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Culture Works - Space, Value, and Mobility Across the Neoliberal Americas (Hardcover)
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Culture Works - Space, Value, and Mobility Across the Neoliberal Americas (Hardcover)
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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.
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