A Modern Guide to Creative Economies

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Bringing together a series of new perspectives and reflections on creative economies, this insightful Modern Guide expands and challenges current knowledge in the field. Interdisciplinary in scope, it features a broad range of contributions from both leading and emerging scholars, which provide innovative, critical research into a wide range of disciplines, including arts and cultural management, cultural policy, cultural sociology, economics, entrepreneurship, management and business studies, geography, humanities, and media studies. Designed to push the boundaries of understanding on the topic, this Modern Guide initially addresses definitional and methodological challenges, before offering new perspectives on the theory and practice of creative and cultural entrepreneurship, and exploring the role of networks and the importance of place and mobility. The book concludes by re-imagining creative economies, raising issues of inequality and justice, care and solidarity, and opportunities for value recognition, while providing new visions of inclusivity, cultural capability, and future development. A timely reflection on the importance of creative economies, this Modern Guide will be a critical read for students, scholars and policymakers working to support and develop future inclusive and sustainable creative economies. Front Matter Copyright Contents Figures Tables Contributors Acknowledgements 1. Introduction to A Modern Guide to Creative Economies Part I Creative economies: challenging definitions and exploring new methods 2. Modular solutions and creative coding: the success of the creative and cultural industries in Australia 3. On GIS and the creative economy: opportunities and challenges 4. Using social network analysis to understand the creative and cultural industries 5. Measuring creative and cultural industries: the statistics job from taxonomies to composite indices Part II Creative economies and entrepreneurship: re-thinking inclusivity and business models 6. Experiences of belonging to the creative economy: narratives from northern micro-entrepreneurs 7. Cultural entrepreneurship: ethnicity and migrant communities 8. Creative entrepreneurship in 2022 and beyond: some implications for higher education Part III Creative economies: focus on networks, place and mobilities 9. This must be the place: creative workers’ evaluations of cities as enabling contexts for work 10. Crafting professionals: exploring the spatial and social mediation of professional networks in craft higher education 11. Emerging spatial relations of artists and art scenes through the lens of art schools in Manchester and Leipzig 12. Exploring contemporary visual arts careers in Italy: education, mobility and project work Part IV Creative economies re-imagined 13. Re-futuring creative economies: beyond bad dreams and the banal imagination 14. Growth of what? New narratives for the creative economy, beyond GDP 15. Inclusive solidarity: emerging forms of resistance within the UK creative economy 16. What is the creative economy – really? Index