsumenter.I den andra artikeln analyseras stadsdelen Akihabara i Tokyo som sedanlänge är känt som ett centrum för konsumtion av prylteknologi och hemelektronikmen som alltmer kommit att präglas av konsumtion av populärkulturi form av dataspel och anime-relaterade produkter. Akihabara är ettexempel på ett rum där kunskap och trender förmedlas och sprids; men ocksåskapas, utvecklas och förfinas. Platsen och dess användare spelar en avgöranderoll i dessa processer och konsumtion och konsumenternas handlingarär en grogrund för kulturella innovationer med konkurrenskraftiga kulturella uttryck. Artikeln ger därmed ett bidrag till diskussionen om innovativa miljöermed ett exempel som ligger långt bort från företagsparker och industriellakluster.Till sist, i en tredje artikel, analyseras Comik Market. Det är en mässa i Tokyoför manga där konstnärer i nära 40 år kunnat utväxla idéer, berättelseroch tekniker. Evenemanget har växt till en enorm happening där välkändastjärnor kan sälja sina varor bredvid helt okända nykomlingar. En viktigdrivkraft för skapandet är plagiat av redan etablerade och populära serier ochgenrer. Ofta är berättelserna provokativa och utmanande. Parallellt med seriernapågår dessutom utvecklandet av en besläktad populärkultur kallad cosplay.Vem som helst kan klä ut sig till sin favoritfigur och visa upp sig fördeltagarna. Skapandet och leken på mässan ger efterverkningar inom denjapanska kulturella ekonomin men avknoppas även utanför Japan. Idag finnsmånga liknande mässor runt om i världen där nya konsumenter och kreatörermöts och skapas. Artikeln är ett exempel på den event-baserade ekonominsom kräver spektakulära händelser för sin överlevnad. Samtidigt är det kreatörernasjälva som skapar och driver mässan trots etablerade mediakonglomeratoch myndigheter.På detta sätt ger avhandlingen uttryck för ett angreppssätt inom samhällsvetenskapendär kulturella och ekonomiska processer samspelar. Rumslighetenses som en avgörande komponent för skapandet av kulturella innovationer.Där masskulturen utvecklas, utvecklas också masskonsumtionen. De rumsom artiklarna belyser har därigenom en indirekt betydelse för den kulturellaindustrins konkurrenskraft. Dessutom, vid sidan av storföretagens mångmiljoninvesteringar och reklamjippon, framträder idag konsumenterna sombetydelsefulla innovatörer inom de kulturella näringarna. En av anledningarbakom detta är att värdet av kulturella produkter styrs av tillfälliga faktorersåsom trender och hajpar. Kunskap odlas och nytänkande frodas i utprägladekonsumtionskulturer och bland fans och kreativa konsumenter finns oftakärnan till många framgångsrika produkter. På detta sätt bidrar avhandlingentill förståelsen av samtidens kulturella ekonomi samt dess koppling till rummetoch konsumenten. Avhandlingen argumenterar därmed att forskningenpå kulturella näringar i högre grad bör uppmärksamma konsumenterna somaktiva kreatörer och värdeskapare.
日本の文化経済に関する地理学的考察：イノベーションと創造的消費に着目して今日、日本のポップカルチャーはますます世界中で親しまれるようになった。マンガやアニメ、特にデジタル・ゲームは若者を中心に人気を集めている。日本文化の世界的展開を前にして、西欧諸国の人々が以下のような関心を抱くことも自然であろう。これらの文化的表現は一体どこで生まれ、また、誰によって制作されているのか。本研究の目的は文化経済の地理的現象について、新たなトレンドや製品を生み出し、解釈し、そして発展させる人々およびその空間について探求することである。もっとも、ここでは、定評のある作家・クリエーターや製品開発者、企業、さらには産業動態といった、一般的に文化経済研究において注目される観点に重きを置いていない。本研究を構成する三つの論考において、特定の空間と商取引や学習、創造性、革新性との関係を描き、検証することを課題としている。その方法として、解釈的アプローチ並びに現象学より着想を得た定性的分析を採用した。分析データについては、主に2007年から2009年の間に日本において行ったフィールドワークより収集したものを用いている。第一論文では、日本の玩具およびゲーム産業における製品開発を題材としている。物語や映像を展開する手段として、それらを様々なメディア形態へと配信していくことが一般的である。メディア媒体の混合を通じて、ブランドを創出し、根強い顧客を確保していく。西欧諸国において人気の高い二つの日本のキャラクターを検証して明らかとなったことは、メディア・ミックスの全体性を作り出す際の製品ユーザーの重要性である。その役割は必ずしも製品競争力に直結するようなライセンス取得者や作家・クリエーター、もしくは特定の企業であるとは限らない。むしろ、連結された体験こそがユーザーにとって重要である。新たな映像や物語が取り込まれるにつれてメディア・ミックスは発展する。その強さを促進する原動力はしばしばユーザーの手中にある。第二論文では東京都秋葉原を分析地域とした。この地域は家電製品やハイテク機器の商店が立ち並ぶ日本有数の電気屋街として知られている。近年では、デジタル・ゲームやマンガに関連した商品など、大衆文化の一大消費拠点でもある。秋葉原が知識やアイディアを交換する空間へと変化した結果、流行ならびに新たな文化的現象が創出され、評価され、そして発展していく場となっている。この過程において、秋葉原という特定の空間とその人々こそが重要であり、消費および消費者の諸活動が文化的イノベーションと競争力のある文化的表現を育てる。従って、本論考は、一般的なビジネスパークや産業クラスターの諸研究とは異なる観点からの、イノベーションおよびクリエイティブ・ミリュー論への貢献と位置づけられよう。第三論文ではコミックマーケットを分析対象としている。コミックマーケットは、参加者達のアイディアや物語、専門的技法といった情報交換の場として40年もの間に進化を遂げてきた。著名な作家・クリエーターにとって、本イベントは新たな読者・愛好家へと作品を広めるような開放的な空間をもつ大規模な催しへと発展した。そこで展示もしくは頒布される同人誌は挑発的であり挑戦的でもある。また、「コスプレ」を代表として、その他の多くの文化的現象も見られる。本イベントにおける創造的活動や遊びは、しばしば日本の文化経済に影響を与えるような新たなトレンドの契機となる。世界中にも消費者とクリエーターが出会い、触れ合うような同様のイベントは少なくない。本稿の事例は、大々的な催しを必要とするような、イベントを基礎とした経済活動の一例である。他方で、関連省庁やメディア・コングロマリットとは異なるような、ボトムアップ型で成功的に発展してきた文化経済の制度的催しの一例ともいえよう。以上のように、本研究では文化と経済過程の関係が相互的かつ互恵的となるような社会科学のアプローチを提示している。特定の場とユーザーは、大衆消費が確立され、大衆文化が発展するような空間において、文化的イノベーションを生み出す上で最も重要な役割を果たしている。従って、これらの空間は文化産業の競争力を間接的に左右している。今日、有力企業による大規模投資や高額な展示方法などに続き、消費者は文化経済の鍵となるイノベーターとして認識されよう。その理由の一つとして、文化的商品の価値が流行や誇張された宣伝のような偶然的要因によって決定される点と無関係ではない。これらはファンと創造的な消費者が有する独特の消費文化の中で開花することが多い。本稿が探求してきた点は、この消費と空間、延いては現代文化経済の理解についてである。文化産業に関する今後の研究は、制作プロセスに関与する積極的な主体として、ますます消費者に着目する必要があろう。
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Júnior, José de Souza Muniz. "Girafas e bonsais: editores \'independentes\' na Argentina e no Brasil (1991-2015)." Universidade de São Paulo, 2016. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8132/tde-28112016-103559/.
