Culture Works: Space, Value, and Mobility Across the Neoliberal Americas - Couverture souple

Dávila, Arlene

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0814744303 ISBN 13 : 9780814744307

Editeur : New York University Press, 2012

Synopsis

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 Dávila 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Arlene Dávila is Professor of Anthropology and American Studies at NYU. Her books include Culture Works: Space, Value and Mobility Across the Neoliberal Americas (2012) and Latino Spin: Public Image and the Whitewashing of Race (2008), both available from NYU Press.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: New York University Press
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0814744303
• ISBN 13: 9780814744307
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 241
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• Personne responsable: non disponible