Creative Hubs In Question: Place, space and work in the creative economy
- Submitting institution
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University of the West of England, Bristol
- Unit of assessment
- 34 - Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, Library and Information Management
- Output identifier
- 5940452
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- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.1007/978-3-030-10653-9
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN
- 9783030106522
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- April
- Year of publication
- 2019
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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2
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- Additional information
- Incorporates research conducted by Creativeworks London, a four-year (2012-16) knowledge exchange programme. Virani was post-doctoral researcher for the Place Work Knowledge strand led by Professors Pratt and Gill. Virani co-edited the book, co-wrote the chapter 1 (Introduction) and chapter seven, and contributed chapter 18.
Research Process
Creativeworks London was one of four Knowledge Exchange Hubs for the Creative Economy funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council to develop strategic partnerships with creative businesses and cultural organisations; strengthen and diversify their collaborative research activities; and increase the number of arts and humanities researchers actively engaged in research-based knowledge exchange.
Research Insights
Although creative hubs are now important policy instruments in local economic development throughout the world, what they are, how they work, and how they affect local economies has not been the subject of sustained scrutiny.
The introduction, pp. 1-28, interrogates the taken-for-grantedness of ‘creative hubs’, the conventional ways they have been discussed, the incompatible discursive resources drawn upon, the preference for normative solutions rather than attending to local differences, and the lack of research on user experience of hubs.
Chapter 7, pp. 131-54, examines whether creative and cultural hubs contribute to greater diversity in the creative economy workforce or whether they entrench privilege, focussing specifically on how they are situated in relation to class, gender and race.
Chapter 18, pp. 341-58, argues that the focus on creative clusters, which prioritise market forces based on consumption can have a detrimental effect on localities better understood as neighbourhood-scale creative hubs. It contends that urban policy would be more effective by recognising the many intangible characteristics that make an area and its development, over time, unique.
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