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Nas últimas décadas, produtores simbólicos ditos independentes têm ampliado sua presença no espaço público. Esse adjetivo passou a funcionar como critério distintivo, condensando modos de intervenção intelectual e política que descrevem e prescrevem estilos de presença na produção cultural. Esta tese tem por objetos o desenvolvimento de um debate sobre editores, editoras, livros e publicações independentes em escala transnacional e seu enraizamento no Brasil e na Argentina. Estudam-se os materiais intelectuais, os agenciamentos coletivos e as políticas setoriais e públicas referentes a esse universo. Discute-se a (re)emergência da noção de editor(a) independente e a inscrição sócio-institucional dos agentes engajados em defini-la, difundi-la, adotá-la ou recusá-la. O objetivo foi compreender que sentidos essa categoria classificatória assume; a que posturas ideológicas, estéticas e políticas ela remete em cada caso; e a que condicionantes sociais podem ser atribuídas as diferenças e semelhanças entre os casos estudados.In recent decades, the so-called \"independent\" symbolic producers have increased their presence in the public space. This adjective began to function as a criterion of distinction, summarizing ways of intellectual and political intervention that describe and prescribe certain styles of cultural production. This thesis addresses the development of a debate on \"independent\" publishers, publishing houses, books and publications on a transnational scale, as well as its specificities in Brazil and Argentina. The intellectual materials, collective bodies and sectoral and public policies on this universe were studied. The public appearance of the notion of \"independent\" publishing is discussed, as well as the social and institutional position of the agents engaged in its definition, diffusion, adoption or rejection. The purpose was to understand which meanings this classification category assumes, to which ideological, aesthetic and political positions it refers in each case, and to which social conditions the differences and similarities among the cases studied can be attributed.
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Min, Eung-Jun. "Toward assimilations of political economy and postmodernism with cultural studies /." The Ohio State University, 1991. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487759055156781.
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Leão, Doralice Soares. "Uma fábrica de mentiras: a (in)comunicação da economia da dança." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2012. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/4475.
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There are many thinkers who state as urgent the need to deal with culture as a productive segment (THOMPSON, 1999; BRIGGS and BURKE, 2004) and there are some initiatives aimed at a very much needed data system (BNDES (National Bank for Economic and Social Development), 2006; SEBRAE (Brazilian Service for Small Business Development), 2008) capable of providing visibility to the role the culture plays in the current scenario of capitalism (BENTES, 2007; JAMESON, 1996; SENNETT, 2006). A new field has been designed, the culture economy, which still does not have great media visibility and, within it, there is another field, which has been referred to as dance economy. However, the silence of the economic journalism and of the cultural journalism has been keeping invisible the economy-culture relationship, as well as the economy and dance relationship. With the purpose of reverting the situation, the paper is based on bibliographic review to focus on political forces that influence the dance economy (MCLUHAN, 2001; OLIVEIRA & CIANCIO, 2007). The hypothesis suggested herein is opposed to the line of thinking that discloses in seminars, meetings, congresses and festivals the status of dance economy because it questions the existence of a productive sector that can actually be conceived as dance economy. For such, the research embodies the communication forms of the events promoted on that issue between 2000 and 2012, and its theoretical ground is the Corpomídia Theory (KATZ & GREINER 2001, 2003) in order to show that the exchanges between bodies and environments around this possible existence of dance economy have been increasing (DAWKINS, 1976) without any critical thinking and, thus, contributing towards the strengthening of public policies for the culture which are incapable of promoting autonomy
Não são poucos os teóricos que proclamam a urgência em se tratar a cultura como um setor produtivo (THOMPSON, 1999; BRIGGS e BURKE, 2004) e já existem algumas iniciativas voltadas para uma indispensável sistematização de dados (BNDES, 2006; SEBRAE, 2008) capaz de dar visibilidade ao papel que a cultura tem no atual estágio do capitalismo (BENTES, 2007; JAMESON, 1996; SENNETT, 2006). Desenhou-se um novo campo, a economia da cultura, que ainda não tem grande visibilidade midiática e, dentro dele, aninha-se um outro, que vem sendo moneado de economia da dança. No entanto, o silenciamento do jornalismo econômico e do jornalismo cultural tem mantido a relação economia-cultura e também a da economia com a dança na invisibilidade. Objetivando colaborar para que a atual situação seja revertida, a tese parte de uma revisão bibliográfica para focar as forças políticas que tensionam a economia da dança (MCLUHAN, 2001; OLIVEIRA & CIANCIO, 2007). A hipótese aqui proposta vai na contramão do pensamento que divulga em seminários, encontros, congressos e festivais a situação da economia da dança porque questiona a existência de um setor produtivo que possa ser, de fato, conceituado como economia da dança. Para tal, toma como corpus desta pesquisa as formas de comunicação dos eventos promovidos com esse tema no período entre 2000 e 2012, e emprega como fundamentação teórica a Teoria Corpomídia (KATZ & GREINER 2001, 2003) para sustentar que as trocas entre corpos e ambientes em torno de uma possível existência da economia da dança vem replicando-se (DAWKINS, 1976) sem qualquer reflexão crítica e, dessa maneira, contribuindo para o fortalecimento de políticas públicas para a cultura incapazes de promover autonomia
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Mansfield, Becky K. "Globalizing nature : political and cultural economy of a global seafood industry /." view abstract or download file of text, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3018380.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2001.Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 143-163). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Minn, Pierre Hong. ""Where they need me": the moral economy of international medical aid in Haiti." Thesis, McGill University, 2011. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=104501.
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This dissertation examines and analyzes the provision of international medical aid in northern Haiti. Medical aid in this setting comprises a wide range of goods and services, including pharmaceutical supplies and medical equipment, clinical procedures, support for infrastructure projects and training for Haitian medical staff. Based on ethnographic research conducted from 2007 to 2009 among the providers, implementors and recipients of medical aid, this study examines the various collaborations and tensions that result from the provision of health resources across marked social and economic inequalities. Beginning with a discussion of humanitarian heroism as exemplified by the lives and work of Drs. Albert Schweitzer and Paul Farmer, the dissertation goes on to describe the activities of a secular U.S.-based health NGO. The third chapter is devoted to the experiences and perspectives of Haitian medical residents at a large, public hospital, situating their lives and work within larger debates about obligation and emigration. The fourth chapter focuses on the issue of coordination, and examines the factors that impede coordination among the diverse actors involved in medical aid, despite unanimous calls for it. The final chapter proposes theories of moral economy, resentment and "ressentiment" as frameworks for understanding the diverse exchanges, values and emotions that constitute, influence and result from medical aid encounters. Rather than expose the shortcomings or failures of international medical aid in Haiti, this dissertation aims to highlight the ambivalence and contradictions experienced by the diverse actors involved in this complex process.Cette thèse porte sur l'aide médicale internationale dans le nord d'Haïti. L'aide Cette thèse a pour objet d'étudier et d'analyser l'assistance médicale internationale déployée dans le nord d'Haïti. Dans ce contexte, l'assistance médicale englobe un large éventail de biens et de services, notamment les fournitures pharmaceutiques et les équipements médicaux, les procédures médicales, le soutien aux projets d'infrastructures ainsi que la formation du personnel médical. Fondée sur des recherches ethnographiques menées de 2007 à 2009 auprès de fournisseurs, de metteurs en oeuvre et de bénéficiaires d'assistance médicale, la présente étude examine les différentes relations de collaboration et les tensions qui découlent de la prestation de services de santé dans un milieu caractérisé par des inégalités sociales et économiques marquées. Après une discussion sur l'héroïsme humanitaire, qui est ici illustré par la vie et les travaux des médecins Albert Schweitzer et de Paul Farmer, cette thèse examinera les activités d'une ONG de santé laïque des États-Unis. Le troisième chapitre est consacré aux expériences et aux points de vue de médecins haïtiens résidents qui oeuvrent dans un grand hôpital public, situant la vie et le travail de ces derniers dans le cadre de grands débats sur les obligations et l'émigration. Le quatrième chapitre examine les facteurs qui entravent la collaboration, pourtant réclamée de toutes parts, entre les différents intervenants des services d'assistance médicale. Le dernier chapitre propose des théories fondées sur l'économie morale et le ressentiment en tant que cadres conceptuels pour comprendre les échanges, les valeurs et les émotions de nature variée qui constituent et influencent les rencontres entre les intervenants de l'assistance médicale, et qui naissent de celles-ci. Plutôt que d'exposer les faiblesses ou les défaillances de l'assistance médicale internationale en Haïti, cette thèse vise à mettre en lumière l'ambivalence et les contradictions vécues par les divers acteurs engagés dans ce processus complexe.
