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Regional Cultures, Economies, and Creativity - Innovating Through Place in Australia and Beyond (Paperback)
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Regional Cultures, Economies, and Creativity - Innovating Through Place in Australia and Beyond (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology
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Drawing on Australian and comparative case studies, this volume
reconceptualises non-metropolitan creative economies through the
'qualities of place'. This book examines the agricultural and
gastronomic cultures surrounding 'native' foods, coastal sculpture
festivals, universities and regional communities, wine in regional
Australia and Canada, the creative systems of the Hunter Valley,
musicians in 'outback' settings, Fab Labs as alternatives to
clusters, cinema and the cultivation of 'authentic' landscapes, and
tensions between the 'representational' and 'non-representational'
in the cultural economies of the Blue Mountains. What emerges is a
picture of rural and regional places as more than the 'other' of
metropolitan creative cities. Place itself is shown to embody
affordances, unique institutional structures and the invisible
threads that 'hold communities together'. If, in the wake of the
publication of Florida's Rise of the Creative Class, creative
industries models tended to emphasize 'big cities' and the
spatial-cum-cultural imaginaries of the 'Global North', recent
research and policy discourses - especially, in the Australian
context - have paid greater attention to 'small cities', rural and
remote creativity. This collection will be of interest to scholars,
students and practitioners in creative industries, urban and
regional studies, sociology, geography and cultural planning.
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