Cultural Economy and Globalisation

A group of red statues with their arms in the air. Each has a smaller building or Asian figure balanced on his right foot which is also up in the air.Three of the most complex processes of the contemporary era are the increasing importance of culture to the social, the extensive development of the media, and the diffusion of culture and labour across national boundaries. These characterise, respectively, the breakdown of barriers between culture and society; the heightened importance of the media to the entire field of culture and its production, consumption and politics; and the destabilisation of established relationships of time, space and collective identity. This research theme will examine large-scale processes of globalisation, mediatisation and digitisation as they connect with pivotal relationships between creative practices, cultural labour, material culture, social agency and political economy.

Our concern with the conditions of cultural labour engages analytically with the myriad sites at which culture is produced, consumed, distributed, interpreted, contested and used. These sites range from formal places of production (news rooms, publishing houses, museums, and academies of art) and consumption (sports stadia, cinemas, concert halls and licensed venues) to the informal spaces of popular culture and everyday life (subcultural 'territories', home environments, social media networks, and streetscapes). The place of the local and regional within the contexts of globalisation, the importance of transnational modes of intellectual collaboration and dissemination, and the role of digital communication and media networks in expanding horizons of knowledge and culture are of crucial relevance to this concern.

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