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Winkert, Sérgio Luiz. "Economia solidária e economia da cultura em Foz do Iguaçu: estudo de caso do Ponto de Cultura Maracatu Alvorada Nova." Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná, 2018. http://tede.unioeste.br/handle/tede/4052.
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The capitalist mode of production in the face of all its complexity represents an economic system that encourages competitiveness and promotes inequality. The workers face changes in labor relations or even the extinction of these, as a decrease in jobs due to the Industrial Revolution III or the precariousness of labor itself. In this context, elements such as cooperation, solidarity through self-management and economic action, principles of solidarity economy, arise as opportunities for work and income. The research has as its main axis the foundations of Solidarity Economy (ECOSOL) and its importance in the development of the Culture Economy in Foz do Iguaçu. For this, Maracatu Alvorada Nova, the first Maracatu of Foz do Iguaçu, was chosen as the object of study. Through an exploratory, bibliographical, documentary and field study research. A historical contextualization of the origin and the evolutionary process of the Maracatu Group will be presented in the case study format. This will verify the importance or relevance of applying the ECOSOL principles to the organizational evolution of this cultural initiative, as well as the relationships and articulations used to strengthen this solidarity enterprise.
O modo de produção capitalista diante de toda sua complexidade representa um sistema econômico que incentiva a competitividade e promove a desigualdade. Os trabalhadores enfrentam mudanças nas relações trabalhistas ou até mesmo a extinção destas, visto uma diminuição dos postos de trabalho devido a III Revolução Industrial ou a própria precarização do trabalho. Neste contexto, elementos como a cooperação, a solidariedade por meio da autogestão e a ação econômica, princípios da economia solidária, surgem como oportunidades de trabalho e renda. A pesquisa tem como eixo principal os fundamentos da Economia Solidária (ECOSOL) e sua importância no desenvolvimento da Economia da Cultura em Foz do Iguaçu. Para isso se escolheu como objeto de estudo o Ponto de Cultura Maracatu Alvorada Nova, o primeiro Maracatu de Foz do Iguaçu. Por meio de uma pesquisa exploratória, bibliográfica, documental e estudo de campo. Será apresentado no formato de estudo de caso uma contextualização histórica da origem e o processo evolutivo do Grupo de Maracatu. Desta forma se verificará a importância ou relevância da aplicação dos princípios da ECOSOL na evolução organizativa desta iniciativa cultural, bem como as relações e articulações utilizadas para o fortalecimento deste empreendimento solidário.
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Souza, Carlos Alexsandro de Carvalho. "Megastore: a sociologia de uma empresa cultural." Universidade Federal de Alagoas, 2016. http://www.repositorio.ufal.br/handle/riufal/1430.
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This work had as main objective understanding of the recent changes in the retail book market in Brazil, choosing the business model megastore Bookstore Reading Parque Shopping Maceio, as research object. The choice of model and its methodological approach can be understood in terms of the importance it has assumed in contemporary cultural markets, establishing a new logic of consumption and cultural enjoyment, associating it broader and structural prerogatives grounded in increased access to leisure, entertainment and new aesthetic and symbolic experiences represented by the category creative economy, mobilized by various public and private agents market, which have become enablers of the new relations between culture and the market today, as can be seen. The business model that promotes Reading Library, the megastore, is the main sales channel for books retail in Brazil and has recorded substantial growth in the last decade. One of the most decisive results that sociological analysis that was undertaken here was able to show was the discursive and empirical incorporation of new semantic grammar that involves the production and supply of goods and cultural services promoted by contemporary cultural capitalism. This incorporation and management made cultural enterprises, and in particular the megastores, build and sustain one self-image of cultural equipment, promoting not only the marketing of symbolic goods, but greatly, according to his discursive repertoire, based on the promotion of aesthetic experiences and cultural rights, and is in line with some of the elected and theoretical aspects of the data collected in the survey, mobilized with a view to providing systematic instruments and interpretation of the constitutive dimensions of the research object which was built in this work.Este trabalho teve como objetivo central a compreensão das mais recentes transformações no mercado varejista de livros no Brasil, elegendo o modelo empresarial de megastore da Livraria Leitura do Parque Shopping Maceió, como objeto de investigação. A escolha do modelo e de seu recorte metodológico pode ser entendida em função da relevância que ele assumiu nos mercados culturais contemporâneos, instaurando uma nova lógica de consumo e de fruição cultural, associando-se a prerrogativas mais amplas e estruturais pautadas no acesso ampliado ao lazer, entretenimento e a novas experiências estéticas e simbólicas representadas pela categoria nativa economia criativa, mobilizada por diversos agentes públicos e privados de mercado, que se tornaram dinamizadores das novas relações entre cultura e mercado na atualidade, como se pode constatar. O modelo de negócio que a Livraria Leitura promove, a megastore, representa o principal canal de vendas do varejo de livros do Brasil e tem registrado substancial expansão na última década. Um dos resultados mais decisivos que a análise sociológica que aqui se empreendeu foi capaz de indicar foi a incorporação discursiva e empírica, pelas empresas, da nova gramática semântica que envolve a produção e oferta de bens e serviços culturais promovidas pelo capitalismo cultural contemporâneo. Essa incorporação e manejo fez com que as empresas culturais, e, em especial, as megastores, construíssem e sustentassem uma autoimagem de equipamento cultural, promotoras não apenas da comercialização de bens simbólicos, mas, sobremaneira, segundo seu repertório discursivo, fundamentada na promoção de experiências estéticas e culturais, se coadunando com alguns dos aspectos teóricos eleitos e dos dados coletados na pesquisa, mobilizados com vistas ao fornecimento de instrumentos de sistematização e interpretação das dimensões constitutivas do objeto de pesquisa que foi construído neste trabalho.
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Carvalho, Leandro de. "Economia criativa: acesso e distribuição de bens culturais." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2009. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/9387.
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Previous issue date: 2009-05-27Creative economy is the theme that permeates the discussion of this work. While discussing its definitions, its scope and its size, the attention was focused on two of its aspects: access and distribution of cultural goods. These aspects were chosen based on the tension that was noticed in the cultural production: on the one hand, the music and audiovisual industry with a business model that makes profit, creating scarcity through the medium (physical environment), being controled and restrict; on the other hand, the movement of technology users, especially Internet users, promoting actions that undermine the bases of cultural industry: they make the support desnecessary and the access becomes unrestricted and fast, and change the ways of distribution, through the channels of sharing and viewing of any cultural production, that can be seen using the nearest computer. In light of these events and tensions, the development of the computer is discussed in this research: from the machine for storage only, to the machine of access. It´s also discussed, at this study, the global network as the great diffuser of cultural production, especially for small producers. Finally, it was concluded that the creation of new production facilities for cultural, musical and audiovisual areas reveal an important contradiction: the environments of greatest enhancement of access, innovation, creativity and culture (based on analysis of Rifkin), could be completely appropriated by the cultural industry, taking up the changes in perceptions of the demands. However, alongside this new type of incentive, the global network provides tools in order to completely unlink creation, distribution and access, minimizing any attempt of the cultural industry in the sense of total control of what is produced and distributed as a cultural good. New possibilities for the culture producer were placed and this professional can select and, possibly, depend less on the big cultural industry in order to feed their lives, through their art
Economia criativa é o tema que permeia a discussão deste trabalho. Enquanto se discute suas definições, sua abrangência e sua dimensão, foi focada atenção em dois de seus aspectos: o acesso e a distribuição de bens culturais. Esse recorte foi escolhido pela grande tensão que se percebe nessa produção cultural: de um lado a indústria fonográfica e audiovisual com um modelo de negócio que realiza lucro, gerando escassez por meio do suporte (meio físico), sendo passível de controle e restrição; de outro lado, o movimento de usuários de tecnologia, principalmente internautas, promovendo ações que minam as bases da indústria cultural: tornam o suporte desnecessário e o acesso irrestrito e rápido, e alteram as formas de distribuição, por meio dos canais de compartilhamento e exibição de qualquer produção cultural, ao alcance do computador mais próximo. Diante desses acontecimentos e tensões, discute-se, nessa pesquisa, a evolução do computador: de máquina de armazenamento apenas, para máquina de acesso. Discute-se, também, a rede mundial como grande difusora de produção cultural, principalmente para os pequenos produtores. Por fim, concluiu-se que as novas facilidades de criação de produção cultural, nas áreas musical e audiovisual, revelam uma contradição importante: os ambientes de maior valorização do acesso, da inovação, da criatividade e da cultura (com base nas análises de Rifkin), poderiam ser completamente apropriados pela indústria cultural, aproveitando-se das mudanças nas percepções das demandas. Entretanto, paralelamente a este novo modelo de incentivo, a rede mundial passa a disponibilizar ferramentas para que a criação, a distribuição e o acesso sejam totalmente desintermediados, minimizando qualquer tentativa da indústria cultural no sentido de controle total do que é produzido e distribuído como bem cultural. Novas possibilidades para o produtor cultural foram colocadas em cena e esse profissional poderá escolher e, possivelmente, dependerá menos da grande indústria cultural para geração de seu sustento, por meio de sua arte
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Silva, Eduardo Pordeus. "Políticas culturais e economia da cultura no sertão paraibano: o caso vale dos dinossauros." Universidade Federal da Paraíba, 2009. http://tede.biblioteca.ufpb.br:8080/handle/tede/4392.
