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Culture Works: Space, Value, and Mobility Across the Neoliberal Americas

2012 New York University ;ISBN: 9780814744291 ;ISBN: 081474429X ;ISBN: 9780814744321 ;ISBN: 081474432X ;ISBN: 9780814744307 ;ISBN: 0814744303 ;EISBN: 9780814744314 ;EISBN: 0814744311 ;EISBN: 9780814744321 ;EISBN: 081474432X ;DOI: 10.18574/9780814744314 ;OCLC: 779828137 ;LCCallNum: F1408.3.D37 2012

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  • Title:
    Culture Works: Space, Value, and Mobility Across the Neoliberal Americas
  • Author: Davila, Arlene
  • Subjects: 20th century ; 21st century ; Americas ; Anthropology ; Arts ; Civilization ; Cultural ; Cultural industries ; Cultural industry ; Cultural policy ; Culture ; Customs & Traditions ; Economic analysis ; Economic conditions ; Employment opportunities ; Labour mobility ; Latin America ; Latin Americans ; Neoliberalism ; Political economy ; Social conditions ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Sociology ; Spatial analysis ; Workers
  • Description: Culture Works addresses and critiques an important dimension of the work of culture, an argument made by enthusiasts of creative economies that culture contributes to the GDP, employment, social cohesion, and other forms of neoliberal development. While culture does make important contributions to national and urban economies, the incentives and benefits of participating in this economy are not distributed equally, due to restructuring that neoliberal policies have wrought from the 1980s on, as well as long-standing social structures, such as racism and classism, that breed inequality. The cultural economy promises to make life better, particularly in cities, but not everyone can take advantage of it for decent jobs. Exposing and challenging the taken-for-granted assumptions around questions of space, value and mobility that are sustained by neoliberal treatments of culture, Culture Works explores some of the hierarchies of cultural workers that these engender, as they play out in a variety of settings, from shopping malls in Puerto Rico and art galleries in New York to tango tourism in Buenos Aires. Noted scholar Arlene Davila brilliantly reveals how similar dynamics of space, value and mobility come to bear in each location, inspiring particular cultural politics that have repercussions that are both geographically specific, but also ultimately global in scope.
  • Publisher: New York: NYU Press
  • Creation Date: 2012
  • Format: 241
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISBN: 9780814744291
    ISBN: 081474429X
    ISBN: 9780814744321
    ISBN: 081474432X
    ISBN: 9780814744307
    ISBN: 0814744303
    EISBN: 9780814744314
    EISBN: 0814744311
    EISBN: 9780814744321
    EISBN: 081474432X
    DOI: 10.18574/9780814744314
    OCLC: 779828137
    LCCallNum: F1408.3.D37 2012
  • Source: Ebook Central Academic Complete
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