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The culture and cultural politics have become considerable topics from the economic point of view, and mainly, from the social development. In this context, the cultural patrimony, particularly, no matter its denomination (historical, artistic, archaeological and paleontological patrimony) or its way of expression (material or non material), deserves the attention from the public politics in a way to excite the local economy, in view of the innovating aspects of the specified way of cultural expression. It comes from the principle in which the acts of the State should focus on the valorization of the human being, excepting the needing of collecting financial resources. This way, the state citizen acts for the improvement or solidification of the public politic which respects and promotes the cultural diversity and the rights to culture. For this reason, we mention topics that need scientific investigation so that to deepen the discussion about the fulfillment of the present Brazilian Constitution, and all the other legal rules that aim the social justice through the rise of culture. In this discussion, it is essential to instigate the new way of economy, especially about the conduct of the cultural patrimony, the reason why the current search, specifically, points out the ideas and actions of the paleontological patrimony Valley of Dinosaurs (Vale dos Dinossauros), located in Sousa, Paraiba, Brazil. It has been verified the integrated ways of the public politics (in particular, those that allow favouring the enjoyment and the sustainable usufruct of this cultural patrimony. Besides, according to studies of this case, it was possible to verify, since a long time ago, the non execution or the disrespect to the laws that foresee the protection of the material patrimony of the search, because of the absence of projects, programs of effective actions for the conservation and valorization of the cultural property, and this, difficultates plans for the tourism and envolvement of the local community and its management, consequently, the aims of human development and cultural citizenship are delayed.
A cultura e as políticas culturais se tornaram temas relevantes sob o ponto de vista econômico e, principalmente, do desenvolvimento social. Nesse contexto, o patrimônio cultural, em especial, independentemente da sua denominação (patrimônio histórico, artístico, arqueológico e paleontológico) ou da sua forma de expressão (material ou imaterial), merece a preocupação das políticas públicas à maneira de aquecer a economia local dado o aspecto inovador de específica forma de expressão cultural. Parte-se do princípio segundo o qual as ações do Estado devem focar na valorização da pessoa humana, afora a necessidade de captar recursos financeiros. Dessa maneira, o ente estatal atua para aperfeiçoamento ou para consolidação da política pública que respeite e que promova a diversidade cultural e o direito à cultura. Por isso, mencionados temas carecem de investigação científica, para aprofundar o debate acerca do cumprimento da Constituição brasileira vigente e das demais normas legais as quais visam à justiça social por meio da promoção da cultura. Nessa discussão, faz-se pontual instigar a nova forma de economia, qual seja, a economia da cultura, particularmente no que diz respeito à gestão do patrimônio cultural, motivo pelo qual a presente pesquisa se debruça, especificamente, nas ideias e nas práticas em torno do patrimônio paleontológico Vale dos Dinossauros, localizado na cidade de Sousa, Paraíba, Brasil. Buscou-se averiguar as formas integradas de políticas públicas (em especial, as oriundas dos poderes constituídos, em todos os seus âmbitos), que permitem favorecer a fruição e o usufruto sustentável deste patrimônio cultural. Ademais, conforme estudo de caso, foi possível verificar, desde muito tempo, o incumprimento ou o desrespeito às leis que preveem a proteção do patrimônio objeto da pesquisa, em face da ausência de projetos, de programas e de ações efetivos para preservação e para valorização do bem cultural, o que dificulta planos para o turismo e para o envolvimento da comunidade local na sua gestão e, em consequência, protelam-se as metas de desenvolvimento humano e de cidadania cultural.
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Lim, Michael Kho. "Pinoy Indie, Inc. : the cultural economy of distribution and Philippine independent cinema." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2017. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/96243/.
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This thesis investigates the cultural economy of film distribution set against the backdrop of Philippine independent cinema. Considered as the business centre of filmmaking, film distribution is typically studied from an economic perspective and traditionally falls outside the remit of film studies. However, the role that economics play in filmmaking cannot be regarded as an exclusive object or subject in the field of business and economics and not of the arts, since film is both a cultural good and economic commodity. As such, this thesis offers a more balanced viewpoint by taking on a humanities perspective in analysing and understanding the complex interplay of culture and economics as applied to Philippine cinema. The project also provides an Asian context to a generally western-dominated approach to the study of film distribution and thereby contributes to the (now) growing literature on distribution studies situated in the larger area of film studies. This thesis employs in-depth interview and case study analysis in addressing the central issue of how the independent sector struggles to access the various film distribution platforms in an attempt to sustain itself. The first chapter positions my research in the field, surveys existing scholarship on independent cinema and film distribution, and sets up the theoretical grounding of this thesis on the cultural economy framework. The second chapter fleshes out the notion of independence in filmmaking and contextualises the study by outlining the historical development of Philippine independent cinema. The third chapter analyses the interaction between mainstream and independent cinema and the current shifting movements happening between the two sectors. The next four chapters examine the film distribution and exhibition practices in the Philippines and how these affect the relationship of the mainstream and independent sectors and address the sustainability issue of the independents. Chapter Four lays out the conceptual framework of film distribution and exhibition as intermediary spaces and maps out a historical landscape of film distribution and exhibition in the Philippines. This is followed by an overview of the film distribution economy spectrum, namely, formal, semi-formal, and informal. Chapter Five explores the formality of the traditional platforms of theatrical and non-theatrical distribution method, while Chapter Six discusses the formality of the emerging distribution and exhibition platforms that utilise new media technologies. Both chapters present the challenges that independent filmmakers face in passing through the layers of gatekeepers in order to bring the film to its audience. Chapter Seven sets out a clearer definition of the semi-formal distribution economy and cites different self-distribution methods to illustrate and support my claim. This chapter also looks into the informal distribution method of piracy and its constructive effects on independent filmmaking. It also explains how technology is changing the role of the audience from being a passive consumer to an active producer to a dynamic distributor. Lastly, Chapter Eight probes into the identity of the Philippine film industry and the role of the state, their implications on cultural or film policy development, and how these elements impact the overall state of Philippine cinema.
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Ferdinand, Gabrielle. "Brand in the Caribbean : a cultural analysis of the regional creative economy." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2017. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/89580/.
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The Caribbean’s creative industries have contributed significantly to the global creative economy having crafted numerous musical genres, birthed countless Nobel laureates and award winning artists, as well as creating the blueprint for the many Caribbean festivals that take place worldwide. Still, despite its successes, the region has yet to realise its full potential. This thesis argues that brand plays a critical and strategic role in cultural production, distribution and consumption, and that it can ultimately further the development of the Caribbean’s creative economy. Focusing on three of the region’s core creative industries – music, festivals and fashion – the thesis uses data gathered from qualitative interviews and document analysis in order to gain a deeper understanding of 'brand', its uses and its influence within the regional economy. The thesis explores the dominant definitions of brand, the process of brand building, the role of the 'metabrand', as well as various themes intrinsic to these, including creativity, value and authenticity. This thesis also explores the concept of Brand Caribbean, by first defining its core features and then examining its relationship with national brands and cultural identities. The thesis also examines the region’s current role within the global creative marketplace, as well as the challenges that currently impede its growth. This newfound understanding of both brand and Brand Caribbean offers a new sociocultural framework within which to evaluate the regional creative economy, and also presents new avenues for the region to negotiate a stronger position within the global market.
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Famiglietti, Andrew A. "Hackers, Cyborgs, and Wikipedians: The Political Economy and Cultural History of Wikipedia." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1300717552.
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Arkaraprasertkul, Non. "Locating Shanghai: Globalization, Heritage Industry, and the Political Economy of Urban Space in a Chinese Metropolis." Thesis, Harvard University, 2016. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:33493323.
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Given the rapid urbanization of Shanghai in the past three decades, how might we attempt to understand the changing meanings, usages, and values of urban space and the built environment, as occupied, lived, and experienced by its residents? In this dissertation, I use ethnography to explore the complex processes of urbanization and globalization in Shanghai – China’s largest and most urbanized city – examining the myriad ways that space orients and even determines the actions, commitments, and everyday sociocultural practices of the various agents and stakeholders involved in this transformation. By investigating how residents, planners, and local officials variously conceive of historic preservation and urban renewal programs, and by eschewing the artificially coherent image of the city promoted by state planners, I paint a more nuanced picture of the specific challenges faced by the populace and their creative methods of negotiation, adaptation, and appropriation in the face of a rapidly changing landscape. My primary case study is the Shanghai’s traditional alleyway neighborhoods (known locally as the lilong: 里弄) through which I investigate issues arising from their restoration and preservation: state discourse and law enforcement, globalization and local heritage, place-making, and aesthetics. What my research demonstrates is how knowledge of the global not only informs but encourages pragmatic residents to "foresee" a different future and voluntarily get involved in the process of urban renewal to enhance their interests. In this dissertation, I develop new concepts such as "gentrification from within," to explain this unique process of demographic change involving capital investment and cultural reproduction, in which the original residents themselves are agents. Also developed in this dissertation are the concepts of "traditionalism as a way of life," and "emancipatory masculinity," which explain the undergirding tension between the traditional belief of homeownership and the economic reality of modern life resulting in unprecedented patterns of social reproduction and familial formation.Anthropology
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Conor, Bridget Elizabeth. "Screenwriting as creative labour : pedagogies, practices and livelihoods in the new cultural economy." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2010. http://research.gold.ac.uk/2642/.
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This thesis analyses screenwriting as an exemplary and idiosyncratic form of creative labour in the ‘new cultural economy’ and specifically, in the contemporary UK screen production industry. Using a critical sociological framework combined with a neo-Foucauldian understanding of work and subjectivity, a series of explicit analytical connections are made in this project, between screenwriting, creative labour and the new cultural economy. I contend that screenwriting, as a form of creative labour which in many ways eschews the term ‘creative’, is an instructive, timely case study precisely because it agitates traditional dichotomies - between creativity and craft, art and commerce, individual and collaborative work - in pedagogy and practice. After tracing the dynamics of this form of creative work in theoretical, discursive and historical terms, I then analyse how screenwriting is constructed, taught and practiced as labour in three areas: ‘How-to’ screenwriting manuals, pedagogical locations for screenwriting in the UK and British screenwriters’ working lives. At each site, I focus on how craft and creativity are defined and experienced, how individual and collective forms of work are enacted at different locations and what implications these shifting designations have. Screenwriting within the mainstream Hollywood and British film industries in the contemporary moment demands particular and complex forms of worker subjectivity in order to distinguish it from other forms of filmmaking and writing, and to make the work knowable and do-able. I follow the voices of screenwriters and those who teach and instruct about screenwriting across the fieldwork sites and analyse the ways in which they calculate, navigate and make sense of the screen production labour market in which they are immersed. The theatrical, mythic and practical navigations of screenwriters in pedagogy and practice that are the centre of this thesis offer an antidote to impoverished, economistic readings of creativity, craft and creative labour in contemporary worlds of work.
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Mazzilli, Francesca. "Beyond religion : cultural exchange and economy in northern Phoenicia and the Hauran, Syria." Thesis, Durham University, 2014. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/10612/.
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This PhD research challenges current scholarly debate on religion and religious architecture during the Roman Empire by offering a new understanding on the role of rural sanctuaries and a new approach on the subject. It re-evaluates the socio-economic significance of rural sanctuaries, and of the society that they represent, to a regional level and in a wider context of the Near East. This research can be seen as innovative because scholarly work on Syrian sanctuaries from the Roman period has, up to the present day, mainly discussed their religious connotations, including their architecture and deities, with no reference to their potential socio-economic significance. Furthermore, these studies have mostly focused on sanctuaries in cities rather than rural centres, and a comprehensive analytical overview is still lacking. This thesis demonstrates that a comprehensive analysis of archaeological, iconographic and written evidence placed within a historical and socio-economic context and landscape can provide us with a different perspective on rural cult centre, i.e. their central social and economic role in their region and within the Near East. The rural cult centres that this study looks at are from the pre-provincial to the provincial period (c.100BC-AD300) from the northern Phoenicia and the Hauran, both in Syria. Their location at cross points between neighbouring and more distant cultures makes these areas an interesting and revealing object of study to fully comprehend the social significance of rural cult centres and the connections of the study areas with other cultures. Furthermore, both study areas present direct and indirect evidence of economic activities associated with rural sanctuaries. The central socio-economic role of rural cult centres is argued because of the following aspects revealed in this study. They are: their independency from the nearby cities and from political authorities that controlled the study areas, the plurality and diversity of worshippers, their economic self-sufficiency and their organization (with personnel in charge of temple’s administrative and economic affairs), and the connections of the society of the study areas with distant cultures of the Near East.
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Symons, Alex. "Mel Brooks : cultural industries, survivability, and the economy of prolonged adaptation, 1949-2007." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.546466.
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Kedzierski, Maciej. "The globalising of Chinese as a foreign language : a cultural political economy account." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2016. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.707713.
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Souza, Marizélia Ribeiro de. "Quanto vale o show? O papel da profissionalização e do talento no rendimento do trabalho em atividades culturais no Brasil." Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2018. http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/8455.
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This paper aims to analyze the role of professionalization and the job market talent in culture in Brazil. Therefore, the data is obtained from 2010 Census and the selected courses are those that apply specific skills test, that composes the list of the upper level courses in the Census. These tests are used as a proxy to the talent of the cultural field workers. When verifying the probability determinants that a worker put its labor force to the cultural activities, in exclusive or partial time, or other productive activities, it is observed that having a specific degree on the cultural department tends to increase their incomes, especially to those who work entirely with artistic activities. In addition to the specific training, there are other factors that cannot be observed which influence the insertion and improves the income of the workers in the culture segment, such as the talent. In this paper, it is used an Oaxaca analysis (1973), with the aim to measure this variable. Therefore, the graduation courses in the culture field that require specific skills test are used as proxy.
O presente trabalho tem como objetivo analisar o papel da profissionalização e do talento no mercado de trabalho em cultura no Brasil. Para tanto são extraídos dados do Censo 2010 e, os cursos selecionados são aqueles que aplicam uma prova de habilidades específicas, que compõem a lista de formação dos cursos de nível superior no Censo. Estes testes são utilizados como uma proxy para talento dos trabalhadores do campo cultural. Além da formação específica, existem outros fatores não observáveis que influenciam na inserção e numa melhora do rendimento de trabalhadores no segmento de cultura, dentre eles, o talento. Ao verificar os determinantes da probabilidade de que um trabalhador volte sua força laboral para atividades culturais, em tempo exclusivo ou parcial, ou demais atividades produtivas se observa que ter uma formação específica no setor cultural, tende a aumentar seus rendimentos, sendo esse efeito maior para aqueles que trabalham integralmente com atividades artísticas. Na presente dissertação, é utilizada uma decomposição de Oaxaca (1973), com intuito de mensurar essa variável.
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Smith, Rachel May. "Sounds Like a Plan: Evaluating Cultural Plans." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1281551226.
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Smith, Rachel May. "Evaluating the Cultural Plan of Austin, Texas." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2013. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc407737/.
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This is a concurrent, mixed methods study of the impacts of Austin, Texas’s cultural plan, CreateAustin. In the study, trend analysis and a t-test were used to examine variables before and after the cultural plan was in place. At the same time, interviews with cultural planners were used to uncover other effects. My research addresses a gap in the literature between understanding the desired and actual outcomes of a cultural plan. Cultural plans are being developed by many communities in an effort to attract creative workers but they are rarely evaluated. Evaluation using a mixed methods approach is necessary to capture all the outcomes of a cultural plan, rather than the limited scope of impacts that are captured by qualitative or quantitative analyses alone. My analysis of the quantitative variables showed some significant differences between when the plan was in place and the years prior to its creation. Interviews with key stakeholders revealed the formation of new networks as a powerful outcome of the planning process. The results allowed me to gauge the overall impact of CreateAustin and make some observations about the cultural planning process in general, as well as uncover new directions for future research.
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Al, Shama Nada. "Sustainability of the Dubai model of economic development." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2014. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/sustainability-of-the-dubai-model-of-economic-development(c44d8b48-49eb-4021-9004-4ca91a41a6e0).html.
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Dubai’s rapid double-digit economic growth was severely challenged by the global financial crisis of 2007, which raised many concerns questioning the sustainability of the Dubai model of economic development and the viability of the emirate’s economic managerial practices. Although the economic landscape of Dubai has experienced a significant transformation over the last two decades, from a basic traditional economy of US $17.9 billion in 2001 to a diversified non-oil dependent economy of US $ 86.7 billion in 2012, there are few convincing empirical academic studies to assess and explain the Dubai model of economic development. This doctoral research provides a crucial assessment of the Dubai model in light of its political and socio-cultural contexts. For this purpose, a multidisciplinary theoretical framework that stems from the literature of economic geography, cultural economy and managerialism, has been designed in order to critically interpret the mechanism of the emirate’s economic practices in today’s global capitalism. This involves a methodological approach based on the study of narratives and performance to explain Dubai’s narratives and macro-economic performance. The multidisciplinary theoretical framework adopted is useful in analysing the Dubai model as an alternative to the discipline of mainstream economics, which ignores cultural and social dimensions and conditions that not only influence but also shape a given economic landscape. The research was undertaken by analysing a wide range of data, including intensive macro-economic statistics, financial and economic reports, international and local press, as well as conducting empirical in-depth elite interviews with fifty-six key stakeholders in the economy of Dubai: senior government officials, representatives of financial institutions, senior managers in the private non-financial sector, and academics. The research findings reveal that although the political and socio-cultural contexts naturally support Dubai's economic model, institutional and managerial problems were also exposed following the global financial crisis and the property shock of 2007. Dubai represents a financialized economy in which the government has adopted a hybrid model of government-driven developments and corporate managerial features within an environment that encourages commercial liberalism and market capitalism. However, despite this financialized economy, tensions remain in Dubai's pursuit of these goals. Finally, the research stresses the need for appropriate government mechanisms to foster oversight over economic performance and long-term sustainable economic development.
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Byrom, Christopher L. "Dismantling the Afghan Opiate economy : a Cultural and Historical Policy Assessment, with Policy Recommendations /." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2005. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion/05Sep%5FByrom.pdf.
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Thesis (M.A. in National Security Affairs (Defense Decision-Making and Planning))--Naval Postgraduate School, September 2005.Thesis Advisor(s): Jeanne Giraldo, Thomas H. Johnson. Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-178). Also available online.
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Olds, Kristopher N. "Pacific Rim mega-projects and the global cultural economy : tales from Vancouver and Shanghai." Thesis, University of Bristol, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.295084.
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Jackson, Jason Bertroy Riley. "The political economy of foreign investment : constructing cultural categories of capitalist legitimacy in India." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/81636.
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Thesis (Ph. D. in Political Economy)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2013.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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The dissertation addresses a fundamental question in the social sciences: Where do economic interests and policy preferences come from? How do interests and preferences shape political and economic behavior, government policy, firm strategy and ultimately market outcomes? The dissertation addresses this question by analyzing political contestation over foreign direct investment (FDI) rules in India from the late colonial period through the present (1870-2012). This dissertation employs extensive archival and field research to find that conventional theoretical approaches that naturalize economic interests and deduce economic actors preferences from their socio-economic structural position are inadequate to explain the dynamic shifts in government and firm preferences towards FDI over the course of India's modern economic history. Attention must be paid to the ways in which actors make sense of the complexities of their institutional environment. The dissertation argues that preferences are shaped by cognitive and cultural schemas: rationalized causal ideas imbued with historically salient social meaning. These schemas posit causal and historically meaningful means-ends relationships between the role of domestic and foreign firms and industrial development outcomes. They serve as interpretive frameworks through which business, state and societal actors make sense of the complexities of the economy. This dissertation assesses the sources of FDI policy preferences by identifying the origins and evolution of rationalized causal ideals that posit the relative costs and benefits of foreign and domestic capital and the cultural meaning systems in which these causal ideas are embedded. However, it argues that there are competing theories and causal ideas at play in the scholarly, policy and managerial discourse that shape actors' beliefs about the economic effects of FDI. This creates significant uncertainty and opens the door for massive contestation between rival actors wielding competing causal ideas. However, there is a second cultural element of preferences that receives less analytic attention in the literature. This cultural dimension plays a complementary role by providing the socially meaningful and historically rooted cultural symbols, narratives and tropes that are essential for motivating human action. The stress on agency and the identification of this cultural dimension and the role it plays in preference formation, political contestation and policy and market outcomes is an important contribution this dissertation seeks to make.
by Jason Bertroy Riley Jackson.
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Hauf, Felix [Verfasser]. "Beyond Decent Work : The Cultural Political Economy of Labour Struggles in Indonesia / Felix Hauf." Frankfurt am Main : Campus Verlag, 2016. http://www.campus.de/home/.
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Krause, Elizabeth Louise. "Natalism and nationalism: The political economy of love, labor, and low fertility in central Italy." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/284074.
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This dissertation examines the cultural politics of family-making in Italy, where women in the 1990s reached record-low fertility rates. Gender, kinship, ethnicity, race and nationalism have become foci of social and individual conflicts in the context of Italian reproductive patterns. This interdisciplinary project, based on 22 months of anthropological fieldwork, explores the effects of this demographic transition on the everyday lives, emotions, memories and family-making practices of women and men in one historic central Italian comune (county) in the Province of Prato. Located in a rural-industrial region of Tuscany, individuals there recount the shift from a peasant agricultural economy based on sharecropping and straw weaving to an urban industrial economy based on rag regeneration and textile production, and link this to the ongoing "crisis" in the patriarchal family. It examines relations between productive and reproductive labor from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, and offers a historical corrective to scholarship on globalization. Integrating methods from sociocultural, linguistic and historical anthropology, this ethnography contributes to the understanding of fertility decline in a way that analyses of aggregate statistics alone cannot: namely, it reveals how ideologies about class and gender create social identities that lead couples to make small families. Influenced by feminist anthropology and political-economic approaches, the project places attention on power relations associated with old and new meanings of domicile labor, social space, marriage, patriarchy as well as parenting; a persistently intense role of motherhood is connected to the "culture of responsibility." Discourse analysis is used to examine demography narratives, which depict the very low birthrate as "irrational" and as a "problem." In the context of immigration into Europe, such scientific authority enables elite racism and sneaky pronatalism. Hence, this research participates in the movement of scholars committed to critical population studies and, as such, adds much-needed depth to global debates about changing family dynamics, population politics and women's status.
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Leth, Malin, and Basil Al-Ali. "How wellbeing economic projects help contribute to a paradigm shift : Altering the path to a Wellbeing Economy." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-43765.
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This study aims to look at the processes used when creating wellbeing economic projects to further understand what key themes there are. It applies Path-Dependency theory, consisting of Path-Dependence and Path-Creation to see if the chosen aspects are relevant to creating wellbeing projects and altering the path from the Anthropocene. Analysis is conducted on 45 implemented wellbeing economic projects from the Wellbeing Economy Alliance. After formulating questions based on this, interviews are carried out with ten experienced wellbeing leaders to gain a deeper understanding of what could be learned from their experiences of success and failure within wellbeing projects. The main findings of the study show that to effectively alter the path, power should be dispersed between as many people as possible, people are driven by a larger vision than specifics and it is essential for governments and the private sector to communicate with people to understand what they value in regards to wellbeing.
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Sears, Jonathan Michael. "Deepening democracy and cultural context in the Republic of Mali, 1992-2002." Thesis, Kingston, Ont. : [s.n.], 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1974/862.
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Hammarlund, Tim, and Viktor Sjunnesson. "Where do we draw the line? : how far different cultures are willing to adopt the concept of the sharing economy." Thesis, Högskolan Kristianstad, Fakulteten för ekonomi, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-19689.
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In the recent decades a new type of economic system based on collaborative consumption has increased in popularity. The new cost competitive model challenges the traditional business model that has fueled the hyper consumption, which the 20th century is known for. This research focuses on how national cultures impact the development of this new economic system, in order to understand how much people of different cultures are willing to share. A conceptual model was created to try to understand cultural influence on sharing. Hofstede’s cultural dimensions have been used to measure and compare the empirical data, that was collected through five focus groups representing four different countries: Sweden, France, China and United States. Out of the six cultural dimensions, it was found that the indulgence dimension together with power distance might influence people’s willingness to share. Indulgence was also found to explain socialization as a motivational factor together with power distance and long-term orientation. In conclusion, four different sharing sectors were analyzed, and it was found that transportation and clothing was considered shareable, disregarding national culture. Accommodation might be dependent on national culture since the focus groups that were supposed to be indulgent showed resistance to share, while the restraint groups showed a greater willingness. Technology was not considered shareable by any group. Furthermore, three motivational factors, that might be depend on national culture, was identified. These are environment, socialization and technology. An additional four motivational factors were identified, but these might be independent of national culture. These four are personal, economical, trust/safety and convenience. Lastly, additional findings showed that similar genders have similar willingness to share across cultures which makes it a topic of interest for future research.
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Smith-Morris, Carolyn 1966. "A political economy of diabetes, pregnancy, and identity in the Gila River Indian Community." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/279885.
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More than half of all Pima Indians over age 35 have Diabetes Mellitus and prevalence rates continue to rise; this despite billions of dollars spent every year on research and prevention activity by the National Institute of Health, the American Diabetes Association, and the Indian Health Service nationwide. Because of the many health problems which can occur in conjunction with uncontrolled diabetes, including heart disease, kidney disease, neuropathy, retinopathy, and depression, the insidious or symptomless nature of this disease creates an urgent need for early detection, prevention, and effective treatment. Several anthropological studies of Native Americans have been conducted over the last century, but few have focused on Native American understandings of and response to diabetes, particularly its sometimes "latent" quality, as in gestational diabetes which "goes into remission" after childbirth. Biomedical concepts such as risk, prevention, disease latency, and genetic predisposition or heritability are critical to the prevention of many chronic illnesses, but do not translate well or effectively across cultural lines. This dissertation presents a focused ethnography examining this process of integration between Native American and biomedical health models at the Gila River Indian Community, particularly around the issue of diabetes. Because diabetes is a complicating factor in pregnancy and childbirth due to fetal stress, high birth weight, and necessitated cesarean-section deliveries, and due to the relationship between gestational diabetes and the subsequent health of both the mother and infant, pregnant women are the focus of this research.
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Hyvönen, Katariina. "Suvilahti - from cultural quarter to the engine of economic growth? : Exploring understandings of creativity in Helsinki, Finland." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Kulturgeografiska institutionen, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-118714.
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This study explores different understandings of culture and creativity in the Finnish urban policymaking. It focuses on the development project of Suvilahti, an old power plant that is transformed into work spaces of cultural producers. As a theoretical background it uses different approaches to culture-led urban development and asks whether a ‘creative policy gap’ exists in Helsinki’s cultural policymaking. By analysing the City of Helsinki’s strategies in the field of cultural policy and semi-structured interviews with a sample of cultural producers, the study finds that a ‘creativity gap’ exists between the understandings of different actors. While planners’ understanding is characterized by the neoliberal understanding of creativity, cultural producers mainly understand creativity through the value of cultural democratization. The study calls for a wider understanding of culture in urban policymaking that recognizes creative activities’ potential also in bringing well-being to the society and understands culture’s intrinsic value.
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Yun, Kyoim. "Performing the sacred political economy and shamanic ritual on Cheju island, South Korea /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2007. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3278198.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. Folklore and Ethnomusicology, 2007.Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-09, Section: A, page: 4015. Advisers: Richard Bauman; Roger L. Janelli. Title from dissertation home page (viewed May 7, 2008).
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Tsai, Hui-Ju. "Creative industries policy in Taiwan : the effects of neoliberal reform." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2018. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/36207.
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Since 2002 Taiwan has transformed its cultural policy, following the lead of the UK's creative industry discourse in particular and neoliberal policy regimes in general. This thesis investigates the processes through which neoliberal thinking shaped changing cultural policy and the impact this has had on cultural workers and practices in Taiwan s cultural landscape. I examined policy making documents and interviewed a range of involved actors, including government officials and cultural workers to learn more about the policy process and its impact. The research argues that the creative economy has heavily influenced the development of cultural policy discourse and generally failed to promote the public interest in Taiwan. The results of neoliberalisation have been embodied in several salient characteristics such as the privatisation of public space, marketisation of public subsidy and investment, commercialisation of higher education, and flexibilisation of cultural labour market. I argue that cultural policy needs to be reshaped to represent the public interests and diversity of our cultural landscape.
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Wiegratz, Jörg. "The cultural political economy of neoliberal moral restructuring : the case of agricultural trade in Uganda." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2011. http://opus.bath.ac.uk/28802/.
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Neoliberal reforms in Africa aim to create and consolidate market societies. Such restructuring targets not just economy, but also polity, society and culture. While the economic and political repercussions of neoliberalism have been studied extensively, neoliberalism as a cultural programme has received less attention. This thesis therefore analyses the cultural political economy (hereafter: ePE) of embedding neoliberalism in a country via a restructuring of the prevailing norms, values, orientations and practices (NVOPs). It is argued that the reforms have to undermine pre-existing non-neoliberal NVOPs among the population, and foster NVOPs that are in line with neoliberal ideology and its goal of market society. Particularly noteworthy is the attempt to change moral norms of behaving and relating to each other. To examine how this process works and what is political about it, Uganda, which is regarded as the African country that has adopted neoliberal reforms most extensively, has been selected as the case study. The thesis uses mainly a moral economy (ME) approach to analyse the process of moral restructuring since 1986, when the 1981-86 guerrilla war ended and the current ruling party, the National Resistance Movement, rose to power. It investigates how the reforms have changed the ME of agricultural trade in greater Bugisu in eastern Uganda. It studies which NVOPs were promoted by the reforms and how these have interacted with and reshaped the prevailing NVOPs. It also analyses the link between moral economy and political economy aspects in the process. The research tracks, explains and interprets the changes in the NVOPs by exploring people's experiences, views and interpretations regarding the changing ME of trade. The relationships between people's orientations, motivations, actions, justifications and explanations and the respective action context are also explored. The research draws on about 180 individual and group interviews which were held between October 2008 and March 2009. These interviews were complemented by some observations of market trading and attention to news and debates in newspapers and periodicals. The key finding is that the reforms and their effects have negatively affected the trade relationships and practices between smallholder farmers and traders. Liberalised market transactions were characterised by higher levels and changing forms of 'malpractice', and a modification of their moral underpinnings. There was a significant level of dishonesty, intimidation, violence, corruption, riding the system, and a specific way to view and act upon, i.e. exploit the vulnerability of other human beings, and harm them in the process. Practices based on other regard, honesty, fairness, cooperation and long-term considerations came under pressure. Overall, the thesis offers a field research-based analysis of (i) the ePE of neoliberal reform, (ii) the rise of the neoliberal ME to relative dominance in a specific locality and the implications thereof for the people affected by the process, and (iii) the moral properties of neoliberal capitalist markets in the study area. The thesis concludes with a discussion of the implications of the work for the debate about neoliberalism, market society and ME in Uganda and beyond.
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Mbaye, Jenny F. "Reconsidering cultural entrepreneurship : hip hop music economy and social change in Senegal, francophone West Africa." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2011. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/201/.
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The increasing interest in the cultural economy is part of an attempt to invent new industrial development strategies that comprises a capacity to transform locations. In policy-making, the cultural economy is commonly framed from an economic perspective that salutes the role of the cultural economy and the dynamics of entrepreneurship in processes of urban and regional developments. Moreover, explorations of cultural economy and entrepreneurship are mainly represented by studies of Europe and North America. This thesis departs from such a normative perspective, and critically examines the links between a situated music economy, its cultural entrepreneurs and social change in West Africa. The empirical investigation of West African hip hop musical practitioners is framed by the notion of “community of practice”. The situated practices of these cultural workers and their music production ecology are investigated – methodologically – from a grounded perspective in order to grasp the originality of their materiality and aesthetics. The empirical focus of this thesis research is Dakar, one Francophone West African urban locale, which is contrasted with the ‘test case’ site of Ouagadougou. The case study locations are ‘experientially situated’, and over seventy semi-structured interviews were conducted with a range of participants both directly and indirectly involved in the hip hop music economy. Underpinning this research is the starting point that using “community of practice” as a conceptual framework offers a theoretically informed empirical basis for situating cultural entrepreneurship in the context of the West African music economy. In response, this thesis introduces the transcultural dimension of Hip Hop to frame its radical culturalisation of the West African music economy. This is done by singling out the political, social and theoretical significance of how hip hop entrepreneurship has become a force to be reckoned within social change in Francophone West Africa: this is a significant contribution of the thesis.
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Wallace, Alison. "The cultural economy of a housing market : a case study of the city of York." Thesis, University of York, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.441067.
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Smith, Julie K. "The everyday life of food : the cultural economy of the traditional food market in England." Thesis, University of Gloucestershire, 2011. http://eprints.glos.ac.uk/3261/.
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Rapid transformation in the food retail supply system, accompanied by rational economic efficiency, has marginalized the role that traditional markets play in the UK food distribution system. Yet these markets survive, some even thrive, implying that traditional food markets cannot be defined simply in terms of their distribution function. Traditional food markets are part of the surrounding food retail environment and whether they survive or thrive is dependent on wider economic and societal dynamics and change. This thesis links the micro-level activities of traditional food market exchange with how food systems, power structures and consumption practices interact and transform each other over time and space at the macro-level. The research provides the first detailed assessment of traditional food markets in England and examines their contemporary role in fresh food provisioning. The thesis proposes a cultural economy framework that examines how food retail restructuring and changing patterns of fresh food consumption have affected the internal and external spaces and places that support the everyday economic processes and cultural practices of traditional food market exchange. The research employs a mixed methods approach with three inter-related phases. First, the construction of a database of UK food markets identified 1,124 traditional food markets operating in the UK and the empirical analysis, using geo-coded data and more detailed location quotient (LQ) analysis, mapped the geographies and concentrations of traditional food markets and their links with wholesale markets and farmers' markets. Second, data drawn from an email questionnaire survey with traditional food market managers examined the effects of retail restructuring and changing fresh food shopping habits on these markets. In the third and final phase, detailed analysis from case study research in two contrasting traditional food markets, in the North East and Eastern regions of England, examined how the market as place significantly shapes the distributive processes and practices of buying and selling that transform fresh food into the `market product', and also explored the reciprocal relations between the economic and the cultural and between value(s) and exchange. The research findings provide new insights into the traditional food retail sector. The database and email survey analysis reveal how market geographies have been affected by regulatory, economic and cultural change and demonstrate how market and place are entwined in a relationship that has adapted to retail restructuring and changes in fresh food provisioning. Detailed case study analysis reveals how traditional markets are intimately linked with the regions and cities where they are located and how different geographies, histories and approaches to food and farming have moulded the relationship between market and fresh food over time. Although the overall economic value of fresh food sold on traditional markets is reduced in real terms, its symbolic value as `the market product' is not. Historically and culturally, the traditional market may be considered part of a `traditional' food system that aimed to provide fresh and affordable food to all, but the contemporary market is a different place. The findings reveal a marketplace frequently articulated through parallel fresh food trading and shopping experiences at the supermarket and the farmers' market and informed by practical and local knowledge systems. Knowledge systems help define food-provisioning expertise in the traditional food system and the value put on fresh produce depends on both economic and less tangible factors bound up with cultural and moral understandings. How fresh food is assigned monetary, social and symbolic value by market actors' everyday practices demonstrates a `sliding scale' of moral and monetised values as fresh food takes on cultural form The value(s) assigned to fresh food traded on the market fundamentally shape how it performs in the contemporary context and ultimately determine whether its role in fresh food provisioning declines, survives or thrives.
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Truong, Thi Tuyet Trinh, and Sofia Bohlin. "Building Trust In Sharing Economy : An Exploratory Study of Trust-building Processes And Cultural Differences." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för ekonomi, teknik och naturvetenskap, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-38169.
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Fletcher, Rebecca Adkins. "The Social Life of Health Behaviors: The Political Economy and Cultural Context of Health Practices." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/506.
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Relocating health behaviors within a political-economic framework, this article utilizes health behavior and health insurance governance perspectives to showcase the complexities of cultural and economic factors (e.g., job lock, wage differentials, social location, and health insurance status) that influence choices in efforts to mitigate the financial burden of health risk. By exploring the financial links to health behaviors that emerged through ethnographic participant observation and semistructured interviews with community and union members of the United Steelworkers and Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union in a metropolitan Central Appalachian community in 2007–8, this article argues for expanding the health behaviors concept to include a broader array of actions individuals and families take to better their health and well-being in the context of neoliberal shifting of risk management to individuals through increased consumer market-based cost-sharing health insurance disincentives. In so doing, this article argues for the importance of social and political-economic context in health behaviors and in evaluating health policy, including the Affordable Care Act.
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Forsyth, Colin James. "Structural Processes and Local Meaning: Explanatory Models, Political Economy, and Chagas Disease in Tropical Bolivia." Scholar Commons, 2014. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5482.
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This project describes and analyzes explanatory models of Chagas disease among people in a highly endemic area of eastern Bolivia, and examines the role that cultural and structural factors play in shaping explanatory models of this disease. Dressler (2001) characterizes medical anthropology as divided between two poles; the constructivist, which focuses on the "meaning and significance that events have for people," and the structuralist, which emphasizes the relationships between the components of a given society. This project endeavors to synthesize structuralist and constructivist perspectives by understanding the interaction between structural processes and explanatory models of Chagas disease.
The research took place in the spring of 2013, in collaboration with the Centro Medico Humberto Parra, a non-profit clinic servicing low income populations in Palacios, Bolivia and surrounding communities. Semistructured interviews (n=68) and consensus analysis questionnaires (n=48) were administered to people dealing with Chagas disease, and free lists of possible treatments were collected.
Overall, participants largely accepted the biomedical model, but also emphasized the emotional and social aspects of Chagas disease. The consensus analysis procedure indicated a clear shared model of Chagas disease, with coherent social, vector, symptoms, and ethnomedical domains. Furthermore, the model differed between groups based on ethnicity, gender, income and occupation. Significant differences were found in cultural knowledge of the disease based on community of residence and occupation status, two clear markers of how people are tied into the global economy. In the interviews, participants associate their Chagas disease with structural factors including poverty, rural living and traditional housing. They describe substantial barriers to getting biomedical care for their disease despite the existence of a free treatment program in Bolivia. However, participants reported numerous ethnomedical treatments; the study identified 39 ethnomedical treatments for Chagas disease and 66 for its cardiac symptoms.
In sum, explanatory models include structural processes that shape disease, and are in turn influenced by these processes. In Bolivia, although structural constraints limit the scope of biomedical treatment, ethnomedical approaches to the disease are in a process of dynamic growth. The methods used here for assessing the structural component of the explanatory model of Chagas disease can be replicated in future research on explanatory models or political economy of health.